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arkobla's review against another edition
4.0
This book was slightly slower than the first. It had the benefit of a great lead in, but struggled in the beginning because we, the reader as well as the characters didn't know what was going on. I think as it began to take shape, it improved very much, but it was probably a little too long in the development. Still, I am enjoying this strilogy and look forward to the 3rd book due out in July of 2013.
thomas_edmund's review
3.0
I picked this up from the library thinking: "cool, this looks like Spawn as if written by Neil Gaiman!"
Bit disappointed to be honest. I like seeing historical figures in fiction and don't get precious about it, but in this case I felt like Gaydos was capitalizing on the idea of the Inklings (a club CS Lewis and Tolkien were part of) being more than an authors group, than actually creating compelling characters with a sense of realism. Tolkien for example just endlessly referenced his new Hobbit book, but aside from that and a few other factoids from the author I never got a sense of the story actually being about the larger than the now legendary authors.
The story itself began strongly, with the typical supernatural dreams and weirdness suitable for a story encompassing a war in heaven. However the story quickly dragged into Da Vinci Code territory where everyone just spend way too much time talking about spiritual conspiracies.
The finale concluding with some powerful philosophizing on the subject of good and evil which was played well, and along the way the artwork was suitably dark and strange, ultimately this comic was good but not great, not upset I read it, nor overwhelmed with it.
Bit disappointed to be honest. I like seeing historical figures in fiction and don't get precious about it, but in this case I felt like Gaydos was capitalizing on the idea of the Inklings (a club CS Lewis and Tolkien were part of) being more than an authors group, than actually creating compelling characters with a sense of realism. Tolkien for example just endlessly referenced his new Hobbit book, but aside from that and a few other factoids from the author I never got a sense of the story actually being about the larger than the now legendary authors.
The story itself began strongly, with the typical supernatural dreams and weirdness suitable for a story encompassing a war in heaven. However the story quickly dragged into Da Vinci Code territory where everyone just spend way too much time talking about spiritual conspiracies.
The finale concluding with some powerful philosophizing on the subject of good and evil which was played well, and along the way the artwork was suitably dark and strange, ultimately this comic was good but not great, not upset I read it, nor overwhelmed with it.
ethanssss's review against another edition
3.0
I really should have read the first one. I was a bit confused
david_agranoff's review against another edition
2.0
Disappointed, loved the first book in this series, but it didn't seem like anything happened for 250 pages. For real they could have told this story in at least half the pages. I did enjoy the last 150 pages. Full review coming.
liesvanrompaey's review against another edition
1.0
I found this book to be sublimely boring, full of factual mistakes, astoundingly stereotypical and most of all extremely sexist.
If this book had been written in the fifties I might have understood, but as that is not the case, it just makes me feel like throwing up. There are hardly any women and none are depicted in an even slightly interesting way. They are described as helpless, stupid, fearful, annoying, geeky, etc.
The men of course are brave, dependable, heroic, true martyrs, etc.
It's as if those men who wrote this book have never interacted with women in real life and only know them form books (and those probably written in the fifties).
Most science fiction authors have the decency to imagine a future world where women are more than stereotypes.
My heart weeps for anyone who thinks this a wonderful book.
If this book had been written in the fifties I might have understood, but as that is not the case, it just makes me feel like throwing up. There are hardly any women and none are depicted in an even slightly interesting way. They are described as helpless, stupid, fearful, annoying, geeky, etc.
The men of course are brave, dependable, heroic, true martyrs, etc.
It's as if those men who wrote this book have never interacted with women in real life and only know them form books (and those probably written in the fifties).
Most science fiction authors have the decency to imagine a future world where women are more than stereotypes.
My heart weeps for anyone who thinks this a wonderful book.
nwhyte's review against another edition
2.0
https://nwhyte.livejournal.com/3405907.html
It turns out to be the second book in a series where I have not read the first, and the action is so tightly connected to the previous volume that I could not make head nor tail of it, and gave up after only 16 pages. For what it's worth, the characters seemed to me to be behaving very oddly, but I was not interested enough to keep reading and find out why.
It turns out to be the second book in a series where I have not read the first, and the action is so tightly connected to the previous volume that I could not make head nor tail of it, and gave up after only 16 pages. For what it's worth, the characters seemed to me to be behaving very oddly, but I was not interested enough to keep reading and find out why.