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bengriffin's review
4.0
Dark and mythic with some truely horrific moments and cliffhangers. The artwork is beautiful and Carey's writing is spot on. Definitely worth reading.
magnetgrrl's review
3.0
I bought the first short trade paperback collection of the Crossing Midnight series because I had heard many good things about it, but it took me nearly a year to actually finish the trade - which I think is saying a lot because it's comprised of only 5 issues, and I generally read single issues of comics in under two minutes – at least the first time through, anyway. There is something incredibly... dense, and a little hard to get into about these first issues, most likely due to the difficulty of simultaneously trying to set up realistic and interesting characters, to be respectful and faithful to the Japanese setting, and to start digging into the amazingly complicated Japanese folklore world, all while beginning to tell what will hopefully turn out to be an engrossing and entertaining story. But if you can manage to sink in, I suspect Crossing Midnight will be worth it.
Mike Carey, writer of the long-running Lucifer series, has always been a little hit-or-miss for me in some aspects, but he's an ambitious writer and while sometimes certain phrases falter or details ring false, his overarching plots and concepts are grandiose and moving in a way a la Sandman or [b:Watchmen|472331|Watchmen|Alan Moore|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175041710s/472331.jpg|4358649] that I tend to love. I look forward to reading more of Crossing Midnight. While some issues will hopefully have really good moments, and other issues or story arcs may likely fall flat, the overall series definitely has the potential to be interesting and poignant and an exciting, fantastical story.
I would love to know what those more into Japanese culture, or who have read more Manga centered around Shinto beliefs and ancient animistic Japanese folklore think of this series, especially as it goes on and the plot threads began in this first arc develop further.
Mike Carey, writer of the long-running Lucifer series, has always been a little hit-or-miss for me in some aspects, but he's an ambitious writer and while sometimes certain phrases falter or details ring false, his overarching plots and concepts are grandiose and moving in a way a la Sandman or [b:Watchmen|472331|Watchmen|Alan Moore|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175041710s/472331.jpg|4358649] that I tend to love. I look forward to reading more of Crossing Midnight. While some issues will hopefully have really good moments, and other issues or story arcs may likely fall flat, the overall series definitely has the potential to be interesting and poignant and an exciting, fantastical story.
I would love to know what those more into Japanese culture, or who have read more Manga centered around Shinto beliefs and ancient animistic Japanese folklore think of this series, especially as it goes on and the plot threads began in this first arc develop further.
tiffasaurusrex's review
3.0
The art is sometimes amazing, sometimes awkward. The story is the same, nothing is clear-cut or clean enough.
scorpstar77's review
5.0
My husband first picked up the Crossing Midnight series because we both like Mike Carey a lot. Lucifer was awesome, and David loves the Hellblazer stuff he wrote. This is a series centering on Japanese mythology involving kami and yokai, types of spirits from the spirit world. Toshi and Kai are twins, one born just before midnight and one just after. They both have remarkable abilities that they don't notice until they're about 14 and just starting high school, but they're not the same abilities. Toshi notices that sharp things will not cut her, and Kai can sort of disable magic. A kami from the spirit world, Aratsu, comes to claim Toshi as his own, and while she fights him at first, he threatens her family if she does not come, so she ends up going. In the meantime, Kai promises to help a different spirit, an enemy of Aratsu, if she will heal the damage done to his mother by Aratsu. The artwork is beautiful, and I had a hard time putting the story down - I read all three trades that are out currently in one sitting.
theatlantean's review
4.0
Superb. Gutted to find out that the end wasn't the end... and then excited for the next two :)
laughinglibra84's review
5.0
Crossing Midnight is another great story produced by Vertigo. Fraternal twins are born after midnight, but only one of them is cursed with a debt to a master swords man. The other twin has to find a way to not only save the twin in peril, but he also has to deal with his own special skills.
lasairfiona's review
5.0
I really enjoyed this. I'm probably going to have to start following this series.
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