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The Fly: Outbreak by Brandon Seifert
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First published October 29, 2015
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February 1, 2016
'The Fly: Outbreak' by Brandon Seifert with art by Menton3 looks really cool, but left me feeling a bit detached from the characters.
I'm supposing the story starts after the second Fly movie from the 1980s. Martin Brindle has been returned to human form and he wants to find a cure for Bartok, who was turned into a fly at the end of The Fly II. Martin has got a pretty detached marriage, and doesn't seem to even connect much to the people in the lab around him. That somewhat changes when there is an outbreak (if it's part of the title, is it a spoiler). He ends up in quarantine and things go from bad to worse. Can he find the cure before things get out of hand?
The artwork is dark and pretty cool, but I just didn't care much for the characters. Especially the main character. There are some horror moments, but they just felt a bit detached. So, when it was all said and done, I found that I'd have a hard time recommending it unless someone was a die hard fan of the movies from the 1980s.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
I'm supposing the story starts after the second Fly movie from the 1980s. Martin Brindle has been returned to human form and he wants to find a cure for Bartok, who was turned into a fly at the end of The Fly II. Martin has got a pretty detached marriage, and doesn't seem to even connect much to the people in the lab around him. That somewhat changes when there is an outbreak (if it's part of the title, is it a spoiler). He ends up in quarantine and things go from bad to worse. Can he find the cure before things get out of hand?
The artwork is dark and pretty cool, but I just didn't care much for the characters. Especially the main character. There are some horror moments, but they just felt a bit detached. So, when it was all said and done, I found that I'd have a hard time recommending it unless someone was a die hard fan of the movies from the 1980s.
I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
December 27, 2015
Continuation in comic-book medium of Cronenberg's Fly & Fly II movies (hello twitch-inducing childhood o_O memories)... and just as icky and gruesome. Meh. Great art though (if you can appreciate it from a pure artistic standpoint and not from the totally-gross-content standpoint). Like the movies I was compelled to read to the end despite being totally ugh'ed out by the icky gooey MartinFly creature. Sombre, grim and unassumingly 'quiet'. Great stuff if you're of the inclination to this kind of stuff. And if you want to know what happens to Martin.
September 12, 2015
This book was alright, but I wouldn't call it great. If failed to really pull me in and I found the main character and the majority of the supporting characters unlikable.
Normally the art can often save a bad book for me, but unfortunately this one failed impress.
The concept of the story seemed promising, but somewhere along the process of creation things went horribly wrong.
Rating 2 out of 5
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Normally the art can often save a bad book for me, but unfortunately this one failed impress.
The concept of the story seemed promising, but somewhere along the process of creation things went horribly wrong.
Rating 2 out of 5
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September 18, 2017
Just one of the worst comics I've ever read. Half the time you have no idea what is happening panel to panel. The rest of the time you're getting the most obvious and on-the-nose dialogue imaginable.
A Fly sequel could be great. I can't believe anyone published this.
A Fly sequel could be great. I can't believe anyone published this.
June 24, 2017
A much better story than The Fly II (which this is a sequel to), but the artwork, while interesting, makes it somewhat hard to follow at times.
February 14, 2026
De lo peor en cómics que he leído.
Lejano a la escénica original de la película clásica, personajes sin fondo y apenas soportable.
Lejano a la escénica original de la película clásica, personajes sin fondo y apenas soportable.
October 12, 2015
The Fly was a groundbreaking body horror film by David Cronenberg, starring Jeff Goldblum. It was a remake of a 1950s creature feature. The Fly: Outbreak takes place following the events of The Fly II. If you remember, (not that you would be blamed for not remembering, as it was 1989) the story ended with Martin Brundle being returned from a fly-monster to a human and Anton Bartok, the unscrupulous owner of Bartok Industries becoming said monster. This graphic novel is a collection of the original five part comic series from IDW.
The Fly: Outbreak begins with Martin trying to find a cure for Bartok’s condition using the iconic teleportation pods, only things take a turn when Bartok escapes. Before being killed by security, Bartok has a run in with a number of employees who are then forced into quarantine for fear of infection from the contact. We follow the developments in quarantine, as they lead to the titular outbreak. The scenes in quarantine are superb. There’s a real emotion to the story with Martin struggling with the burden of responsibility for the fly illness.
The artwork is striking, beautifully drawn, and moody with superb detail. Dark and light are used together to great aplomb in the comic panels. Martin Brundle is drawn as the actor Eric Stoltz from The Fly II. It’s a nice touch, again bringing continuity from the film. In another celebrity cameo, that I’m not sure is officially acknowledged, Martin’s assistant Noelani is the spitting image of Lucy Liu. Also, is that Zachary Quinto in the final panels?
This is one of the best graphic novels I’ve read in a long time. It’s a truly touching and horrific story at the same time. It feels like a natural extension to The Fly universe and not forced at all. I highly recommend this graphic novel.
The Fly: Outbreak begins with Martin trying to find a cure for Bartok’s condition using the iconic teleportation pods, only things take a turn when Bartok escapes. Before being killed by security, Bartok has a run in with a number of employees who are then forced into quarantine for fear of infection from the contact. We follow the developments in quarantine, as they lead to the titular outbreak. The scenes in quarantine are superb. There’s a real emotion to the story with Martin struggling with the burden of responsibility for the fly illness.
The artwork is striking, beautifully drawn, and moody with superb detail. Dark and light are used together to great aplomb in the comic panels. Martin Brundle is drawn as the actor Eric Stoltz from The Fly II. It’s a nice touch, again bringing continuity from the film. In another celebrity cameo, that I’m not sure is officially acknowledged, Martin’s assistant Noelani is the spitting image of Lucy Liu. Also, is that Zachary Quinto in the final panels?
This is one of the best graphic novels I’ve read in a long time. It’s a truly touching and horrific story at the same time. It feels like a natural extension to The Fly universe and not forced at all. I highly recommend this graphic novel.
September 17, 2015
"The Fly" is one of the creepiest movies I had the chance of watching at a wayyyy too young age, so I was looking forward to Brandon Seifert's continuation of that mythos. Unfortunately, this followup to "The Fly II" falls short in many ways.
My biggest problem was that I couldn't connect with any of the characters. There is barely any time spent connecting with the characters. The writer's efforts are all spent on this outrageous story about Martin's transgenetic disease inadvertently spreading to a whole compound of people as he tried to cure one person of their fly monster metamorphosis.
The story also isn't helped by the art. I really liked the way the monsters were designed and drawn, but all the people had this static almost photographic look, especially when there were close ups of face. There was no feeling of emotion conveyed with them. They were like realistic mannequins that often stood in unrealistic poses. It was very off putting and distracting. Add that to a mediocre story and this one should only be picked up by the most hardcore fans of David Cronenberg's classic film.
My biggest problem was that I couldn't connect with any of the characters. There is barely any time spent connecting with the characters. The writer's efforts are all spent on this outrageous story about Martin's transgenetic disease inadvertently spreading to a whole compound of people as he tried to cure one person of their fly monster metamorphosis.
The story also isn't helped by the art. I really liked the way the monsters were designed and drawn, but all the people had this static almost photographic look, especially when there were close ups of face. There was no feeling of emotion conveyed with them. They were like realistic mannequins that often stood in unrealistic poses. It was very off putting and distracting. Add that to a mediocre story and this one should only be picked up by the most hardcore fans of David Cronenberg's classic film.
September 20, 2015
This is a quite a successful continuation of the Fly film mythos, with a Brundle-son trying to redeem the family name. Before now we've totally dropped the idea that you can become a fly/human hybrid through ill-use of teleportation devices, and now it's a genetic disease with too many ways to possibly catch it – sex, on the air or through machines. The only way to get rid of it is to swap it with someone else in the machines, which isn't particularly effective at ending it – but there a lot of other ways for it to promulgate and make itself known… The story's OK, if it jumps from scene to scene far too quickly for its own good – which isn't helped by the artwork going totally for mood as opposed to clarity of who's who and what's where. Add on gas masks, too many disembodied speech balloons and more and you have no idea what's going on at times, which only gets worse by the end. It just about hangs together enough for me to not regret reading it, and I did enjoy it on the whole – it's not going to make me urge the series further on, however.
January 10, 2020
Cool art though.
February 4, 2018
Not chilled or thrilled and I couldn’t seem to work up any connection to the characters.
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