William Gibson's Archangel

Getting a look-see into Gibson’s visual sense of how his work should look is worth the price of admission, even understanding that there are many hands on each panel. Strong echoes of The Peripheral in the marines and the tech make it resonate more.My one complaint is that the panel density is so high that you really should read it on a huge monitor, rather than on the iPad as I did. It took me a while to realize that I had a blow up each sub panel to appreciate just how much work has gone into this piece of. Guess it means I’m gonna have to go back and put Kindle on another platform so that I get the full Monty.

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This was my first modern graphic novel, as I won't count the Superman comics and their like when I was a kid. It took a while to get used to the various plot lines and graphic animation involved. While I enjoyed the story, I only gave it 4 out of 5 stars simply because the story line and characters just didn't have the time to be revealed in depth. So, overall, OK, but I doubt I'll be following this format in the future.

It's a good story. It's a pretty standard mix of Gibson's usual character types (including the plucky heroine!) and it incorporates the "stub universe" concept he used in, "The Peripheral", but used in a different way.It's a short story, NOT a full blown novel, and if you read it expecting one you'll be disappointed. But if you take the story on it's own terms you'll have a good ride!

much too short. great artwork, but hard to follow whatever the barely scripted story was.. very jumbly & choppy.Ends abruptly. Not satisfying.But the art is pretty niceI'm a BIG fan of Gibson's, so this piece is sadly disappointing. Seems like it was hurriedly thrown together. Most of the (very short) book i could hardly follow what the "story" was supposed to be. Sort of a tangled ongoing "SMASH BANG" visuals of fighting that was poorly tossed togetherOnly the second time i've been at all disappointed with one of Gibson's creations -- the other was a rather bland & goofy story that he co-wrote, where the two authors patched together a collaborative writing which they sent back & forth to each other. That one rambled along blearlily and it was painful to make myself finish it.

He wrote one of my all-time fave SF novels, NEUROMANCER, and his status as progenitor of the cyberpunk style has never been seriously challenged. This graphic novel is a strong example of his writing prowess and the artists are first-rate; a fast, thrilling read.

Picked up the graphic novel in a bookstore and started reading it there... I couldn’t not finish it so I bought the Kindle version to do so. I did buy other books at the brick and mortar store, I promise!

This is ok but i'm really a fan of the Peripheral series. Was hoping for more of that but that's impossible in such a small format. Proud to own though. Looks good on the shelf. Maybe a good Gibson intro for my granddaughter who is 7.

William Gibson as inventive as ever, but prefer text to graphics.

To start with, this is one of those things where there propably can only be disappointment, if you are a fan of Gibson's books. I think the standard of his novels sets undue expectations on this entertaiment graphic novel.Here's a book where you'll recognise Gibson's trademark ability to write a an interesting storyline. The characters and the premise are interesting enough. What this inevitably lacks is the lavish attention to detail, that makes Gibson's novels so very compelling. One should not expect that in this kind of a format, at least not from the writing per se.Thus, in a graphic novel, the responsibility to paint the proverbial picture in front of us, falls in the hands of the artist. This is where I find archangel lacking. Whilst I admire Butch Guice for his ability to greate dynamic and cinematic visuals, the end result somehow looks a bit dated, and not in the best possible way. The inking and colors remind me of some of the late 80s and early 90s Marvel comics. This may be a stylistical effect, and quite intentional, perhaps meant to support the atmosphere of 1945.However much I want to like this book, I find myself struggling to do so. I think that had the illustration been done by Giuseppe Camuncoli and Simon Bisley, for example, the novel would have risen to a whole another level.I do hope this will not remain Gibson's only foray into the genre. Although perhaps not a masterpiece, it is a still a very good start.The story is interesting enough, but the somewhat old-skool'ish illustration creates a mismatch, that will prevent me from giving it four stars.So I'll give it there and a half here in the text, since one can't do it in the rating. All in all, I think it is a far better book than you might think based on the ratings here.P.S. Forgot to mentiin that the hardcover is of impeccable quality when it comes to quality of perint and/or paper.

I especially like Gibson’s notes on the collaborative side of the work. I would almost have liked a longer winded development, I find the facts a just thrown about with little complexity. The story is very well told, but too quickly.

A bit disappointing: I'm a big fan of Gibson and enjoy comics as a medium but this really did not deliver on the expectation. In the blurb the author talked about a comic allowing him to explore some ideas better than a novel or film. I finished the book wondering where exactly that was supposed to have happened.Certain worrying social themes are alluded to, in that they are present. I can't say I came away with a clear message or a new perspective or a challenge to think more on any of them, in the way I have done when reading many of his novels.There was no bleeding edge cool or highly researched or innovative exploration of worlds and circles I haven't encountered or considered before just some pedestrian time travel guff of the kind that seems to be popular at the moment.

Read and completely forgotten.I am writing this review after almost a year that I bought it and completely forgot everything about the story, which I usually don't. This means that there's nothing that stroke me or interested me to the point that I kept it in mind.