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sizrobe's review against another edition
3.0
A team of space marines on a terraforming mission to Mars are beset by monsters. Sort of like Aliens mixed with body horror. Unfortunately the entire thing is rendered in red and black and it can be hard to tell what's going on. Flawed, but OK.
elysareadsitall's review against another edition
2.0
This graphic novel is a simple alien attack story. It's just about the fight with little background on the humans or aliens. There's a cheating spouse plotline wedged in for some reason though. The art is all red, black, and white with red being the primary color. I liked that idea, but it ended up being really hard to determine what was going on in some places.
mewpasaurus's review
3.0
I have to give this three out of five stars. It's not the the story is bad or unreadable, but because I felt that the art style of this book (while visually very interesting) is so chaotic that parts of the story are incomprehensible and confusing.
I understand that that is part of the story, given the circumstances, but I think in the end, it overwhelmed the storyline and made it very hard to keep organized.
The ending also didn't make quite a lot of sense to me and in the end, I had to read alternate interpretations to piece together what exactly the ending signifies.
I understand that that is part of the story, given the circumstances, but I think in the end, it overwhelmed the storyline and made it very hard to keep organized.
The ending also didn't make quite a lot of sense to me and in the end, I had to read alternate interpretations to piece together what exactly the ending signifies.
andrael's review
2.0
I wanted to like this book. Freaky sci-fi horror, tough female leads, cool-looking art style. But the sad truth is that most of the time I could barely puzzle out what was going on.
The characters are reasonably distinct from each other in terms of facial features, hair, etc. (as you can see from the cover). But they're all wearing the same uniform; and once they put on environmental suits with helmets, it's extremely difficult to tell one from the other. Combine that with a lot of tight closeups, quick transitions, and murky red-filled panels, and I found myself getting quite lost. I couldn't keep track of which characters were dead or alive, which ones were being attacked and which ones were escaping, which ones were together and which ones were in a different location, and so on. The loose, brushy art style I so admired would seem to lend itself well to gory horror; but again, for a lot of panels I couldn't tell if I was looking at a monster, a mangled corpse, a tight closeup of someone's sweaty face, or a pile of random debris.
The characters are reasonably distinct from each other in terms of facial features, hair, etc. (as you can see from the cover). But they're all wearing the same uniform; and once they put on environmental suits with helmets, it's extremely difficult to tell one from the other. Combine that with a lot of tight closeups, quick transitions, and murky red-filled panels, and I found myself getting quite lost. I couldn't keep track of which characters were dead or alive, which ones were being attacked and which ones were escaping, which ones were together and which ones were in a different location, and so on. The loose, brushy art style I so admired would seem to lend itself well to gory horror; but again, for a lot of panels I couldn't tell if I was looking at a monster, a mangled corpse, a tight closeup of someone's sweaty face, or a pile of random debris.
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