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thegeekyblogger's review against another edition
4.0
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Overall Rating: 4.25
Story Rating: 4.00
Art Rating: 4.50
First Thought when Finished: Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick is probably the best graphic novel that I have read.
Quick Thoughts: I am not a huge graphic novel person mostly because I love words--lots of words! However, Pretty Deadly managed to combine a pretty kick ass story with graphics that told a whole story to me. That is unusual as I am usually left wanting. Perhaps the more horror centric graphic novels are my thing. Who knows!
Part of my Read It, Rate It, File It, Done! Reviews
Overall Rating: 4.25
Story Rating: 4.00
Art Rating: 4.50
First Thought when Finished: Pretty Deadly by Kelly Sue DeConnick is probably the best graphic novel that I have read.
Quick Thoughts: I am not a huge graphic novel person mostly because I love words--lots of words! However, Pretty Deadly managed to combine a pretty kick ass story with graphics that told a whole story to me. That is unusual as I am usually left wanting. Perhaps the more horror centric graphic novels are my thing. Who knows!
Part of my Read It, Rate It, File It, Done! Reviews
rosekk's review against another edition
5.0
The drawing are beautiful, and the colours amazing. The story had the familiar air of a fairy tale or fable, but was fairly unique in its contents. The characters were strange and fascinating. The pace was fast. It seemed as though there was enough story in this one volume to be stretched across several volumes if the creators had been so inclined. I'm interested to see where the rest of the tale goes.
indecisivespice's review against another edition
5.0
WOW. I am speechless; the art is magnificent and DeConnick's storytelling is literally and figuratively otherworldly. Very excited to read the next volumes.
gohawks's review against another edition
2.0
The plot is original, to be sure. It's kind of an East of West meets Sandman vibe. Riots' art is a beautiful Japanese manga painting melange. But the characters are all archetypes by necessity, so there is a lot of distance created because of this. The result is interesting, but not at all engaging. Think a comic of the Tolkien's Silmarillion.
dominicanbookworm's review against another edition
3.0
I'm not sooo crazy about the art, but I'm sososo interested in where this is going.
(Read on Nov 1st, 2013)
(Read on Nov 1st, 2013)
ambercristofaro's review
4.0
I just finished this one so I'm still processing. I've read a lot of other reviews that complained about the story being too slow but I felt the pacing was just right. It was slow enough for me to absorb what was going on and think about the symbolism on the page without losing interest. There is a lot of back and forth dynamics I enjoyed in the storyline.
The artwork is fantastic! Set the tone and mood of the story perfectly. Overall, I enjoyed it. There is definitely a specific audience I would recommend it to though. I see the Gaiman parallel many have drawn.
The artwork is fantastic! Set the tone and mood of the story perfectly. Overall, I enjoyed it. There is definitely a specific audience I would recommend it to though. I see the Gaiman parallel many have drawn.
octavia_cade's review
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
4.0
The first of the Pretty Deadly comics, which I first read a couple of years back and have since bought for myself, because they're awesome. At this point the series is a weird western, which is not my preferred genre but which really works here: Deathface Ginny, the daughter of Death, can be summoned by singing a rhyming song which calls her forth in her role as the Reaper of Vengeance. Westerns are generally pretty good at vengeance, and the art reflects this: a mix of fantasy and reality that I find enormously appealing.
It honestly can take a while to sort out what's going on in these comics, as the storyline is fairly complex. The first real hint to that is that the whole is being narrated by a dead rabbit, after half its face has been shot off. The rabbit's talking to a butterfly, and I remember when I first picked this up wondering what the hell I'd stumbled across. The whole thing is just plain strange, but it's also original and weirdly - and I use that term deliberately - compelling.
It honestly can take a while to sort out what's going on in these comics, as the storyline is fairly complex. The first real hint to that is that the whole is being narrated by a dead rabbit, after half its face has been shot off. The rabbit's talking to a butterfly, and I remember when I first picked this up wondering what the hell I'd stumbled across. The whole thing is just plain strange, but it's also original and weirdly - and I use that term deliberately - compelling.
panthor's review against another edition
3.0
Hmmm. not sure what to think about this one. An interesting premise, but in this first installment it didn't reveal much. I'm on the fence about continuing this series.