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Egypt #Complete
Egipto
Recopilatorio integral de "Egypt", miniserie de Peter Milligan del sello Vertigo anunciado para febrero de 2011.
Desde su desembarco en Estados Unidos en 1989 con la miniserie Skreemer, el británico Peter Milligan se convirtió -por la originalidad de sus propuestas en títulos como Shade,el hombre cambiante, Enigma, The Extremist o Blanco Humano- en un autor de referencia dentro del sello Vertigo, aportando además una visión renovada y transgresoradel género superheroico en la serie X-Force/X-Statix. En los últimos tiempos, Milligan continúa sorprendiendo en series tan recomendables como Greek Street
o Hellblazer.
Mediante un antiguo ritual mágico, Vincent Me se ve arrastrado de su anodina existencia enla Nueva York actual a la gloria del antiguo Egipto, una tierra llena de misterio y corrupciónen la que la magia impera y los dioses y sacerdotes gobiernan sobre los vulgares mortales. Un confundido Vincent debe descubrir su destino al tiempo que enfrenta conspiraciones divinas y amenazas terrenas para desvelar los secretos de la vida y la muerte, en una aventura en laque la recompensa está más allá de la inmortalidad.
Desde su desembarco en Estados Unidos en 1989 con la miniserie Skreemer, el británico Peter Milligan se convirtió -por la originalidad de sus propuestas en títulos como Shade,el hombre cambiante, Enigma, The Extremist o Blanco Humano- en un autor de referencia dentro del sello Vertigo, aportando además una visión renovada y transgresoradel género superheroico en la serie X-Force/X-Statix. En los últimos tiempos, Milligan continúa sorprendiendo en series tan recomendables como Greek Street
o Hellblazer.
Mediante un antiguo ritual mágico, Vincent Me se ve arrastrado de su anodina existencia enla Nueva York actual a la gloria del antiguo Egipto, una tierra llena de misterio y corrupciónen la que la magia impera y los dioses y sacerdotes gobiernan sobre los vulgares mortales. Un confundido Vincent debe descubrir su destino al tiempo que enfrenta conspiraciones divinas y amenazas terrenas para desvelar los secretos de la vida y la muerte, en una aventura en laque la recompensa está más allá de la inmortalidad.
184 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1995
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About the author
Peter Milligan
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Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.
Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).
Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Peter Milligan is a British writer, best known for his work on X-Force / X-Statix, the X-Men, & the Vertigo series Human Target. He is also a scriptwriter.
He has been writing comics for some time and he has somewhat of a reputation for writing material that is highly outlandish, bizarre and/or absurd.
His highest profile projects to date include a run on X-Men, and his X-Force revamp that relaunched as X-Statix.
Many of Milligan's best works have been from DC Vertigo. These include: The Extremist (4 issues with artist Ted McKeever) The Minx (8 issues with artist Sean Phillips) Face (Prestige one-shot with artist Duncan Fegredo) The Eaters (Prestige one-shot with artist Dean Ormston) Vertigo Pop London (4 issues with artist Philip Bond) Enigma (8 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo) and Girl (3 issues with artist Duncan Fegredo).
Series:
* Human Target
* Greek Street
* X-Force / X-Statix
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May 28, 2018
Oh god! Make it stop! Make it stop!
What begins as a cult driven murder gone wrong swiftly devolves into a swirling cacophony of nonsensical awfulness that only is exceeded by its continual bevy of min-boggling weirdness. Each and every page seeks to bring in another panoply of persons and divine personel that sloshes across seven issue of ever compounding weirdness. Thus it is that the story finds itself is riddled with an unending series of excretive echoes that reverberate within each other again and again.
Excess, historical errors, and an uneven application of linguistic choice spread like a virus across each and every turn of the papyrus. Infecting characters and bastardizing history alike, Egypt scorches eyeballs and minds alike with its white hot oddity. Blasting within this perverted pastiche is a vile undercurrent of incest that is overtly displayed without a single scintilla of opprobrium.
Lacking a structure and or the slightest inkling of a plot, Egypt reduces to the comic book equivalent of Free Jazz but stripped of any talent nor organization. With no theme beyond the cosmetic, the actions taken within aren’t pursuant toward an eventual crossing line but are merely a stream of action and reactions coursing this way and that.
I could go on at length but, I’d rather just go read a better comic book. And so should you.
What begins as a cult driven murder gone wrong swiftly devolves into a swirling cacophony of nonsensical awfulness that only is exceeded by its continual bevy of min-boggling weirdness. Each and every page seeks to bring in another panoply of persons and divine personel that sloshes across seven issue of ever compounding weirdness. Thus it is that the story finds itself is riddled with an unending series of excretive echoes that reverberate within each other again and again.
Excess, historical errors, and an uneven application of linguistic choice spread like a virus across each and every turn of the papyrus. Infecting characters and bastardizing history alike, Egypt scorches eyeballs and minds alike with its white hot oddity. Blasting within this perverted pastiche is a vile undercurrent of incest that is overtly displayed without a single scintilla of opprobrium.
Lacking a structure and or the slightest inkling of a plot, Egypt reduces to the comic book equivalent of Free Jazz but stripped of any talent nor organization. With no theme beyond the cosmetic, the actions taken within aren’t pursuant toward an eventual crossing line but are merely a stream of action and reactions coursing this way and that.
I could go on at length but, I’d rather just go read a better comic book. And so should you.
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October 20, 2015One of the old Vertigo books I assumed would only ever exist as tattered singles finally gets a collection next year. Typically trippy Milligan magic, much of it enhanced by wonderful art from Steve Dillon's far too seldom-seen brother Glyn.
October 1, 2014
Good stuff. Time travel and Egyptian Gods. Right up my alley.
August 3, 2018
This is a classic with all the merit. And it will, probably, be fully enjoyable many years from now.
October 31, 2022
This is typical of Vertigo circa 1990's. And that ain't a bad thing. One of the things I like about comics is that they can be the best of both worlds of cinema and literature.
What is great about Milligan's Egypt is that it takes you on a journey unlike anything you will probably ever encounter in any form. It is an odyssey of sorts, a young man's journey through several lifetimes, encountering the major deities of Ancient Egypt along the way.
At times I wondered and marveled at Milligan's creative use of Ancient Egypt.
In the end, I couldn't tell you what the story is all about, but that doesn't really matter does it?
What is great about Milligan's Egypt is that it takes you on a journey unlike anything you will probably ever encounter in any form. It is an odyssey of sorts, a young man's journey through several lifetimes, encountering the major deities of Ancient Egypt along the way.
At times I wondered and marveled at Milligan's creative use of Ancient Egypt.
In the end, I couldn't tell you what the story is all about, but that doesn't really matter does it?
March 29, 2020
More fun than I first thought: Milligan is so prolific, but I've been digging into Vertigo work lingering unread. This deserves attention, but there is a change in artists from after first two chapters by Glyn Dillon, though it still works. It's as much metaphysical Epyptian revival fantasy as anything, though the Egyptian pantheon is well-portrayed. Heads up: adult, with some R-rated sex. That said, this was Ok.
Mildly recommended.
Mildly recommended.
January 18, 2020
3.5 უფრო ზუსტი იქნება ალბათ.
დასაწყისი ბევრად საინტერესო იყო და მერე ძალიან გაბანალურდა. ძველი ეგვიპტით აღფრთოვანებული ხალხისთვის მაინც იმედგაცრუება იქნება, მაგრამ უცბად წასაკითხად და "სამოგზაუროდ" "წავა რა".
დასაწყისი ბევრად საინტერესო იყო და მერე ძალიან გაბანალურდა. ძველი ეგვიპტით აღფრთოვანებული ხალხისთვის მაინც იმედგაცრუება იქნება, მაგრამ უცბად წასაკითხად და "სამოგზაუროდ" "წავა რა".
October 15, 2024
Vincent is a drifter who finds himself caught up with a cult worshipping Egyptian deities. On the receiving end of a brutal ritual involving sex, mutilation and even murder, Vincent doesn't just end up buried as a mummy but instead awakens in Ancient Egypt born again as Vin Centhotep. Maintaining memories of his life from the future, Vin begins to unravel how a ritual could imbibe him with everlasting immortality as he remembers each subsequent lifetime. Vin is driven by both revenge and a desire for enlightenment which unfolds over this seven-issue miniseries.
Egypt is equal parts ambitious as it is bizarre, and an overall good time. The story does drop off a bit in its second half as it follows a bit of a repetitive cycle, but fans of sci-fi storytelling infused into historical fiction will find this entertaining enough all the way through. By no means is there any semblance of historical accuracy though, so as long as anachronisms don't impede your ability to get through this you'll like this well enough. Milligan's writing is goofy at times, but subversive when it needs to be. Glyn Dillon's artwork does the job well enough even if it feels very familiar to most other Vertigo books of the '90s.
Egypt is equal parts ambitious as it is bizarre, and an overall good time. The story does drop off a bit in its second half as it follows a bit of a repetitive cycle, but fans of sci-fi storytelling infused into historical fiction will find this entertaining enough all the way through. By no means is there any semblance of historical accuracy though, so as long as anachronisms don't impede your ability to get through this you'll like this well enough. Milligan's writing is goofy at times, but subversive when it needs to be. Glyn Dillon's artwork does the job well enough even if it feels very familiar to most other Vertigo books of the '90s.
December 30, 2023
This isn't a series I would naturally have picked up, based on the opening few pages of the first issue, but the credits for Roberto Corona from the third issue onwards (and the lettering by Ellie de'Ville) piqued my interest enough to give it a go. I ended up surprisingly invested in the story and even the initially unlikable main character and I found the last three issue in particular very satisfying to read!
The overall style of the book still isn't quite to my preference, and some of the adult themes in it definitely weren't for me (particularly the —though that was at least in there for a reason—and ). Even so, the dry humour in the collection did a lot to work to win me over, and I'll probably end up re-reading it at some point to remind myself of what happened near the start and .
The overall style of the book still isn't quite to my preference, and some of the adult themes in it definitely weren't for me (particularly the —though that was at least in there for a reason—and ). Even so, the dry humour in the collection did a lot to work to win me over, and I'll probably end up re-reading it at some point to remind myself of what happened near the start and .
December 26, 2024
2/10
A promising first issue descends into gross, incoherent debauchery. The protagonist frequently longs to have sex with his now-deceased sister, reminiscing of the days when he gave his toddler sister piggyback rides and her skirt revealed her bottom.... I just can't. There's a frame with an upskirt of this little sister's underwear while she's being given a piggyback ride. There's so much sexual fantasy in this and very little tangible story. What story there is, it's largely uninteresting. The writing is poor and wastes a cool setting and time period as ancient Egypt.
A promising first issue descends into gross, incoherent debauchery. The protagonist frequently longs to have sex with his now-deceased sister, reminiscing of the days when he gave his toddler sister piggyback rides and her skirt revealed her bottom.... I just can't. There's a frame with an upskirt of this little sister's underwear while she's being given a piggyback ride. There's so much sexual fantasy in this and very little tangible story. What story there is, it's largely uninteresting. The writing is poor and wastes a cool setting and time period as ancient Egypt.
July 25, 2019
3.5 stars
November 4, 2019
Why hasn't this been turned into an HBO mini-series yet?
July 26, 2016
I don't normally review comics on here unless they're anthologized but I started reading this series in 1993, finally tracked down the rest of the books last year and finished the story this morning.
I think I might need to re-read it a few times to make sure I didn't miss anything compelling in my haste to find out what happens next but overall, I'm satisfied that the story is over.
I think I might need to re-read it a few times to make sure I didn't miss anything compelling in my haste to find out what happens next but overall, I'm satisfied that the story is over.
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September 14, 2014Tengo varios numeritos sueltos en inglés, pero como no existe edición recopilada estadounidense(aunque parece que alguien la subió igual, no sé basándose en qué) marco la edición española, pero no sé si me los leeré hasta que no consiga los dos faltantes (#3 y 5, si no me equivoco).
October 17, 2014
Not bad at all. I've been slowly checking out the older vertigo books I missed, and this is one of the better ones. Really enjoyed the art, especially whoever did the first couple issues. Nice twist towards the end too.
January 18, 2013
Nice Story, Decent Art. Was a typical Peter Milligan work - Bizarre having a time-space-travel-gods theme.
July 15, 2013
I read the English edition. Good Art. Decent story. Got me interested in Peter Milligan work.
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