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The Old Guard: Tales Through Time (Old Guard, 1)
K**I
Through the ages
I really enjoyed this book. It contains twelve medium to short stories. Every story is excellent. It complements the main books brilliantly. They add insights snd gives a look at each of the main characters.This is a must have for any fan of the Old Guard. Showing more of the main characters personalities, their pleasures and pain of imortality. The book finishes with a cover gallery of full page of all the issue covers and the one of each varient covers.
P**R
Warrior memories
There have been two volumes so far of comics series 'the Old Guard'. Which also got a movie on netflix. The story is about a group of warriors who are very long lived because they develop a healing ability. They're not necessarily immortal, but that's all a mystery the series is yet to go into.This is a collection of stories involving the main characters from the Old Guard. All telling tales set at points in their past. Since four of them have lived a very long time indeed, that means there's a lot of scope for such. This might work as a read for those who haven't seen the film or read the other volumes, but I don't think you will know enough about the characters, should that be the case, in order to get into it. So go to the Old Guard book one for a jumping on point.This is a mature readers comic, so expect adult moments, violence, and strong language. A plenty.Being an anthology comic, it has twelve stories. Each of which run twelve pages. Approx. Not all of them are done by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez, the creators of the comic. They just do the first and last ones. The other ten are by different writers and artists. Each time.The format is thus something that happened in the past. To one of the main characters. Since of course Nile, the new and fifth member of the group, is only twenty seven, she doesn't get to feature quite so much as the other four.Anthologies are always a mixed bag. You will find some that you really think stand out for you. Some that are decent but not stellar. And some that might not quite do it for you. The opening story, Andy telling Nile about her most precious possession, is really good. It being narrated perhaps makes it work the best. The others, despite being by different people each time, do start to slip into a bit of a pattern after a while. One set in feudal Japan didn't grab me, but that is perhaps down to how the story is told.All the others are solid. They have a good punch at the time. But perhaps because of the format ultimately being a little repetitive, they don't stick in the mind so long.This is billed as volume one. So there might be more to come. But things seem to have gone quiet on that front. It's a perfectly good collection all in all and worth reading if you liked the rest of the series. But it's only four stars from me as it just didn't blow me away enough to make it worth more.There's a gallery of covers from the issues at the back. And of the creators as well. Which is interesting.
D**S
Wonderful Read
For any fan of Rucka's characters or simply the first (I understand that there is another in development) Netflix movie this book provides an excellent background with wonderful stories. There are twelve stories, of varying lengths, from twelve authors and twelve plus artists.A wonderful book to gently browse through reading one at a time to make stretch the experience out.Unreservedly recommended to any and all.
C**.
Interesting and insightful
If the creators chose to do nothing but tell stories full of action, that would be satisfactory. Instead, they give you the action and the humanity. These are people and people live lives and lives gather stories that can't be 'just' fights. The stories are what make the plots and actions mean something.
P**C
Très bien
Très bien
V**A
Nice addition to the main series!
Avendo già letto la serie principale di The Old Guard, ho apprezzato molto queste brevi storie che ci spiegano qualcosa in più sulla vita (così lunga) dei personaggi. Ho apprezzato principalmente le storie di Booker con il figlio e il “sequel” della storia di Andy e Achilles.Mi si perdonerà questa digressione ma la storia di The Old Guard mi affascina molto, più che per la trama, per i sei (sette contando Lykon) peculiari personaggi ideati dagli autori. Io li vedo come dei topos, dei rappresentanti dei diversi stadi della storia dell’umanità. Ho voluto immaginare che un nuovo Immortale si sia presentato quando qualcosa di fondamentale è cambiato nella storia della razza umana. Andy e Noriko/Quỳnh sono le prime, le più antiche, nate prima che l’uomo inventasse la scrittura: sono donne preistoriche, guerriere, probabilmente entrambe (di Noriko non sappiamo) provenienti da una società matriarcale pre-Indoeuropea. Lykon, ma potrei averlo interpretato male, è un uomo dell’Impero Romano, rappresenta le prime società avanzate patriarcali, infatti lui ed Andy litigano ferocemente. Ma poi inspiegabilmente muore – chissà, forse proprio alla caduta dell’Impero? Ed ecco che qualche centinaio di anni dopo arrivano Niccolò e Yusuf: sono i due uomini che rappresentano le maggiori religioni monoteistiche che domineranno il mondo nei secoli a venire, con le loro innumerevoli contraddizioni, eppure gli unici del gruppo saldi e sempre ottimisti verso il prossimo (per come li vedo io). Booker arriva solo molto dopo, ed è l’uomo della Rivoluzione Industriale; incarna il dramma dell’uomo moderno, col suo male di vivere perennemente irrisolto, mai accettato. Nile arriva nel presente, e la nostra società è post-moderna, a pezzi, la peggiore che Andy abbia mai visto (a sentire lei e Noriko discuterne in Force Multiplied). Nile è la prima donna a diventare immortale dalla preistoria – forse a volerci dire che come razza umana abbiamo fatto un giro così largo da essere tornati ai tempi di Andy, dove ci si ammazzava a colpi di ascia per un cavallo e un ettaro di terra in più? La religione (Nick e Joe) e il progresso (Booker) non ci hanno aiutati. Serve una nuova guerriera per tentare di mettere qualche pezza a questo nostro mondo disastrato.Partendo da questa digressione, da italiana trovo estremamente interessanti e pienissimi di potenziale questi personaggi che hanno vissuto per millenni principalmente nel vecchio mondo (presumibilmente girovagando tra Europa, Asia e Africa prima che fossero scoperte l’America e poi l’Australia). Avrei gradito moltissimo vederli in qualche storia in più basata su qualche avvenimento storico del passato in Africa, Europa o Asia. L’unica storia che vede Noriko in un Giappone feudale mi è sembrata troppo stereotipata. Tutte le altre sono collocate nell’ultimo secolo, e quasi tutte in America perché gli autori delle storie sono tutti americani. Semmai Rucka e Fernandez decidessero di continuare questa collana, mi piacerebbe tantissimo che contattassero autori esteri, ma forse sono troppo ambiziosa… il budget non sarà così alto da coinvolgere fumettisti da tutto il mondo.Ad ogni modo, lettura consigliata per i fan della serie!
B**S
Great series!
Splendid anthology stuff, but only substitute medication for the continuation of the main series. Read it all, recommendation!
D**W
A Very Nice Add-on
Greg Rucka always does his homework, and these stories set in the 'Andyverse' are all excellent. That being said, 'The Old Guard' may be heading off to the 'Lazarus' graveyard. The pattern is similar. First some stellar stories, then a hiatus, with a series of stories fleshing out the universe, followed by nothing more. Will there be a second movie? Perhaps. Except for Andy's sudden mortality, the first movie was excellent. Time for hopes and prayers.
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