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Dead@17: Ultimate Edition by Josh Howard

sebarose's review against another edition

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1.0

Buffy rip off, but boring. Also, not a fan of 'fantasy girl' drawings (short skirts, underage girls wearing not but underwear, the like).

thatjasonpace's review against another edition

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4.0

The first three of the four collected stories are pretty great. A nice cohesive narrative. The fourth story goes off the rails a bit and doesn't make much sense until you get toward the end, and even then it feels out of place. If you buy this collection, I recommend just reading the first three (12 chapters) and then stopping.

brandinh's review against another edition

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1.0

I basically had to force myself to finish this book, which took two days to read whereas I usually speed through graphic novels in a hour or so. Tons of fan service (scantily clad teenage girls abound). So many of the characters were barely indistinguishable save for hair and eye color. I know it's common to portray women in comics this way, but it is so disheartening to see teen girl bodies drawn in such a way that is practically humanly impossible (extremely tiny waist, paired with curvy booty and ridiculously perky, and for some reason pointy, boobs). The religious overtones were WAY too heavy-handed. I read some other reviews that criticized the story of being prejudicial against the Muslim faith, while I don't know enough to evaluate whether or not this is true, I'll add it to my list of ?!?! about this title. All in all, this was a fail and though I originally purchased it for my high school library, I will be returning it to the used bookstore where I picked it up.

bethb3's review against another edition

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3.0

It was good...more religious than it sounded in the description. Also, way more questionable content than expected. Very scantily-clad girls at points. Who is the audience for this book???

brea's review against another edition

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5.0

in spite of the christian nature of this comic, it was actually pretty good. mix buffy with hack/slash and a lot of short shorts and you get dead at 17.
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