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Liked It “series prequel, this is the story of how she met Dolph, Jean Claude and perhaps Edward as well. |
Didn’t Like It “To be honest, I'm not graphic novel/comic book/whatever the hell it is fan. While it was nice to see Edward and Anita's first co-execution/arson the pictures tend to make me angry rather than illustrate the story for me. This is a personal problem and has absolutely nothing to do with the...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“To be honest, I'm not graphic novel/comic book/whatever the hell it is fan. While it was nice to see Edward and Anita's first co-execution/arson the pictures tend to make me angry rather than illustrate the story for me. This is a personal problem and has absolutely nothing to do with the artist's skill (which I find no fault with.) Maybe I'll work on it. Probably not.”
Sarah wrote this review 13 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“series prequel, this is the story of how she met Dolph, Jean Claude and perhaps Edward as well.
Krystal P wrote this review Tuesday, November 10 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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“I loved the way the art in these graphic novels appeared!! to see the characters in a different light was amazing.”
Vicky wrote this review Friday, July 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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Dana W wrote this review Friday, July 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is a prequel that Laurell wrote just for the graphic series. The artwork is beautiful but it can get a bit bloody due to Anita's job as Vampire killer. For all you Edward fans he is prominently featured.”
rowanthea wrote this review Wednesday, April 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Anita Blake is invited by Sergeant Dolph Storr to the scene of a murdered and mutilated child. Thinking that this is the work of a vampire he invites Anita Blake with her vampire powers to look at the scene and see something that he cannot see. Anita spots an onlooker who looks like a vampire to her and who lives nearby, his name is Adam. He us questioned by Sergeant Dolph. Adam tells them he has an act at the Guilty Pleasures strip club. Anita starts by going with Sergeant Dolph to the Guilty Pleasures Club where the vampires hang out and humans can come and look at them. They question Jean-Claude, the owner, about Adam. The next day another mutilated body of a child is found in an alleyway and Adam finally tells them where they can find twelve other bodies and also where they can find the vampires who committed these crimes. Anita, Edward and Manny go to the house where the vampires live and a frightening scenario takes place.”
Rockville Library Quick Picks wrote this review Monday, January 26 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I liked the Anita Blake series (especially the first few books before the plot devolved into a series of sex scenes and their endless justifications) so I thought I'd check out the graphic novel adaptation. My first thought upon opening the cover? Wow, this is just...bad. I've heard through the industry grapevine that a lot of authors are out-sourcing their graphic novels to Korea and Indonesia and if this is the sort of product they're giving us? This should be a fairly short-lived experiment.
Rob W wrote this review Sunday, January 4 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The characters aren't well drawn at all and there are some stylistic conventions used by the artists which quickly proceed from "annoying" to "intolerable." For example, Jean Claude is consistently shown with a bizarre angular hair "curl" flopping down into his face, for no apparent reason. It's just there, or not there, depending upon the whims of the illustrator and having no relationship to anything that's going on in the character's environment.
The artist also needs to make some decisions regarding what facial characteristics are common to men and which are common to women. Jean Claude isn't supposed to be overly traditionally masculine (he's described in the books as walking that line between beautiful and handsome) and I have no problem with that as a concept, but the way it's executed here? Fails on all counts. And don't even get me started on the poorly rendered and ill conceived clothing he wears.
Anita is also poorly drawn and seems to have two, maybe three facial expressions. The scars on her arms run the gamut panel to panel - are they blister bubbles? Wads of chewing gum? Puffy pink pillows? She too has the oddly angular and semi-sentient hair curl affliction, but not to the extent that Jean Claude does. Her clothing tends to be better and she's at least pretty in most of the panels.
I was willing to give this the benefit of the doubt and I can forgive a lot, but this adaptation is just poor quality, in my opinion. It's too bad that the author seems to be really taken with the job these artists are doing for her (according to her website) because she could be getting a whole lot better. ”
“You can't help but love Anita Blake. The executioner of vampires and the animator of the dead. From her clever T-shirts, to her love of penguins, to her sarcasm (especially in the face of danger). Hamilton has a great sense of humor in her books and they keep getting better. It surprised me to discover that she graduated from Marion College in Indiana before it became Indian Wesleyan University. It really is a small world!”
readingroomkatie wrote this review Saturday, November 29 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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