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Hinterkind Vol. 1: The Waking World (2014)

by Ian Edginton(Favorite Author)

3.23 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1401245188 (ISBN13: 9781401245184)

languge

English

genre

Paranormal Fantasy

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: The concept is interesting, the whole post-apocalyptic angle due to some unknown blight that's wiped out the human race (sorta). Society's gone and the creatures of lore have risen from hiding and regained their power and control. I thought the bright colors made for a very pretty visual picture however the artist didn't really do facial expressions well enough for me. They were either strange, off, didn't match the situation, or poorly drawn. I'm not too entirely sure what the plot is about as the story jumps to other characters that don't have any apparent connection to the main narrative, making everything confusing. Not to mention the pace is tad bit slow but there's lots of events to keep you occupied (gory scenes, vulgar language, explosions, escapes, etc). So far it... more's all right and I liked what I saw but I can't say more about it than that.
review 2: This book grew on me - at first I really didn't like it; it's fairly brutal in dispatching characters, and it doesn't set out its world very clearly in the first issue. Instead it lets it grow, as the various factions are discovered, and sometimes played off each other. In a world decades after humanity has been decimated, fantasy creatures have come out of their hidden places and are taking back the world; humans are only fodder and prey. We get several perspectives - a human leaving New York to check on other human outposts, a group of fairy creatures hunting for humans to sell, and some political posturing of elves with a captive human population. Some of the stories tie together, introducing new factions, and then destroying much of the groups. The major action sequence in this first volume is fairly harrowing, and not everyone will survive. Death comes quickly in this world, and that point is driven home several times. In some ways this is a darker mirror of Saga, a similar sense of wild imagination and fanciful creatures behaving in ways you wouldn't expect of them, although their rationales make sense in the world. It is a different world to inhabit, and one I look forward to visiting again (from a safe vantage; this is a fantasy world I would never want to live in). less

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