Reviews tagging 'War'

The Old Guard, Book One: Opening Fire by Greg Rucka

8 reviews

heyitsneen's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Blood, Violence, and Gore

Moderate: Death and War

Minor: Grief

tessadehart's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I really enjoyed this comic! I watched the movie before getting my hands on this and was super impressed with how many things I loved from the movie were direct pulls from the book. The relationships between all the characters were super fascinating and entertaining. Mostly an adventurous and emotional story, but with plenty of humor. Definitely pretty violent with some gore but not excessive in my opinion. I highly recommend for anyone looking for an action packed, emotional story with a bit of fantasy. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gun violence, Blood, War, and Murder

Moderate: Drug use, Alcohol, and Gore

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, and Sexual content

rafacolog's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Gore, and Blood

Moderate: War, Death, and Torture

akira_outofthegravity's review

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I watched the film first, I love all of the characters. And surprisingly I loved them in here too! 

The story was a little different but I enjoyed it, I think the style and the dialogue are really good. It was a little fast paced for me, but I don’t know if that’s a standard thing with comics that I’m just not used to. 

A good, quick read with decent gore and nice art :)

JoeNicky forever <3 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Gore

Moderate: Blood and Body horror

Minor: War, Trafficking, and Slavery

literaryliaisons's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, War, Blood, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder

balibasa's review

adventurous funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Death, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, War, Body horror, and Confinement

dodie_sullivan's review

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Death

criticalgayze's review

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

As a huge fan of the 2020 film adaptation, I scooped up the original graphic novel and its sequel on the recommendation of a friend that was part of a list of Queer comic recommendations.

If you, like me, come to the graphic novels by way of the film, you will find the film to be a very faithful adaptation of the graphic novel. In fact, based on memory of the film, it is an almost shot for shot recreation of the graphic novel. You may either find this an entertaining revisit and prep to try out Book Two, which was my takeaway, or you may prefer to just skip this one and go straight to the movie.

My one struggle with the graphic novel, which I think the movie improves upon, is the area of character-building. I don't think we are given quite enough time in this first slim volume to live with the characters and see them develop, and this makes the acceptance and partial forgiveness of the traitorous behavior of one of the group members a little bit of a stretch to understand.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Kidnapping, Blood, Gore, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Torture, Toxic friendship, and War