The Northlanders comic series has received a lot of praise - and since it is about Vikings, I simply had to get my hands on it. The story of the first collection, Sven the Returned, is relatively simple: a man returns home to claim his inheritance from his uncle who has usurped his father's seat....
As I'm writing this, I'm currently taking a Young Adult Lit class in uni. Obviously, as it was an assigned reading, I hesitated reading it because of preconceptions I had about books assigned to me not being ones I like, but I'm almost always proven wrong. Especially with this one. It's a beautif...
This Volume returns to Matty Roth and the big story after Vol 5. covered other characters.This time, it's about an election to put a provisional government in the DMZ. Matty is covering the story for Liberty News (even though he hates them), and what follows is a very interesting story about a '...
We are introduced to a second setting and protagonist from the Viking world in the second volume of this series, with a journey to occupied Ireland. In the last volume, the Vikings were te conquered people, but the tables are turned here as the Vikings becomes the conquerors and oppressors of the...
Rereading the entire series Starts fast, ends a bit sappy but the story is solid and the art is well done.
I sped through this graphic novel. I prefer to buy graphic novel with more story at once, then wait for each issue of the comic book series. However, I still usually read only one issue at at time, but with this graphic novel, once I got through the second issue, I couldn't stop. Lots of actio...
Oh hey there, Moral Event Horizon! Guess we won't be needing to stay on this side of you any more!Yeah, this is quite meh. I don't really care about Delgado Nation Matty Roth. He's just another warlord. Part of the appeal of DMZ was the was that it was written from a subordinate perspective, that...
The Sea Shepherd's Captain Paul Watkins inspires another comic book; fitting for a man himself inspired by Conan! (Was his first comic appearance in Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man? The issue with the dolphin kill?) Narratively, I was a little disappointed that a writer of Woods' caliber could...
This is where it all comes together. The first 2 issues are backstory on the FSA Commander from the Tunnel, the one Matty always finds himself tangled up with and trying to figure out. The story does a very good job of fleshing out a character who's essential to the whole series in many ways, bu...
This volume is saved by the short story opener. The continuation of the main narrative takes us from the last volume's implausible-but-interesting (Matty becomes fully enmeshed as a citizen of the DMZ, a doer who relinquishes his passive, journalistic objectivity) to the pathetic (Matty spends th...
Ultimo tomo de la historia de los vikingos y con gusto puedo decir que es le mejor de todos...9 números divididos en 3 historias de el clan Hauksson,que se ubican cientos de años entre cada una pero sin dejar de llevar una continuidad...desde su llegada a Islandia, la pelea contra una tierra fria...
Brian Wood creates a hipster ode to New York that is very much an artifact of its time and place. The musical references are solid, the landmarks diverse, the social situations universal. I'm pretty far removed, both from college and being a privileged white girl in NYC, but it all resonates with...