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kaylecorey's review against another edition
2.0
I had high hopes for this. Conceptually, it was new and fresh. The material it draws from is interesting and had so much potential, but the execution was lackluster. My biggest complaint is the physical layout of the panels. They were difficult to follow and lacked coherent flow. The illustration is nicely done, and the black and white serves the plot well. However, it has little cohesiveness beyond that detail.
helpfulsnowman's review against another edition
2.0
Aleister Crowley might have been an occultist, but he also might have been the first communications/media studies professor. I guess he may have invented Churchill's V For Victory thing?
Which I didn't know about, and now V For Vendetta makes a lot more sense.
Good thing someone wrote this comic. I only know things because they were in comics. This makes me pretty good at bar trivia and pretty bad at crossword puzzles.
Which I didn't know about, and now V For Vendetta makes a lot more sense.
Good thing someone wrote this comic. I only know things because they were in comics. This makes me pretty good at bar trivia and pretty bad at crossword puzzles.
madradian's review
3.0
Aleister and Adolf is an interesting take on what could have been happening behind the scenes of World War 2 Europe. It details a secret, occult war where Aleister Crowley creates a new weapon to combat Hitler's march towards victory. The story itself is very interesting, and has lots of little nuances that make you pause and think while reading.
As someone who has a macabre fascination with World War 2(it's what drew me to Mignola's: Hellboy) I really wanted to love this, and I can almost give it three stars. The art of is phenomenal, and the use of black and white makes the comic feel darker, but the pages feel busy. A lot of times I felt like I didn't know where to look on the page. Other than that, the story flies by. The suspense it builds is almost immediately broken because of the length of the comic.
Mainly I feel that the story works but has problems. Hitler plays almost no role in the story yet somehow generates most of the action. Rushkoff makes no effort to delve into Crowley's story. It feels as if he only took the time to skim his Wikipedia page. The story gets muddled and confused, and I found myself going back from time to time to sort out what had happened.
All in all it's a story I enjoyed but didn't get much out of. It's not something worth spending 20 dollars on.
As someone who has a macabre fascination with World War 2(it's what drew me to Mignola's: Hellboy) I really wanted to love this, and I can almost give it three stars. The art of is phenomenal, and the use of black and white makes the comic feel darker, but the pages feel busy. A lot of times I felt like I didn't know where to look on the page. Other than that, the story flies by. The suspense it builds is almost immediately broken because of the length of the comic.
Mainly I feel that the story works but has problems. Hitler plays almost no role in the story yet somehow generates most of the action. Rushkoff makes no effort to delve into Crowley's story. It feels as if he only took the time to skim his Wikipedia page. The story gets muddled and confused, and I found myself going back from time to time to sort out what had happened.
All in all it's a story I enjoyed but didn't get much out of. It's not something worth spending 20 dollars on.
acrisalves's review
3.0
Com fotos em https://osrascunhos.com/2017/01/27/aleister-adolf-douglas-rushkoff-e-michael-avon-oeming/
Definitivamente tenho um problema com a temática explorada. Não o simbolismo ou a força que as ideias podem ter quando propagadas de forma eficiente. O meu problema é mesmo com os rituais de velhotes que envolvem sempre belas donzelas numa forma que parece mais a concretização das mais avançadas fantasias eróticas do que propriamente rituais com verdadeiro intuito mágico.
Claro que, conhecendo a personagem a que a história se dedica, Alesteir, não seria de esperar outra coisa. E por aqui, a história consegue captar esta essência corrosiva, semi demente, no mínimo, estranha, desconfiada e sempre envolvida em teorias da conspiração que aqui encontramos.
Apesar de justificar a narrativa por uma ideia algo absurda, senão idiota, de um símbolo que estará a ser digitalizado com dificuldade, a história consegue ter algum interesse ao explorar uma luta simbólica entre as duas personagens, Alesteir e Adolf, envolvendo objectos de importância ritual e capacidades mágicas que terão tido um papel mais importante do que julgamos no curso da História.
Carregado de rituais e simbolismo, Alesteir & Adolf apresenta a luta por detrás da luta, a exploração de ideias e de forças mentais, através de componentes culturais subtis. Esta ideologia é explorada através de rituais que envolvem sexo e drogas de forma descontrolada, elementos que deturpam a realidade e provocam traumas profundos, principalmente naqueles que são usados sem compreenderem a totalidade do que ocorre.
Definitivamente tenho um problema com a temática explorada. Não o simbolismo ou a força que as ideias podem ter quando propagadas de forma eficiente. O meu problema é mesmo com os rituais de velhotes que envolvem sempre belas donzelas numa forma que parece mais a concretização das mais avançadas fantasias eróticas do que propriamente rituais com verdadeiro intuito mágico.
Claro que, conhecendo a personagem a que a história se dedica, Alesteir, não seria de esperar outra coisa. E por aqui, a história consegue captar esta essência corrosiva, semi demente, no mínimo, estranha, desconfiada e sempre envolvida em teorias da conspiração que aqui encontramos.
Apesar de justificar a narrativa por uma ideia algo absurda, senão idiota, de um símbolo que estará a ser digitalizado com dificuldade, a história consegue ter algum interesse ao explorar uma luta simbólica entre as duas personagens, Alesteir e Adolf, envolvendo objectos de importância ritual e capacidades mágicas que terão tido um papel mais importante do que julgamos no curso da História.
Carregado de rituais e simbolismo, Alesteir & Adolf apresenta a luta por detrás da luta, a exploração de ideias e de forças mentais, através de componentes culturais subtis. Esta ideologia é explorada através de rituais que envolvem sexo e drogas de forma descontrolada, elementos que deturpam a realidade e provocam traumas profundos, principalmente naqueles que são usados sem compreenderem a totalidade do que ocorre.
sean67's review against another edition
1.0
Well I'm sure that meant something to somebody, to me it was just I don't even know what to say but maybe I could say it was just not my cup of tea and well that is latin for you know what!
sassenak's review
2.0
Le récit qui revisite les dessous cachés de la seconde guerre mondiale en lien avec l'occultisme m'intéressait mais cela ne fut pas une lecture facile. Tout d'abord, le format, assez petit, n'aide pas avec le graphisme touffu, que j'ai bien aimé mais qui n'est pas toujours facile surtout dans l'identification de certains personnages. Ensuite, l'histoire en elle-même est compliquée, alambiquée, saute du coq à l'âne et m'a rapidement perdue ... franchement, je crois que je suis passée à côté de cette lecture et pourtant, je connaissais déjà pas mal la vie d'Aleister Crowley !
glasscreature's review against another edition
3.0
yea idk rly what was going on here but the illustrations were great