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Title: Delicate Creatures by J. Michael Straczynski, Michael Zulli, Steve Firchow ISBN: 1-58240-225-6 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: The Most Poorly Written Story I've Ever Read
Comment: This is an amazingly bad story. It presents itself as a whimsical fairy tale, but ends up just being a cheap revenge tale; you know the kind, where the author sets up terrible atrocities so that you get the satisfaction of having the bad guys get slaughtered at the end. The story introduces all sorts of potentially interesting-sounding characters, which it then tells you nothing about and play no part in the story.
The story is a tour of every bad writing mistake one can make. The abused main character "Princess" for no understandable reason becomes all-powerful halfway through in order to get her revenge. The style jumps all over the place. It's full of cliches that dont even work together. And the writing is just embarrassing. Listen to this:
"[Trifle] said a word she had never said before to an Owner (leaving aside the fact that before today she had never said anything to an Owner). 'No,' she said."
This is a ridiculous attempt to be dramatic but it makes no sense. The author even realizes his mistake but instead of correcting it, he comments on it and leaves it there. And this kind of innocence-perceiving-horror is everywhere in the book, this "Daddy, why is that man pulling out a knife? Why is he plunging it into mommy's neck?" The story is just coarse and cheap and senseless. Do not buy it if you're older, and unless your intention is to traumatize, do not buy it for a child.
Rating: 4
Summary: A Darker Type Of Fairy Tale.
Comment: Delicate Creatures shatters whatever preconceived notions you might have about Fairy Tales. Starting with a breezy introduction, where we get to know the various Fairies and Sprites inhabiting the walls of a Castle in an anonymous foreign land, the story quickly moves into darker territory, dealing with the real-life terrors of war and genocide. The darker aspects of the tale are dealt with honestly, but delicately enough that younger readers will be able to deal with them. There were parts of the story that brought a lump to my throat; I think that parents and children reading together would find a lot to discuss about Delicate Creatures, particularly the themes of love and loss. The story is told in prose, with occasional illustrations by Artist Michael Zulli. Zulli's art is fantasic and the lush colors (By Steve Firchow) make the pictures come to life. The story, by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski, is gut-wrenching at times, but in true Fairy-Tale fashion, things turn out ok in the end. I believe all involved have created a new classic, one that will hopefully be discovered by Parents and Children alike in years to come.
Rating: 5
Summary: NOT FOR SMALL CHILDREN
Comment: A wonderful, thoroughly worthwhile book but with some very real mention of torture and other terrors that may be profoundly upsetting to the small - buy it for yourself, but please read carefully in it's entirety before you give this to a child- and know the trauma threshold of the child in question. The tone of the jacket and opening pages is not representative of the work throughout.
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Title: Midnight Nation by J. Michael Straczynski, Gary Frank ISBN: 1582402728 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Power (Rising Stars, Book 2) by J. Michael Straczynski ISBN: 1582402264 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rising Stars : Born In Fire (Vol. 1) by J. Michael Straczynski ISBN: 1582401721 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rising Stars: Visitations by J. M. Straczynski ISBN: 158240268X Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $8.99 |
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Title: The Amazing Spider-Man: Until the Stars Turn Cold by J. Michael Straczynski, John, Jr. Romita, Scott Hanna ISBN: 0785110755 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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