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arf88's review against another edition
4.0
Beautiful art by Danijel Žeželj in this. I wish he could have done all of it.
I'm not entirely sure I understood what was going on during most of this, but I enjoyed reading it, and it left me wanting more.
I'm not entirely sure I understood what was going on during most of this, but I enjoyed reading it, and it left me wanting more.
harrietj's review
2.0
Panel by panel, the writing and the art are great, but overall I don't know what's going on and everyone is awful and they all look the same. I literally could not tell any of the characters apart and they all seem like horrible people.
matt4hire's review against another edition
4.0
A good second volume. The flashbacks at the beginning are standouts, and the subtlety the characters gain is great.
rovertoak's review against another edition
3.0
Wow...this is a pretty brutal book, but I imagine the Civil War was in many ways brutal off the battlefields as well as on. A man once thought dead, captured up north, returns to Blackwater and is made sheriff of the town. Blackwater attracts death, crime, sex, and plenty of hot lead exchanges. There are no "good guys" in this book.
ladydewinter's review
3.0
I still didn't like this any better than the first volume. It's very bleak and depressing and there's no character that's even remotely sympathetic. I know people can be horrible, but this paints the kind of picture I don't want to look at. I think what bothers me is that there seems to be no hope at all - no hope and no point. I have the third volume here, so I'm going to read that as well, but I have to say I prefer Jonah Hex.
What I dislike most, I think, is the crudeness. Again, I've watched Deadwood, so I don't shock easily, but would a woman who is as much in love with her husband as Ruth seems to be really say that his cock is the thing she misses most about him? I dunno, maybe I'm too much of a romantic, but scenes like that one seem to be too gratuitous for me.
What I dislike most, I think, is the crudeness. Again, I've watched Deadwood, so I don't shock easily, but would a woman who is as much in love with her husband as Ruth seems to be really say that his cock is the thing she misses most about him? I dunno, maybe I'm too much of a romantic, but scenes like that one seem to be too gratuitous for me.
nharkins's review
2.0
Gave this series one more chance, and it's just more of the same. Occasionally a cool showdown type scene, but overall not worth it.
xterminal's review
3.0
Brian Azzarello, Loveless: Thicker than Blackwater (Vertigo, 2007)
After the nastiness that plagued the first volume of Loveless, did you really expect things to get better? This is the world of Brian Azzarello, folks, and in this world, things do not end well. The carpetbaggers decided to kill two (or, in fact, many more) birds with one stone by appointing Wes Cutter the Sheriff of Blackwater; no one had any idea he'd actually take the job seriously, least of all Wes Cutter himself. But when a series of murders turns up on his doorstep, what's a sheriff to do? Investigate, of course, but the closer Cutter gets to who's behind the murders, the less sure he is he wants to know what's actually going on here. And, of course, this is Azzarello, and things end about the way you expect them to, but then, that's part of the charm of Brian Azzarello. *** ½
After the nastiness that plagued the first volume of Loveless, did you really expect things to get better? This is the world of Brian Azzarello, folks, and in this world, things do not end well. The carpetbaggers decided to kill two (or, in fact, many more) birds with one stone by appointing Wes Cutter the Sheriff of Blackwater; no one had any idea he'd actually take the job seriously, least of all Wes Cutter himself. But when a series of murders turns up on his doorstep, what's a sheriff to do? Investigate, of course, but the closer Cutter gets to who's behind the murders, the less sure he is he wants to know what's actually going on here. And, of course, this is Azzarello, and things end about the way you expect them to, but then, that's part of the charm of Brian Azzarello. *** ½
rovertoak's review
3.0
Wow...this is a pretty brutal book, but I imagine the Civil War was in many ways brutal off the battlefields as well as on. A man once thought dead, captured up north, returns to Blackwater and is made sheriff of the town. Blackwater attracts death, crime, sex, and plenty of hot lead exchanges. There are no "good guys" in this book.
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