author: Dan Luvisi
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.87
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2014/02/09
date added: 2014/02/09
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
Last Man Standing: Killbook of a Bounty Hunter by Dan Luvisi is an interesting and hard to classify work. It’s a gorgeous graphic project, but not a graphic novel. It looks like the inner information for a video game, and yet, it’s an original work. It’s laid out like a scrapbook, but it does manage to tell a story of sorts.
It’s a weird future where the world has been changed into groups of mutants, samurai, underground rebels and others. Gabriel was once a hero in this land until he was framed and sent to deep level detention. When all seems helpless, he is aided in his escape and sent out to get revenge. The killbook is his scrapbook of information about the world he is going into. There are stats on enemies and possible friends, weapon descriptions, food, magazine covers, etc.
A fun part is at the end of the book where other artists do their renditions of the characters. I don’t know if this is supposed to be a pitch for a videogame, but I’d play it, for sure. Detailed and interesting.
I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for letting me review this graphic novel.
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