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The Battle Of Blood And Ink: A Fable Of The Flying City (2012)

by Jared Axelrod(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0765331306 (ISBN13: 9780765331304)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: This is a solid first graphic novel from writer Jared Axelrod and Steven Walker. Well paced, with memorable characters, and at the core a good story. A flight of fantasy with just enough steampunk, I hope to see more from this team down the road.That being said, where I find myself wanting is the ending, which is one of the more difficult (in my view) aspects of crafting a tale. It felt a bit rushed, a sort of "this needs to be wrapped up, and we don't quite have the pages to unfold it completely, and thus [ending] happens". It's what kept me from giving it a 4 or higher rating - but quite frankly, even such well known authors as Stephen King have left me with that feeling ("Needful Things" comes to mind).
review 2: Ok, the beginning 3/4 of this book are deligh... moretful, and the artwork's a lot of fun -- not always 100% spot-on, anatomically, and sometimes people's faces look a bit misshapen, but overall it looks great. Very Indiana Jones or Prince Valiant-but-better, somehow. The setting's fun: a flying city ruled by an evil woman known as the Provost. And the main character is a spitfire young woman named Ashe who runs an underground newspaper and has a head of red dreadlocks. What's not to love?Well, the ending, for one. And it's driving me crazy because I want to complain about its stupidity at length, but I don't really want to spoil it. Just suffice it to say that the main character had a method in her hands for fixing something horribly wrong with her city, and she very nearly kills everyone and then they're saved by... some kind of unforeseen third method that there was no hint would work. It made me want to bite someone. less

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