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Summary: RECOMAND THIS
Review: This is a comic book that's so creative it hurts. The red hoods being a next of kin of the big band wolf and little read riding hood, having to kill werewolves. This is finally a story of vampires that took a creative new look at it and even rewrote vampire history, not having to stick with the same old rules. For this comic they made there own rules, and it works great. COMPELLING STORY and GREAT DRAWING what more can you ask for. I'm an art student from one of the top schools of art in California, so I know good drawing when I see it.
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Summary: Ultimate Spidey meets U. X-Men meets Blade!
Review: This was a great book, Top-Notch! I read about three pannels in the book store and knew it would become one of my new favorite titles... And it has! It stars young teenager, Alex Elder, who is bitten by a murderous vampire gang late in New York and becomes a confused (Spider-Man), outcast (X-Men), Vampire (Blade). Fantastic story telling and the art... Well now I've got "Ramos Envy." I suggest this book to anyone who can read and has an imagination. Doesn't matter if you have previous vampire readings or never even herd the word, this is right up there with Brian M. Bendis! (Make sure to get the other books!)
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Summary: Ultimate Spidey meets U. X-Men meets Blade!
Review: This was a great book, Top-Notch! I read about three pannels in the book store and knew it would become one of my new favorite titles... And it has! It stars young teenager, Alex Elder, who is bitten by a murderous vampire gang late in New York and becomes a confused (Spider-Man), outcast (X-Men), Vampire (Blade). Fantastic story telling and the art... Well now I've got "Ramos Envy." I suggest this book to anyone who can read and has an imagination. Doesn't matter if you have previous vampire readings or never even herd the word, this is right up there with Brian M. Bendis! (Make sure to get the other books!)
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Summary: Good introduction
Review: When Cliffhanger was first announced everybody was full of anticipation about the upcoming Madureira and Cambell projects. Many overlooked Ramos' Crimson. I must honestly admit that, although I decided to get all three titles to see for myself anyway, I was expecting the least of Ramos' title as well. I've read al three series myself by now and it's funny but I must conclude that for me Crimson is the best series of the three.The book this review is about ("Loyalty & Loss") collects the first 6 issues of the series. It starts of with an explanation which races currently walk the earth and how it all became what it is today through an altered version of the story of God creating the earth (a little tough to read at first but neccesary knowledge to understand what's going on later). After that we move on to the introduction of the main-character of the title, Alex Elder, getting turned into a vampire, his struggle with acceptance of his fate, and him refusing to let go of his past. And as if Alex isn't having a hard enough time already, a creature named Ekimus appears who calls him "The chosen one" and "Destined to be the last Vampire", which confuses Alex even more than he already is (all this is pretty good reading). After this intro (which all happens in the first 3 issues) the main story starts to unfold with #4 and from there it gets even better. We learn about different vampire clans, different categories of neck-biters, the 'Children of Judas' AND 'The order of the Red Hood' who's goal it is to extinct all blood-suckers. It's really nice to see Alex not wanting to let go of his humanity, trying to cling on to his former life, and him developing certain powers all the time which neither he nor Ekimus thought possible. The intention of the story is to be a drama-story in which it succeeds pretty good, but it's also nice to see that the book isn't taken TOO seriously and that it also turns out to be a funny story every now a and then with punchlines and pun (and the interaction between Alex and Scarlet X, one of the sisters of the Red Hood, is really fun). It's totally not your typical vampire book but pretty original an funny instead. The artwork by Ramos is better than any previous work I've seen of him and he does well to avoid getting TOO cartoony, leaving the artwork suitable for drama and gore (which it has plenty) but staying fun and easy for the eye as well. The 'special effects' are powerfull as well. If you are gonna get ONE Cliffhanger title I think this one is the best choice, and this book is the right place to start. In all fairness I must say that the next Crimson TPB is better but you need to read this one first to know what's going on (And like I said, it IS pretty good. Only the next one is even better).
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Summary: Vampires, Vampires Everywhere...
Review: WOW!! This collection of the first 6 CRIMSON issues will blow you away. With its fantastic artwork by Humberto Ramos to it compelling storyline from Brian Augustyn. Sure you might think it's another 'vampire with a conscious story' (which it is) but, it's a 'vampire with lots of new freaky unvampy like powers who is the 'Chosen One to defeat all evil conscious story' story. With a really cool supporting cast with Ekimus (one of the first living creatures on the planet), a voluptiously clad religous bounty hunter babe, the legendary St. George, and his vamp-indian best friend. You'll find yourself wanting more and more CRIMSON after finishing this first compilation. RECOMMENDED to all!!!!!
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