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Fear Agent Library Edition, Volume 1 (2012)

by Rick Remender(Favorite Author)

4.54 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1616550058 (ISBN13: 9781616550059)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Dark Horse Books

review 1: Fear Agent has had a very vocal and incredibly loyal fanbase for years now, because it does what only a few books have been able to do -- The Sandman, Sin City, Black Hole, Eightball, Hellboy, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Walking Dead, Saga -- give the reader the story they'd been waiting for, even if they didn't know they'd been waiting for it. Fear Agent is Remender at his best, loaded with great ideas, the plot crashing forward at a crazy speed, slamming the reader in the guts with shocking turns of fate. Where a large percentage of science fiction suffers from a lack of character development, Remender excels at it. He has his faults as well -- he packs in too many philosophical monologues at times, falling in love with his own punk-noir language and rambling ... moreon when he should let the action speak and just shut the fuck up. His newest series, Black Science, is very good, but definitely suffers from an excess of wordiness. With Fear Agent, however, he finds a nice balance, and comes close to being annoying without ever quite crossing the line. Anyone familiar with Tony Moore, which is likely almost everyone, since he drew the first 6 issues and couple dozen covers of the Walking Dead, knows he is one of the most talented artists around, with a style that is modern but somehow reminiscent of the EC greats so important to the genesis of Fear Agent: Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Al Williamson and Krigstein. Jerome Opena, who alternates with Moore on art duties, kind of made his name here, at least in comics, and is a great artist in his own right. Highly recommended.
review 2: FYI* This is the first comic book/graphic novel I've read I guess and the first one I've ever reviewed or commented on. I bought this giant book for $50 at a Comic Book store out of curiosity. I wanted to see if I would have any interest in getting into any graphic novels or comic book series'. So let's get down to business. This was a really fun read! Beautiful illustrations in this book, really great. A few times I was stunned by some of the full page illustrations for some of the more important scenes. So when it comes to the graphic part of this graphic novel I absolutely loved it! It's colorful and seriously awesome! The story was great! The main character is an alcoholic space man!? It's really engaging for adults touching on issues like post traumatic stress disorder, alcoholism, addiction to alien narcotics, cloning, and I'm sure a few other things I'm forgetting to mention.... Oh yeah, SEX. That's what sold me on buying this in the store. The issues, not the sex. I'm not saying I don't like sex... Oh hell you know what I'm trying to say! I loved the character and the story it was exciting! I loved the novel all together I just have one thing I'd like to say about it that's not necessarily positive, but not necessarily negative either. The whole book seemed to be a series of action scenes. Maybe that's not the most accurate way to phrase it. It was jumping without transitions from one part of the story to the next. Still not a great way to phrase it. It wasn't always the most fluid read? Nope! Still not what I'm looking to say. I guess you'll just have to find out for yourself! less

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