Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker

Posted on 17 October 2019 by Kieron Gillen

The Wicked The Divine writer Kieron Gillen teams up with artist supernova Stephanie Hans WicDiv, Journey Into Mystery for her first ongoing comic Die is a pitch black fantasy where a group of forty something adults have to deal with the returning, unearthly horror they only just survived as teenage role players If Kieron s in a rush, he describes it as Goth Jumanji , but that s only the tip of this obsidian iceberg.Collects issues 1 5 of Die. Best Download Die, Vol. 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker [ by ] Kieron Gillen [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr Six kids find themselves magically transported into a DD type board game Two years pass and only five kids return to the real world Twenty five years later, the five are transported back into the game only to find their missing sixth friend has become the evil grandmaster of the fantasy world and, this time, they must FINISH THE GAME Which means, uh they have tea and cakes and sing lovely songs about fish fingers I think it s meant to be menacing or something So Die is basically Six kids find themselves magically transported into a DD type board game Two years pass and only five kids return to the real world Twenty five years later, the five are transported back into the game only to find their missing sixth friend has become the evil grandmaster of the fantasy world and, this time, they must FINISH THE GAME Which means, uh they have tea and cakes and sing love...Everyone who has ever played a fantasy role playing game or, for that matter, first encountered fantasy literature as an impressionable young child has wondered what it would be like, if not devoutly wished, to be transported to the setting of that game Not everyone, however, has put the same degree of thought into it that Gillen has in craftin...I feel like Gillen has dropped the ball here Die has a brilliantly simple premise that mixes Jumanji, IT and Lord of the Rings With Gillen s usual writing style, it should have been a fun ride with jaw dropping twists, sharp snappy dialogue and fantastic characters Instead, this series has been nothing but a depressing, over narrated slog There are too many characters and none of them are likeable or interesting The story is too complicated, and the world building is so over engineered and I feel like Gillen has dropped the ball here Die has a brilliantly simple premise that mixes Jumanji, IT and Lord of the Rings With Gillen s usual writing style, it should have been a fun ride with jaw dropping twists, sharp snappy dialogue and fantastic characters Instead, this series has been nothing but a depressing, over narrated slog There are too many characters and none of them are likeable or interesting The story is too complicated, and the world building is so over engineered and overthought that it really gets in the way of the actual story With each issue Die left meandconfused, frustrated and sad, and that s not what I m used to expect from Kieron Gillen comics the guy is one of my favourite writers, after all The only good th...Man, I just couldn t get into this one So let me say I never played DnD and never really wanted to It s just not my thing This series is basically if DnD became a reality and you had to survive it So years ago a bunch of kids get sucked into this DnD world Once there horrible things had happen and they come back to the real world a few years later Then a time skip happens, they all become adults, and get sucked back into the game The tale begins to flip flop from the past, the present, Man, I just couldn t get into this one So let me say I never played DnD and never really wanted to It s just not my thing This series is basically if DnD became a reality and you had to survive it So years ago a bunch of kids get sucked into this DnD world Once there horrible things had happen and they come back to the real world a few years later Then a time skip happens, they all become adults, and get sucked back into the game The tale begins to flip flop f...This will be one of the best books of 2019, mark my words Gorgeous art, gripping story, awesome and relatable characters, perfect world building and a lot of fantasy pop culture references and jokes This book has everything.Alright guys I hate saying it but I don t like that there are SO many comics that a bunch of people love that I just don t get why Seriously, why do I have to miss the fun What s it about Basically there s this group of teenagers who had a role playing game party with all kinds of special crazy shit with their characters and special die The thing is they went missing the same day because they were transported into the game s fantasy world but returned 2 years later except for one 25 years Alright guys I hate saying it but I don t like that there are SO many comics that a bunch of people love that I just don t get why Seriously, why do I have to miss the fun What s it about Basically there s this group of teenagers who had a role playing game party with all kinds of special crazy shit with... Jumanji Welcome to the Dungeon. We ve got gloom and games As with The Wicked The Divine, Gillen delivers a perfectly fine high concept story and teams with a great artist, he just cannot come up with characters about whom I care one iota.JUMANJI meets Tolkien I was all ready to love this, but between the atrocious visual storytelling of Stephanie Hans and the waaaaay too Inside Baseball RPG references, I could not wait for it to end I ve never played D D, so I m c...I enjoy Kieron Gillen S writing style Some things were a miss for me butthings that I ve read were really good and I consider myself his fan Stephanie Hans was a new face for me and art wise this is a really stylised artist who knows how to make an impact.First two issues were wonderful The third was interesting The fourth was interestingand the fifth was home run Gillen crafted here a really compelling story with overlapping elements that are not visible at first glance I enjoy Kieron Gillen S writing style Some things were a miss for me butthings that I ve read were really good and I consider myself his fan Stephanie Hans was a new face for me and art wise this is a really stylised artist who knows how to make an impact.First two issues were wonderful The third was interesting The fourth was interestingand the fifth was home run Gillen crafted here a really compelling story with overlapping elements that are not visible at first glance Elements from DD have a brutally beautiful spin on them Grieff Knight , characters act reasonably parents act as parents and maniacs seem to flourish where there ismadness.Art helps this book to stand out Every page is like a painting and there would not be so good comic without Han s art Her faces are sometimes a little bit off but that is nitpicking Colouring her art with red, black and grey makes a stunning visual pallet, on... Die is a fantasy with a standard theme RPG players get sucked into their fantasy world It s good, in large part because it twists the genre just a bit, with our players returning to their fantasy realm in their adult lives, twenty years after they escaped And it s got fantasic art But we ve seen the core idea before, often to good effect in stories like The Guardians of The Flame, The Realm, and the DD cartoon For that matter, the idea itself is a twist on an older fantasy trope going Die is a fantasy with a standard theme RPG players get sucked into their fantasy world It s good, in large part because it twists the genre just a bit, with our players returning to their fantasy realm in their adult lives, twenty years after they escaped And it s got fantasic art But we ve seen the core idea before, often to good effect in stories like The Gua...

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17 October 2019

Kieron Gillen