Anita Blake Vh Guilty Pleasures
Graphic Novel Summary: Written by Laurell. K. Hamilton; adapted by Stacie Ritchie and Jess Ruffner-Booth; penciled by Brett Booth From Marvel Comics. A special Second Printing of the blockbuster collection with a cover by James Jean! Scheduled to ship 10/10/2007 (161)
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| Artist: | Brett Booth |
| Author: | Laurell K. Hamilton |
| Cover Artist: | Brett Booth |
| Author: | Various |
| Cover Artist: | Bret Booth | In Stock? | Not currently available |
| ISBN: | 0785127239 |
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Customer Reviews
I really hope Laurell K. Hamilton, the author of the “Guilty Pleasures” novel adapted here, got paid. As a New York Times-bestselling author, perhaps a massive amount of money will help her sleep soundly, despite knowing Marvel produced this pile of crap with her name on it. Who knows? Maybe Laurell writes total shite, as well. That would at least be an excuse for six issues of “Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures” horribly written by Stacie Ritchie and collected in this TPB.
Anita Blake is a survivor of a vampire attack who has some mystical ability to raise the dead and lends investigatory and ass-kicking skills to the police. Sounds like a great start. But who would have thought that a character dubbed “Vampire Hunter” would be penned so emotionally weak and insecure? Embarrassing. The character interaction, and basically the entire story, consists of Anita Blake and supporting characters either eying each other seductively or issuing veiled threats to one another. Bitch-slaps occasionally thrown in for effect. Ritchie introduces and tosses the supporting characters with such abandon that I wonder what the point of introducing them was in the first place. By the end of this collected book, I basically don’t care if every character were to die. Including the main one. That’s not normal.
The art doesn’t help me enjoy this either. Brett Booth apparently can’t draw anything other than sullen emos and goths striking booby and ab showoff poses. Thank Imaginary Friends Studio for giving this tome of awkward and unvarying pin-ups an ounce of depth through digital coloring. The number of straight-on same-level face shots is LEGION. The number of fore-shortened poses is very very FEW. The number of wide-angle city-scapes or establishing shots is ZERO. Depth, perspective, and shading are simply not drawn. Damn, can I get A cross-hatch? Just ONE? If this is what passes for “hot” these days in comic-dom, I’ve got one word for it: Liefeld.
I gave it a shot, but “Anita Blake Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures Vol 1” left ME feeling guilty that I wasted $15 on such obvious comic book cheesecake. Thankfully I waited for the paperback instead of plunking down for the HC. And at least I can create a mental filter now that ensures I don’t buy anything more written by Stacie Ritchie or drawn by Brett Booth. Money in the BANK!
2 pts.