The Walking Dead Compendium: v. 1

I really wanted to have "The Waking Dead" as my first review on my blog but I would not write anything until I read the trade # 11. Was it out a few weeks after I started the blog so I had to postpone my exam. I finally had the chance to Sky High Comics (my local comic book store) to pick up a copy. This is a comic book and has been operating since 2003. There are no plans to end the series anytime soon, so we'll be reviewing every trade in the future.

The series begins with a small town police Rick Grimes is under attack by a madman with a gun. The man has no relevance to the story, but he gets a shot at Rick. And now hospitalized Rick wakes to a world already over by the undead. He has been in a coma for weeks and has no idea of the horrors around him. Making his way through the abandoned hospital trying to understand the chaos, comes face to face with the zombies. The only option is to flee back to his house to try to find his family and understand what is happening

When he gets home he finds his wife Lori and son Carl no where to be found. As foreign question is caught off guard when the child was hit on the head with a shovel. Rick meets a father and son took refuge in a neighbor's house. The father begins to explain to Rick what has been happening. Can not believe his ears were listening, he was sure his family has died. The man gives a sense of hope Rick saying that the government has said all the survivors to come to Atlanta, where they will be served.

Now begins the true story, Rick makes his way to his old police station and loads up on weapons. Say thanks to his new friends Rick gets into his police cruiser and heads to Atlanta. What about Rick? Do you find your family before it became one of the undead? In order to know what you have to get your hands in 11 trades.

Well to sum it all up in a nutshell, this is the best zombie literature I've got my eyes on. It's a wonderful story well told. It gives you the feeling of what life really be like after the dead rise. There is nothing bad that can remain on this comic. This may very well be the best history of zombies out there. I enjoyed every turn of the page. It made me laugh, mourn, stress and experience more or less every emotion possible. It's so hard to say how much I love this comic.

The illustrations are excellent. With the artist changed so did the characters. It began to look for a different place once took Charlie Adlard. A really great thing is that you can see from the pictures how much these characters have changed over time. Not because the artist changed, but only with all the stress of the characters are under. This makes the comic more credible.

I do not want to spoil too much (do not read this paragraph if you want) but not want anyone to guard. This comic is a story very, very tragic. The things that happen to these people is very worrying and makes you feel kind of sorry for them. Although the fictional characters are you still playing, which is the amount of an asset is comics. That said, if you like horror and scenes of violence, then you'll love this challenging comedian.

There is a television series in the production of "The Walking Dead." From now on there is not much information about it. It is said that the series will start this year 2010.

In general, "The Walking Dead" is a great piece of literature and I recommend it to anyone looking for blood and gore. This is a well-told story, all very nice about this comic is wonderful. I have to give "The Walking Dead" Undead Heads 5 out of 5.

The Boys Definitive Edition volume 1 Review

I became a fan of The Boys, while reading Preacher, Garth Ennis also, and fell in love. I have every issue from # 7 and I've read them all, but I always like to re-read the issues. Then I found this and immediately put it on my wish list for Christmas.

He arrived a little late for Christmas, but it was worth the wait.

First I just want to say that this is a beautiful collection. The art is beautiful inside, printed on nice glossy paper, and if I'm not mistaken is still a little bigger. You really get a feel for the amount of detail that Darick Robertson puts in their pencils.

The writing is spectacular, is Ennis brand you if you're not a fan of harsh language, graphic violence, sexual innuendo, graphic violence, can not allow the super heroes who made fun of, and did I mention the graphic violence that should not be reading this book. However, if you're a fan of Ennis which will be very pleased to find his unique style of sophisticated wit mixed with crude humor toilet is full of pages of this book.

The extras in the book are also quite decent, contains the introduction too the original mark by Simon Pegg, one of the characters is based on, along with Robertson's book that was included in the original brand, along with some new additions. It also includes the original script of one of the topics included in the series and a 4-page short story with the characters in the series. Overall the extras in the book are pretty decent, add a little, but not a whole lot to the book in general.

Still, this is a must for any fan of any work whether Ennis Preacher, his work on The Punisher, or any of his various works of others. This is also a great price for this set, which normally sells for $ 75 (at this time is less than $ 50).

Immortal Iron Fist Omnibus Review

This deluxe edition contains bus the critically acclaimed revival of the Iron Fist character run by incredibly talented writers Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction and David Aja Spanish artist extraordinary. Collects Immortal Iron Fist # 1-16 (divided into two arcs later related: "The Last Iron Fist Story" and "The Seven Capital Cities of Heaven"), the Civil War: taking sides, Annual # 1, Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death, and The Origin of Danny Rand.

I think there is another way of expressing what I felt when reading this book to say that I was truly amazed. Iron Fist, a relatively unknown character of the '70s, one that many see as nothing more than a trick inspired by the influence of kung-fu pop over that decade, is endowed with one of the best comic book series recent years.

First, I think, in order to enjoy this book, there is need for a deep prior knowledge of the characteristics of the Iron Fist and mythology. While the history of packs some surprises regarding the history of theIron Fist legacy, never punishes the new readers. I, for example, while always fascinated with the concept of the character, did not know much more than basic about it. In addition, the first issue shows us a vision of identity is not-so-secret (Iron Fist Danny Rand's) origin story, and for those who want to know more about this bus also conveniently contains "The Origin of Danny Rand" History , featuring the comic that gave rise to the character.

On the history, there really is not much I can say without spoiling some plot. So let's say that from the beginning of this series, Iron Fist is coming off a kind of self-imposed retirement: having abandoned his suit and battles for some time in order to fight the fight of others, Danny feels it is time to take his own load again for reembrace the legacy he has left behind. This is shown in the "Choosing sides" one-shot special, a fresh story with Daredevil and Iron Fist published during the "Civil War" mega-crossover. This story is also present on this bus is a kind of spiritual predecessor to the main series, and I highly recommend reading first. In addition, it makes sense, chronologically speaking.

Now we have the appearance of this book that really scared me: the art of David Aja. From the beginning I realized I was in a very nice visual journey. The beautiful flashback scene that fills the front pages is followed by a prodigious double-page spread showing Iron Fist fighting a horde of terrorists Hydra on a roof in the rain crashing, a scene that made me tremble in fear master Aja art. And that was just the beginning. Aja really took the time to develop innovative troubleshooting page, and is used at all times the various techniques to tell the best story possible from a visual standpoint. The fight scenes (along with everyone else, by the way) are intense and fluid, the characters seem to pop from the pages. Moreover, the overall representation of Iron Fist Aja and his new costume design Danny Rand are simply superb, and the same pattern of cover design came up with is surprisingly elegant.

Which brings me to the only fault I found with the series (other than the fact that came to an end - I really wanted to make it last forever): the inconsistency of art in recent issues. Probably because of the attention to detail and drawings made Aja, he simply could not keep up with the deadlines for some of the ultimate questions. That led to Marvel bring other artists to help the artist complete regular time. This situation reached its pinnacle in the 15 edition, the last of the second story arc, where Aja's art anywhere. Do not misunderstand me: the filling of the artists are great and deliver an explosive and satisfying conclusion. But there is no denying that the series has benefited greatly from having Aja draw to an end. Luckily, he returned to pen and ink wonderful item 16, the latter bringing to life of this collective creative genius of Brubaker-fraction-Aja. But these are all minor repairs, nothing that detract from the overall experience.

Finally, a couple of words about the extras: This book is packed with detailed free-entry as the Iron Fist, which covers its entire history until the end of the stories contained in the bus, covered with alternate, fragments original screenplay for the first question, sketch artists, some comments from David Aja in the character designs he created or updated and cooling exchange e-mail between the creators. Very nice, but given the deluxe treatment of this issue, I could not help feeling that the editors could have added some extras like an interview with the creators (something they did, for example, the Bus Captain America # 1 Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting). But again, these are minor quibbles: there are some extra things fresh packaged here.

To sum it all up, I can not recommend this book enough. The combination of good writing and great art resulted in an artistic work that is right off the bat that exerts some sort of fascination for me. Maybe it's because because of my fascination with real life through kung fu, but I think that would be enough to grab my attention (and this book clearly has a kind of brazen, [crazy, but humor ] ultimately respectful of the martial arts underlying issues - do not expect to see anyone burning the delivery of the Dove chops in real life in the short term). What we really believe is that this book has something to please everyone, either the dynamic and intelligent script, character development, action, kung-fu, humor, mysticism, martial arts-related mythology, pitch black, the wonderful designs etc, nightmares, psychotic spider AT-AT ... In short, this is one of my favorite series of comic time, which was greeted with suspicion at first, but eventually became something like greatness.

Absolute V for Vendetta (Hardback)

I would say, as an assumption that people who buy expensive DC Absolute Editions because they want to do a definitive edition, printed on good quality paper in an enlarged hard cover and slide case, and extras such as introductions, no unused seen art etc, their favorite comics. I know I can do and see from where I sit writing, complete editions of "Crisis on Infinite Earths ',' The New Frontier", Dark Knight, Batman: Hush, the four volumes of Sandman, Ronin, and now V for Vendetta . I shall return to this in the second half of the review.


V for Vendetta is, along with Marvelman / Miracleman, the first of the great works of Alan Moore in the field of comics. Its construction began at the time of Moore's initial feelings of discomfort in the decision of the United Kingdom Conservative Party, and ended when the feelings were merged into outright disgust. Like the best science fiction, the best comics reflect the concerns of the time they were written-and, yes, I am aware that I am gathering a genre and medium and V for Vendetta is political science fiction . In his introduction, written in 1988, Moore is concerned about the immediate future to become a Conservative-led right-wing intolerance as Margaret Thatcher envisaged a British Conservative in the next millennium, and mentions that she is considering leaving the country. In the event, the Conservatives only lasted until the mid-90s and Britain is in the pride, with all its flaws, as one of the most liberal and open. and tolerant of Western societies. If you just limit this to England, I would say, evidence that this is the most liberal, open and tolerant of Western societies. And Alan Moore is still happily installed in Northampton, which he said is located in central England.


However, perhaps surprisingly, V has not really dated at all, and his fear of fascism remains eternally valid. If you doubt that, then I refer you to the effusions racist British National Party. V remains one of the true masterpieces of Moore, erudite, compassionate, deep, obsessive, all enhanced by sympathetic distinctive "realistic David Lloyd's work of art (with its echoes of British black and white comics weekly adventure for children), which is endowed with great clarity and a more subdued color palette. Perhaps even more surprising is that in the era of Ronald Regan, DC published a comic book hero is a psychotic anarchist whose intention is to destroy the existing social order.


Now, as to this issue, inevitably, given the widely publicized dispute between Moore and DC, there is no further contribution of Alan Moore. A pity, since it would be fascinating to read, but, as I said, inevitable. In comparison with other editions Absolute Sandman volumes four are full of them, Crisis on Infinite Earths requires additional books is relatively small, some sketches, a couple of pieces reprinted from Moore, including material and minor printed magazine only Warrior, full-page panels blown pieces, all very nice, but doing little to improve the original material. Not that it matters since this is a beautiful edition of the Alan Moore masterpiece of the greatest comic writer ever. How could resist?

The Darkness: Compendium Vol 1 REVIEW

This book contains 40 issues of the darkness series, and a series of mini series, one-shots and the first issue, if the second series. The story is excellent. One of the more adult oriented titles that do not "kiddify" story lines or underestimate the intelligence of the audience. It is, however, more suited to adult readers, as it is a bit of violence and a lot of sexual innuendo in the book. The book is one of the worst paperbacks around, weighing a total of three pounds, so it's not a book to read in bed before going to sleep unless a weight lifter. It contains the original illustrations in full color on all sides, but without the ads or columns. It is best if you buy this along with the Witchblade compendium, as the two often intersect series so you get a fuller story. The only compendium more reading these compendiums compendiums Marvel images are 40 years on the computer and these compendiums of the image are the most complete compendiums of paper I've seen. (If it comes to printing disc compilations Marvel "books" would be about 15,000 pages each).

Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Review

First, I previously purchased the Captain America Omnibus, vol. 1 HC so I finally can read the great principles of Ed Brubaker stories. While I still have not removed the jacket of this book, this book Spider-Man opened immediately. They have not said shrink-wrap, probably because there was not enough to put around him. This is the largest bound book I've seen in my life!

The union is strong and the colors on the pages come to mind. There's a good table of contents that lists all the topics in this book. This is followed by a great introduction by Stan Lee himself, who gives you some background on how the series of Spider-Man was perfect for that lead to the stories themselves. As you probably know, was started in Amazing Fantasy # 15, which is the first issue of this collection. I have never read so it was a pleasure to finally get the chance. That alone is almost worth the purchase price.

One thing about having a book so great is that you do not have to look elsewhere for the first Spider-Man stories, all are here. I can not wait to continue reading the rest and as you will notice from the beginning, Spider-Man is very neat, there are many boxes on each page title. The work is superb as Spider-Man is an amazing character and really stands out in every scene he is in.

Even if you're not a fan of Marvel, will find all these stories of Spider-Man invaluable for what I do. This is a collection that is unrivaled. All the early stories of Spider-Man is here. Recommended for all fans of comics and for fans of Marvel and Spider-Man is a MUST OWN!

One more thing: If the jaw does not drop when you see the size of this book will be surprised, it's awesome!

Absolute Sandman Vol 1 Review

I got mine in the mail yesterday, and left me breathless. This is a great building girthy of a volume. The black leather cover comes complete with touches raised in the key column and a subtle relief and the reason for blocking the front and back. The letters are engraved in silver, in a subtle and glorious script in the traditional style. There is a point of reading is wide and heavy black silk anchored in the center of the spine. The pages are tightly linked and obviously built to last. This book would be at home in any of the ancient supernatural libraries Gaiman artists draw as well throughout the series.

Much has been recoloring work on this issue, and now I can fully endorse. I have no other issue (and I'm glad I waited to buy), but my roommate does, and comparing my copy to theirs is like comparing new and old photographs. Mine is clear and sharp, and beautiful. His appearance muddy and decrepit by comparison.

If you have never bought an issue of Sandman before, this is the one to get. Gaiman's masterpiece in a presentation that rivals anything I've seen. Totally worth all the money spent on it. Most publishers would just want his masterpieces of this deluxe treatment.

All fans of the graphic novel format you choose for themselves the moment the average "exploded." Watchmen. Miracle Man Dark Knight Returns. The contract with God trilogy. While there can be no correct answer to this question for me is to Sandman, Neil Gaiman literate bright, and very entertaining stroll through fields as diverse as pop culture, Kabbalah, Freudian analysis, mass murderers of Shakespeare, death, and countless other areas. The story follows one of the creatures without end, there are certain forces as personifications of eternal, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Desire, etc., in this case Dream.

The story begins with the dream of capture by the mystics in Britain between the two world wars and take away his release in modern times, following their struggle to rebuild his kingdom, destroyed and abandoned by their absence. While the first issues touch on the edges of traditional comic book universe, Gaiman quickly get this and go into deep thoughts your own text. While one thread binds all the stories here together, a passion play of the rise, fall and self-realization, which is here more enjoyable are the stories. The dream is the guardian of the stories and many who are here. Dream Shakespeare troops make a summer night for the real king Oberon, a man of eternal life, one from a writer who captures and maintains the envelope a muse for his short stories, essays another ruler of hell, and many others .

Nor does this volume stand along his prose, for art can also be some of the most beautiful of all the modern graphic novel, rich and varied. While the book is expensive, the fans will love the large format and starting the collection will quickly realize that the price is only nominally higher than the purchase of individual volumes smooth again. One thing I am sure no one will regret taking this job likely to sit well.