If you ever had to read essay written by 7th graders, you've read far better material than this book. The story line is exactly the kind of dark stuff little, immature 7th graders would love. The character development is non-existent. The plot is imbecilic. The episodes jump from one thing to another without transition. New names and characters suddenly appear. One guy suddenly starts speaking German. At least the illustrations are just as bad as the writing so you can have every bd evperience you ever wanted at the same time.
I usually stop reading a book that I am not interested in or that I find second-rate so I can spend time on better things, but my reading group has a challenge to read several specific types of book and genre and Graphic Novels were one of the items in the challenge. I had never been tempted to read one before and can only hope that there are far better ones that might redeem the genre somewhere out there. I once tried a food and found it horrible, but tried it again years later and now love it. Sometimes, your first experience just happens to be an awful one.
The club's challenge was designed to encourage us to expand our reading tastes and experiences. This did expand my experience, but it only confirmed my tastes.
Avoid this book and the rest of the ones in its series or the vampires will get you and make you sorry you didn't listen to me. ( )

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If you ever had to read essay written by 7th graders, you've read far better material than this book. The story line is exactly the kind of dark stuff little, immature 7th graders would love. The character development is non-existent. The plot is imbecilic. The episodes jump from one thing to another without transition. New names and characters suddenly appear. One guy suddenly starts speaking German. At least the illustrations are just as bad as the writing so you can have every bd evperience you ever wanted at the same time.
I usually stop reading a book that I am not interested in or that I find second-rate so I can spend time on better things, but my reading group has a challenge to read several specific types of book and genre and Graphic Novels were one of the items in the challenge. I had never been tempted to read one before and can only hope that there are far better ones that might redeem the genre somewhere out there. I once tried a food and found it horrible, but tried it again years later and now love it. Sometimes, your first experience just happens to be an awful one.
The club's challenge was designed to encourage us to expand our reading tastes and experiences. This did expand my experience, but it only confirmed my tastes.
Avoid this book and the rest of the ones in its series or the vampires will get you and make you sorry you didn't listen to me. ( )

The vampires return to Barrow, Alaska, to finish off the witnesses to the last attack. The inhabitants of the town are prepared, but not for every trick the vampires have. As it turns out, both sides have a surprise waiting for them.
I am afraid that surprise was for the characters, not someone who read the middle volume of the trilogy. I still loved the book, especially when its setting was in Alaska. Niles provided a script full of colorful characters and grounded and thrilling action. Still, I felt that Templesmith’s art made the book exceptional, especially during the night battle in the Arctic winter, where he made blurs of color and cartoonish portraitures seem atmospheric. ( )

This issue was a bit "been there, done that."

Once more, Barrow is under attack. We meet some new characters, and some old ones return. The artwork continues to be stunning, and the script is quite good. This issue, all the same, still felt a bit like filler compared to the innovations of the last few issues.

Still worth a read, and certainly hasn't put me off the series. Still love this artwork... ( )