Northlanders Vol. 2: The Cross and the Hammer
by:
Brian Wood (author)
Dean Ormston (author)
Ryan Kelly (author)
See why Entertainment Weekly calls DMZ writer Brian Wood's fresh take on Viking lore, NORTHLANDERS, "a well researched, richly realized world that illuminates politics and culture without getting bogged down in history-book stuff."This volume focuses on Lindisfarne, England; an ancient center of...
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See why Entertainment Weekly calls DMZ writer Brian Wood's fresh take on Viking lore, NORTHLANDERS, "a well researched, richly realized world that illuminates politics and culture without getting bogged down in history-book stuff."This volume focuses on Lindisfarne, England; an ancient center of religion and learning that was the infamous site of the first Viking raid on a monastery. Witness the vicious attack from the perspective of a native - a young Saxon boy who dreams of the larger world, of better things, of heroes and myths and foreign gods. Are the Vikings what he's been waiting for?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781401222963 (140122296X)
Publish date: August 4th 2009
Publisher: Vertigo
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Adventure,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Ireland,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Comix,
Comic Book
Series: Northlanders (#2)
This arc is trying to do something cool (if, yes, unabashedly and ridonkulously anachronistic) with a crime scene investigator/criminal profiler in occupied medieval Ireland, but the muddled storytelling doesn't do it any favors. Also, so many unlikeable people again!
Vol 1 is still my fav of the series. But this was still fun. One character was a very tongue-in-cheek nod towards Horatio Crane/CSI Miami.
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