FROM THE ARCHIVES

Tag: comics

Book Reviews

Dead Space Liberation Review

Gary Smith

Liberation is the third of the Dead Space graphic novels (and only the second that I have read). This one serves as a prequel to Dead Space 3, a game which I do not yet have myself, but one that our Features Editor Eric W. award three-out-of-four stars to in his PC review a couple of days ago. This first I read (and reviewed here) was Salvage and it was written by Antony Johnston. That one featured an art style by Christopher Shy that I initially didn’t like but that did grow on me by the end of…

CONTINUE READING →
Dead Space Salvage
Book Reviews

Dead Space Salvage Review

Gary Smith

Day 46 of the QDR brings us another graphic novel, video game tie-in: Dead Space Salvage. The story is set in between Dead Space and Dead Space 2 and involves a group of illegal miners salvaging the Ishimura. Is it worth reading?

CONTINUE READING →
Assassin's Creed Accipiter
Book Reviews

Assassin’s Creed – 3 Accipiter Review

Gary Smith

This is the final volume, so far, of the French comics to be released in English (all three volumes were just released in English back in October). A fourth volume came out in November in French titled “Hawk.” After finishing this volume, I really hope it doesn’t take another two volumes to come out before the series is printed in English again as I am into this story now. This one picks up where the second volume left off. This time around, another Assassin named Jonathan Hawk is in an Animus…

CONTINUE READING →
Assassin's Creed Aquilus
Book Reviews

Assassin’s Creed – 2 Aquilus Review

Gary Smith

If you read my review yesterday of the first volume, then you know this is really where this series of graphic novels begin a serious departure from the storyline we play in the Assassin’s Creed games. Yes, the characters we met in the first game (Desmond and Lucy) and the second game on (Rebecca and Shaun) are all present but things are way out of synch between the games and this series. And you can’t even say “well the game just didn’t show this happening.” The game doesn’t show some of the…

CONTINUE READING →
Book Reviews

Assassin’s Creed – 1 Desmond Review

Gary Smith

This is first volume of the French comic/graphic novel series of Assassin’s Creed books. This volume starts off with Subject 16 and an ancestor named Aquilus, but it’s very much about Desmond and Altair. It tells how Desmond was kidnapped and came to be at Abstergo, and shows some key missions of Altair’s. For the most part, this volume follows the events of the first game pretty well. Anyone who has played the first Assassin’s Creed will be able to easily follow along, although the book does a…

CONTINUE READING →