Articles tagged with: Comic Book

A comic book that arrived recently to my home (it has just been released) is Mouse Guard Volume 2: Winter 1152, second part of Mouse Guard: Fall 1152.

Continues the story of the mouse guardians, one season later than the first book. And in fact everything is very similar to the first book: Characters (not all, but a lot reappear), ambientation (apart from the logical season differences), situations, and general theme (I won't make spoilers, but could be more varied, truth said).

The drawings are, like the first book, really well drawn. Being "humanoid" mice, the gestures, clothes, and faces of the characters are really well achieved, so is the lighting and color in general.

It is both brigther than the first book (many whites and greys because of the snow) and darker (again no spoilers, but there are indoor fragments).

And once again, you can read the whole comic in one seat, and it lefts you eager for more.

But the next time, please change a bit more the theme before we get bored of it ;)

Posted on 2009-09-01

Legion of monsters is a small compilation of 8 comics about monsters in the Marvel universe.

The 8 tales featured are:

• The Werewolf
• The Frankenstein
• The Man-Thing
• The Zombie
• The Vampire
• Dracula and his daughter
• Satana
• The Mummy

Some of the tales (all feel quite short and maybe lack some more deep) are quite empty, like Morbius (the vampire) or the Werewolf. You read them and feel like "and that's all? nothing else?".

Others like the Man-Thing, the Zombie or the Mummy are more frightening. The one of the mummy is very interestingly drawn, sets apart from traditional comics for the better.

The drawings are good in general (except for Satana which I didn't liked too much), different styles but overall nice results.

As I said, some of the tales are good but others are not very interesting.

Posted on 2009-08-16

Recently I've read (in one night, as usual with most comic books) is Warhammer 40.000: Blood & Thunder.

It's another comic book set in the Warhammer 40.000 universe (like Warhammer 40.000: Damnation Crusade), but this time telling another battle and almost from the oppositve perspective: The ork one.

Specifically, the story is told by an imperial guard captain, who is taken prisioner by the orks (thinking he is a rare snotling).

I won't make spoilers, but I can tell that it is even funny sometimes, and gives an insight of how the ork societies (well, more specifically the clans) work.

The drawings are nice, with the orks being quite detailed and different.

Maybe I could complain of the lenght. While not short, the amount of dialogs is smaller than in other comic books (given that orks speak less and quite badly), so you can finish it in a few hours at most of reading...

Posted on 2009-07-31

I've just finished reading The Walking Dead books 2, 3 and 4.

The comic is still ongoing and a few more numbers will still appear, so time to stop for a while :)

Without entering into spoilers, I will only say that the comic is quite good. As I commented with the first book, it focuses a lot on the psychological aspect and human behavior in a supposed apocalyptic global zombie outbreak, and this volumes make it even more important.

How would people survive on a long term? Will they become crazy? could they adapt and survive? and how? How the main character can protect his family at all costs?

This are just but a few points the book tries to tell. There are some typical movie scenarios too, but either as another situations or more in depth.

The plot has twists, some predictable, others a complete surprise, and in the fourth book there is a sudden but welcome pump of action and changes that has left me hungry for more.

I've noticed some coincidences with the book World War Z, but again, being a long-term series, The Walking Dead goes deeper and gives much more detail.

Highly recommended, specially now that it is back into Amazon stores (book 2 was almost impossible to obtain until recently).

Posted on 2009-06-23

I've just finished reading the first book of The Walking Dead, a comic about a post-apocalyptic zombie themed world.

The story is simple and typical: Somehow, zombies appear and (at least on the US from what I've read so far) seems to have destroyed the civilitation, leaving only groups of survivors scattered. The main character is a cop who, after being shot, awakes from a coma one month later and finds everybody is either dead or turned into a zombie.

Not much impressive about the argument (looks a lot like the 28 Days Later film), but as the author explains, it is like a "zombie film that never ends". Some situations are typical, others more deeply thought, and overall if you like zombie films (like I do), the comic is really nice and leaves you waiting for more (in my case, waiting for the re-stocking of the second volume).

The characters are well portaited and human psychology is well developed, having from psychopats to fearless, overprotective and other common schemes.

The series are not yet finished (4 books are available, each one covering 6 original comics, and the fifth "pack" is being released this year, first as another 6 separate comics and then probably as a fifth book).

As I said, is like a zombie movie, but longer.  The drawings are nice and the undead are frightening (even being at black & white). I want more zombies!!! :D

Posted on 2009-04-20