Daniel X: The Manga, Vol. 2

Daniel X: The Manga #2

by James Patterson, James Patterson, Ned Rust

In the sleepy town of Holliswood, a twisted alien TV producer is using his powers to throw the town into chaos - and documenting every minute of it. Fresh from his victory over Number 6, Daniel X is the only one who can stop this made-for-TV tyrant, but the devilish director has other plans. He wants to film the most spectacular finale the world has ever seen, starring Daniel himself! Can the Alien Hunter take down this deranged outlaw, or will he find himself on the cutting room floor?!

Genres: Manga, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Science Fiction, Adventure, Comics, Fiction

207 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2011

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James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time and the creator of such unforgettable characters and series as Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride. He has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Michael Crichton, as well as collaborated on #1 bestselling nonfiction, including The Idaho Four, Walk in My Combat Boots, and Filthy Rich. Patterson has told the story of his own life in the #1 bestselling autobiography James Patterson by James Patterson. He is the recipient of an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.

Reviews

[Reem Ghabbany · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh my god!!! This was so bad!!! I had to force myself to finish it cause I don't like leaving a book unfinished
But oh my god! I can't think of one good thing about this story!! It sucks

[Jim · Rating 1 out of 5]

Look kids a novel in which every childbearing aged woman in a small town over the age of 14 is raped every month. Dr. Wertham was right.

The plot - fish shaped aliens come down to nowhere mid-america and hypnotize the residents into doing their best Tony Manero moves while being filmed for a galaxy wide reality show then dying on live TV. The aliens need to reproduce so they can take over earth so send women "caviar" (eggs, clever, yes?) which they eat and become pregnant and give birth every thirty days.

Here's the lesson girls, the one the don't teach in jr. high sex-ed - if a guy wants you to swallow his ejaculate you can become pregnant! (That's a phrase i never thought i'd write in a book review).

But there is a good guy alien (he has a hologram girlfriend he created, even better than a playboy centerfold or a youtube video) that attends the local high school and has the hots for the home schooled 16 year old that didn't eat the caviar because of how Russians harvest the eggs.

Together the two of them and hologram girl friend and a couple other people that might be aliens or holograms or whatever save the planet (or do they..? see the next volume).

He does a mind wipe on the town and home-schooler, so goes young love, and everything goes back to normal.

But what about the hundreds of pregnant women including school teachers, many of who have already given birth and are pregnant again? SPOILER - they were just plot devices, female ones at that, so they don't matter.

(This reminds me of Carol Danver's aka Ms. Marvel's, rape in the Avengers comic thirty years ago, one issue just moved the story an inch and who cares, she was only a female character.)

Since this will be picked up in a jr. high or high school library what lessons can you learn? Women get over rape quickly, and if you're really clever they won't be smart enough to know. Women can pop a kid out and be over it in a day. Your teacher is lying to you about how you can get pregnant, remember you read it in a comic book!

i hope the original book was better, i've never read patterson and don't plan to now.

[Christofer · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book star of in a dining place where a couple of alien come through and mess with the music systems the people eating gets up and starts to dance util they found out the Daniel was coming from they they stopped and went with he humans for the TV show. Later on in the boo there excitement and a funny moments but in the end he wins barley and get criticized by his molecule made up friends.

[Jenan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hated that he erased Judy's memory. I know it's for the best..but I liked them together just how I liked him with Phoebe (I hope I'm not mistaken with the name) in the first volume.

[Berkeley Poder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Abigail ramirez Meet Daniel a teen-age boy who spends his life fighting and getting rid of Aliens on the run. In book one Daniel fights off alien number 6 and now he is after number 5. Along the way Daniel meets Judy a girl about his age that works at the dinner and was the first victim to number 5ś mind countrol. so will Daniel be able to get ride of a alien once again or will Daniel finally meet his fate.

[Michael Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy reading these Manga versions after reading the novels... they help me visualize (and sometimes understand!) things I missed in the novels. The occasional changes from the novel to the GN are usually a little jarring though.

[Liv (LivTheBookNerd) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dialogue cheesy, story kind of predictable, art really well drawn, plot line interesting
4/5 stars

[Fred Buchanan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really recommend this book for people that like manga. It contains good action and strong emotions. For example, The quote, "Now I'll never be able to prove they weren't my parents." (Patterson 193) This quote shows us how emotional Daniel was after he killed Number 5's catfish form with his parent's medallions. The way he killed Number 5's catfish form with his parent's medallions is that there was a thunderstorm while he was fighting Number 5, so he conducted lighting to the silver medallions while holding Number 5's arm. This is why I recommend this book, because it shows strong emotions and good action.

[Daniel Te · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Daniel X books really don't have the most fleshed out characters, but the action with Daniel's super overpowered abilities just make this always a blast. And now in manga form? Like, honestly this is amazing. Not much to say here besides that it's the same as book 2 in the Daniel X series.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

More interesting than the first one. I do want to see where this goes.

[R · Rating 4 out of 5]

Weird and interesting. Quite a unique storyline.

[John Cornelius · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed this as much as the first one!

[Nida · Rating 5 out of 5]

my favorite book

[Unisha S]

Really awesome

[Melly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Its very interesting and I like the manga cover too

[Razan ☯︎ · Rating 4 out of 5]

judy ABSOLUTELY carried the book which is why it’s a 4 star, but if she wasn’t in it i wouldn’t mind giving it a 2

[Sydnee Mccra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love it

[Mica]

3.5

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Again, just as good as the first one.

[PottWab Regional Library]

SM

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's really interesting it basically involves aliens and it's a manga book so I love the manga books I'll read any Manga book I can get my hands onto!

[Sathursan.K · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book "Daniel X Vol.2" talks about how Daniel X is searching for number 5 after defeating number 6 last time. This time, the alien is living in the mysterious town of Holliswood. He meets number 5 and number 21 but failed. Then with his imaginary friends and family, Daniel X was able to find out the evil plot of number 5. He finds out with a girl named "Judy" that he's multiplying in the town so he can rule the broadcasting and media world. With help from his dad, he was able to struck down number 21 quickly but number 5 isn't easier than he thought. With his knowledge of the alien's electrical power, he used his parent's necklace made out of silver to defeat number 5 and stop his evil plot from happening.

I chose this book because this book is the second book of the Daniel X's series in manga version. The book is liked the hard copy but with pictures and the story is faster.

I read this book because it was interested on how Daniel X's life changed after the murder of his parents and sister. This book had lots of science fictions with the fact of Daniel being the Earth's only alien hunter.

I would recommend this book to those who would want to read James Patterson's Daniel X's series in a manga version. I would recommend this book to Jerry after he read vol.1 and see how good the book is.

[Nigarsan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Daniel X,Vol 2 by James Patterson
This book is about a young teenager named "Daniel X" who's job is to hunt down the world's most deadliest aliens after an alien on the list killed his parents.In the book,he faces the fifth most deadliest alien who had gone insane in doing movies of humans as actors doing whatever he wants and then killing them.Now,he have a big challenge up in his sleeve that he thinks that he could do it.But can he face the alien or be defeated?

I chose this book because it was he second book in the "Daniel X" series and I found the first book to be interesting in this manga book by James Patterson.

I read this not only it was the second book of the series,it is that it was an amazing book to read,especially what the book is about.

i would recommend this book to anyone who read the first book and/or interested in aliens,adventure and books made from James Patterson

[RDUK · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was pretty good. A great sequel to the first one. I love the graphics in this book (I love all of the graphics by the illustrator or the James Patterson graphic novels) and when I was looking up the real book compared to this book, it seemed like everything was pretty much the same other than the title. Although, my opinion isn't valid for I have not read the novel by James Patterson yet. When I read books that have a "villain" in them, I always love it when the author gives them an original personality instead of the stereotypical bad-guy. For example, in this book I loved how James Patterson decided to make the alien someone who films their victims for a show, then kills them once he's done. I found this an interesting way for an evil character to pose a threat to society, but, like I said earlier, I love it when the villain is original and unique.

[Alex Zhang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Daniel X volume 2 is a very interesting manga that is set on another world in our universe. The manga sets upon Daniel's alien hunting journey and ventures deeper into the tragical history of Daniel. In volume 2, the book brings me deeper into Daniel's world, as the ranking of the aliens became higher and higher, Daniel must face himself with the extreme situations that puts himself in grave danger. Although the story plot is very interesting, the story line became too predictable, such as using lightning to strike the enemy, or using parents items to turn into a weapon, these plots has been found very cliche in books.

[Soobie is expired · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe a bit weaker than the first one.

I quite like the villain and its enderteinment in this volume but the story with Daniel doesn't progress as I expected. I still don't understand how the whole making-up friends works for Daniel, but yeah his friends and family are always there with him. Too bad that he has to wipe Judy's memory out: in the end he spends more time with figments of his imagination than with real people.

The caviar thing was just disgusting... I don't even want to think about it!

Well, let's wait till volume #3 arrives and then I'll make up my mind about the series.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. Although I didn't like it as much as the first. I'm excited to pick up the last one of the Daniel X series though. I'm hoping it'll be a little better than the second.

What surprised me about the second book is that although it carried on the plot of Daniel X hunting aliens, it struck me as a little weird. It wasn't as funny either, which surprised me.

When I finished the book I found more of Patterson's books(in manga version) that I'd like to check out. I recommend this to anyone who likes a little action, adventure, and science fiction!

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

In this sequel, I can say I enjoyed the premise of the story along with its art. But I would rate it more as 3.5-3.6 stars because unless you read recently the first one you would find this one much more fast-paced with knowledge coming from the prior book. I would advise people to definitely read the first before checking in on the second or the idea that Daniel can conjure up people and objects may go over your head at first. Even I had a few questions at the end that need answering.

[Hannah Belyea · Rating 3 out of 5]

Daniel and his "imaginary" pals are on the tail of an extraterrestrial television producer, who seems to be drawing an innocent human town into his plans - and if they can't figure out his final scheme, their deaths could end up being an intergalactic sensation. Ledwidge & Kye once again capture the silly charm of Daniel X with their clean artwork and humour. Daniel will be cutting it close as a deadly finale draw nears...

[Shannon Mcmanis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book changed the way I look at things. For starters: I can never look at caviar again. :( Also, I will never eat Catfish. EVER. The manga adaption was good, and very fast paced. I would give the book 4.3 stars out of 5. I have gotta hand it to James Patterson for those plot twist though some of them were wrong and disgusting. However, I still recommend this book. It is really good! Ciao!