Nancy A. Collins
Author of Midnight Blue: Sonja Blue Collection
About the Author
Image credit: Uploaded to Wikipedia by the author - 2004
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Works by Nancy A. Collins
Swamp Thing Annual #7 (A Child's Garden Revisited/Rise and Fall/Beauty and the Beast) (1993) — Author — 11 copies
The Sonja Blue Novels Books 1–4 : Sunglasses After Dark, In the Blood, Paint It Black, and A Dozen Black Roses (2017) 8 copies
Billy Fearless [short story] 6 copies
Raymond [short story] 4 copies
Thin Walls [short story] 3 copies
The Dragon's Heart [short story] 3 copies
Swords of Sorrow: Vampirella & Jennifer Blood #4 - The Vampire & the Vigilante! (2015) — Author — 3 copies
Catfish Gal Blues [short story] 3 copies
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #1 3 copies
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #4 2 copies
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #3 2 copies
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #2 2 copies
Junior Teeter And The Bad Shine 2 copies
Cancer Alley [short story] 2 copies
Down In the Hole [short story] 2 copies
The Killer [short story] 2 copies
Big Easy [short story] 2 copies
Variations on a Theme [short story] 2 copies
Fat Tuesday [short story] 2 copies
2099 Unlimited #9 1 copy
Verotika #3 1 copy
Verotika #4 1 copy
Verotika #11 1 copy
Swamp Thing (1993) Annual #7 1 copy
Vampirella: Feary Tales 1 copy
Freaktent [short story] 1 copy
Without Sin [short story] 1 copy
Cavalerada [short story] 1 copy
Return to Hill House 1 copy
Avenue X [short story] 1 copy
Knifepoint [short story] 1 copy
Vampirella 1969 1 copy
Seven Devils 1 copy
The One Eyed King 1 copy
Vampirella (2014) #4 - Lamia 1 copy
Iphigenia [short story] 1 copy
Vampirella: Feary Tales #1 1 copy
Vampirella: Feary Tales #2 1 copy
Vampirella: Feary Tales #3 1 copy
Altered States; Vampirella 1 copy
Voodoo Chile 1 copy
Sunglasses After Dark #1 1 copy
Sunglasses After Dark #4 1 copy
Verotika No.04 1 copy
Vampirella 2015 Annual 1 copy
Associated Works
Mister October: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala (Volumes 1 and 2) (2013) — Contributor — 17 copies
Backstage Passes: An Anthology of Rock & Roll Erotica from the Pages of Blue Blood Magazine (1996) — Contributor — 11 copies
Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 — Contributor — 1 copy
Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Collins, Nancy Averill
- Birthdate
- 1959-09-10
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- McGehee, Arkansas, USA
- Places of residence
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
New York, New York, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA - Occupations
- novelist
short-story writer
comic book writer - Awards and honors
- Bram Stoker Award First Novel winner (1990)
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- Works
- 206
- Also by
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- Members
- 4,205
- Popularity
- #5,980
- Rating
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- ISBNs
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And man was I disappointed. It seems that main comic Blade Runner series will remain the flagship for a long time to come.
Art is interesting, slightly on a cartoonish side of things, but OK. Most important it is consistent throughout the volume. Coloring is also beautifully done. So graphically very well done work.
Problem is in the story. Story must be the most bland story I read in a while (including comics and prose fiction, even poetry I might add). It is just that story goes from A to B to C to D, even after first issue I knew exactly where this story will go. There is no dramatic element, no place where you wonder if our heroes will survive, will they manage to overcome the next hurdle. There is nothing because from the start it is visible there is no danger to our heroes. Yes, people will die but this happens in the background, almost noiseless because these characters are there just to show how bad things are but we could just as well be without these characters. They add no ..... weight?..... to the story, they are just part of the set, basically nothing.
Don't get me wrong, this is comic, I do not expect some high level of story presentation. But let us look at the stories like Conan, various crime stories (pulp fiction) and even let us go to the main story line of Blade Runner comics - we all know our heroes will survive, but these comics kept me interested to see what is going on, what is lurking behind the next corner, how will our heroes handle it, I mean some kind of progress of both characters and the story, some hint of challenge. This is what makes good story. Otherwise we could all read phone books or political pamphlets for entertainment.
All of this is missing from this volume. Everything is just straight forward, everyone is highly knowledgeable, highly capable that basically there is no ..... story. Two panels could have made the whole volume - Elle coming into the town outside LA on one panel and Elle leaving the city with all dead bad guys in the background on another panel.
Hopefully author's will improve in follow up stories about the Elle. Animated series was great, I truly enjoyed it, I just wish they build up the equivalent story-wise in graphical format.
And one thing that is so cringy and you cannot miss it on pages of this comic, is political messaging. I understand that this is now trendy and everything but it just makes the entire story blah - Russian mafia leading the fracking company that looks like Sauron's lair with all the smoke and towers, good guys living in, for all means and purposes, Eden with enough propellers on all the wind turbines to be able to elevate few miles above ground. Living in such a clean condition and in harmony with nature that I was ..... huh? I mean, what, in else completely polluted world few miles outside LA you basically have equivalent of zero pollution area, clean beautiful blue sky (as opposed to dark, ridiculous smoke area of fracking company) where you can grow food without any problems to feed hundreds o people (in bloody desert)? Not to mention that hover bikes that noone saw for decades, oh yeah they can be fixed in couple of days by only changing the circuit board in mechanic shop in the middle of nowhere (whaaat?). And this Eden of course is built and led by the best and brightest from all over - scientists, engineers, medical personnel etc. I mean in any apocalyptic, dystopian story this would be the Holy Grail for all people to find and live there and it exists just outside of LA, few days ride away. I mean, what? I could just see common sense (and I mean it in terms of fiction story) going out the window.
As I said, this political element and preachiness just kills of the story.
In summary, interesting. But nowhere near the quality of the main Blade Runner series.… (more)