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geekwayne's review against another edition
3.0
'Hunters' with main story and art by Josh Tierney and Miguel Valderrama is a unique idea for an anthology story. Some of the art quality just doesn't hold up with the rest.
A dying king sends a group of adventurers to a mysterious island to look for a cure. They find clues for how to proceed and split up in to groups to search. As each group goes their way, a different art team tells their story. The styles vary quite a bit, and characters perish along the way. The group comes back together a couple times, and the mystery of the island has a final resolution, but not before showing us some pretty weird traps and monsters that the island has in store.
I like the idea, and I liked most of the artwork. I wish there had been a brief foreword to explain the concept. The radical change in styles was initially confusing, but I ultimately liked this odd tale.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Lion Forge, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
A dying king sends a group of adventurers to a mysterious island to look for a cure. They find clues for how to proceed and split up in to groups to search. As each group goes their way, a different art team tells their story. The styles vary quite a bit, and characters perish along the way. The group comes back together a couple times, and the mystery of the island has a final resolution, but not before showing us some pretty weird traps and monsters that the island has in store.
I like the idea, and I liked most of the artwork. I wish there had been a brief foreword to explain the concept. The radical change in styles was initially confusing, but I ultimately liked this odd tale.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Lion Forge, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
ogreart's review against another edition
3.0
I received a free electronic ARC of this graphic novel from Netgalley in return for an honest review.
The premise of the story was interesting enough. A king sent all the best warriors from his kingdom to get him the dust of a dead god to save his life and to prolong it. The execution of the story was uneven. Some of the individual stories and artwork did not work for me, even as others did. There was some character growth. There were a few surprises. On the whole the book was not bad. Overall, though, I don't plan to reread it and would not be inclined to read a sequel.
The premise of the story was interesting enough. A king sent all the best warriors from his kingdom to get him the dust of a dead god to save his life and to prolong it. The execution of the story was uneven. Some of the individual stories and artwork did not work for me, even as others did. There was some character growth. There were a few surprises. On the whole the book was not bad. Overall, though, I don't plan to reread it and would not be inclined to read a sequel.
catsforlenny's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
morrib's review against another edition
2.0
I honestly just couldn't get into this - I found the art style and lettering to be extremely jarring and not aesthetically pleasing. It was a bit a struggle to get through and in the end it just wasn't something I enjoyed.
etienne02's review
1.0
I hated the illustrations style from the very beginning, but the story look epic enough so I gave it a try. Not only were the illustrations not for me, but they just became horrible in the middle, change style a couple of time during the book for no particular reason, and came back to their original style. The story, epic at first, was looking good, but slowly felt into a parody of himself, bad humor, not enough/good action and a story that goes mostly nowhere. Last point, in the beginning they find rocks (around twenty of them) with kind of drawing on them, they were all on each other and messed up, they seem to put them back in order (by luck or a rare talent) really fast and reading/understanding them in a few minutes. How are we supposed to take this book seriously after that? I don,t know! I haven't!
thebibliophilegirl's review
1.0
When I read the premise of this graphic novel on Netgalley, it sounded so good... It sounded like the kind of graphic novel that I would instantly go for in a book shop. Alas, whilst reading it, I found it confusing and just straight up boring.
Famed warrior Azarias has gathered a small army of varied adventurers on a quest to gather the dust of a distant island god in order to save the life of their king. Along the way, they encounter numerous beasts and monsters all in the process of gathering artifacts necessary to locate the island god before ultimately defeating it.
Throughout the course of the adventure, the band disperses into small groups with individual objectives in order to cover more ground in shorter order. These individual side-story adventures reveal more about each of the many unique and intriguing characters and their different interactions in different combinations.
This expertly curated anthology approach builds to the ultimate encounter and resolution in the end, with each of the warriors in the ensemble receiving their due attention. A very intricate and original fantasy universe filled with a large cast of intriguing, complex, and diverse warriors deserving stories of their own.
The thing that really confused me about this graphic novel was that, when a new chapter started, there would also be a different kind of artwork, and then the different artwork would represent a different character's point of view. This is a good idea, but it wasn't executed well AT ALL. I had to Google whether the difference in artwork meant that there were multiple graphic novel stories in this one, like an anthology. I mean, I guess it was an anthology of sorts? It was an anthology of artists...
It also didn't help that the story was confusing as well, I had no idea what was going on for about 75% of the time. The graphic novel actually started off really strong. With the amazing art work and a solid plot idea about a warrior going on a quest to save his King, I was excited to continue reading about his journey through different lands and completing different tasks. I think that if the first artist had done the illustrations throughout the graphic novel, and it didn't keep switching perspectives, then this would have been a magnificent story. However, that just wasn't the case. The story turned into one with weird artwork, and (sometimes) indecipherable lettering, so you really had to squint and concentrate to even make out the words which was so annoying.
It's such a shame that this graphic turned out to be a 1-star, because I was really looking forward to it. But hey, you can't enjoy every book that you're going to pick up, are you?
Disclaimer: this book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Famed warrior Azarias has gathered a small army of varied adventurers on a quest to gather the dust of a distant island god in order to save the life of their king. Along the way, they encounter numerous beasts and monsters all in the process of gathering artifacts necessary to locate the island god before ultimately defeating it.
Throughout the course of the adventure, the band disperses into small groups with individual objectives in order to cover more ground in shorter order. These individual side-story adventures reveal more about each of the many unique and intriguing characters and their different interactions in different combinations.
This expertly curated anthology approach builds to the ultimate encounter and resolution in the end, with each of the warriors in the ensemble receiving their due attention. A very intricate and original fantasy universe filled with a large cast of intriguing, complex, and diverse warriors deserving stories of their own.
The thing that really confused me about this graphic novel was that, when a new chapter started, there would also be a different kind of artwork, and then the different artwork would represent a different character's point of view. This is a good idea, but it wasn't executed well AT ALL. I had to Google whether the difference in artwork meant that there were multiple graphic novel stories in this one, like an anthology. I mean, I guess it was an anthology of sorts? It was an anthology of artists...
It also didn't help that the story was confusing as well, I had no idea what was going on for about 75% of the time. The graphic novel actually started off really strong. With the amazing art work and a solid plot idea about a warrior going on a quest to save his King, I was excited to continue reading about his journey through different lands and completing different tasks. I think that if the first artist had done the illustrations throughout the graphic novel, and it didn't keep switching perspectives, then this would have been a magnificent story. However, that just wasn't the case. The story turned into one with weird artwork, and (sometimes) indecipherable lettering, so you really had to squint and concentrate to even make out the words which was so annoying.
It's such a shame that this graphic turned out to be a 1-star, because I was really looking forward to it. But hey, you can't enjoy every book that you're going to pick up, are you?
Disclaimer: this book was sent to me by the publisher in exchange for an honest review
librarianryan's review
4.0
I didn’t get to finish this because I could not download it on my new iPad. But I had started it on my old one. At first I was a little uncaring, and the change of storyteller and illustrator was a bit hard to get used to, but I ended up loving it. How the change of the art style went with the change story line. While I didn’t complete this story I will be once it’s published.
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