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The Kindred
Traduce la miniserie The Kindred, publicada originalmente en inglés por Image Comics.
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
168 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1995
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Jim Lee
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Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, creator and publisher. After graduating from Princeton, he decided to attempt illustrating comic books, and met with success. Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the late 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.
He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990.
Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, creator and publisher. After graduating from Princeton, he decided to attempt illustrating comic books, and met with success. Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the late 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.
He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990.
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October 8, 2022
If you are not familiar with the earliest properties created by Image Comics, then you'll probably be like me when reading The Kindred- LOST!
The loose cannon Grifter and no-nonsense Marc Slayton must join forces in order to save a pair of high-ranking government officials who have been kidnapped. Both have their own reasons. One is begrudgingly doing this mission in return for information. The other has motives of revenge, redemption and romance.
Together Grifter and Slayton and a team of special operatives head down to an undisclosed South America island to a defunct research station. It's here that the sins of the US government have reared their ugly head. It seems that the whole facility is full of human-animal hybrids. It's like a hi-tech Island of Dr. Moreau and the head of this group of freaks, known as the Kindred, is someone thought long dead from Grifter and Slayton's days with Team 7.
I think that's a fairly decent recollection of the 4-issue miniseries from 1994. I don't really understand a lot of the backstory or insider jokes and Easter eggs that float around in this story. But I'm not really sure I want to either.
For the life of my, I don't remember where or how I got my hands on this book. It just ended up in my collection somehow. My collection has been known as the spot where other's old collections come to find new life. So, I probably got this as part of a donation from someone looking to unload their collection. Being a book that contained a whole story in just one volume, I probably decided to hold on to this until I felt like reading it. And recently, that day arrived.
With a slew of talent behind this miniseries, I'm really disappointed. Jim Lee (X-Men), Brandon Choi (Deathblow) and Sean Ruffner (Backlash) wrote the script. Pencils were by Brett Booth (Teen Titans) and Chris Eilopoulos (Cosmic Commandos) was the letterer. And yet this whole thing stunk!
I'm going to try really hard to be fair to this book as it's my first encounter with the vintage Image universe and almost all of these characters. But, my gracefulness can only go so far...
I think 3 writers was 2 too many. The dialogue was full of action movie cliches (and bad action movies at that!) and a lot of the plot didn't make sense. I still don't understand how nobody knew who kidnapped those government officials but managed to go to the correct island. Aren't there like there's hundreds or even thousands of islands off the Atlantic coast of South America?
The artwork was hideous. Brett Booth must have just graduated from the Rob Liefeld school of art before tackling this book. Body proportions are exaggerated. Everybody has the same face with a widow's peak and really scrunched up faces and those beady eyes. I hated it!
At least the lettering was decent.
I don't think it needs saying but The Kindred will not stay a part of my comics collection. It's heading to a used book story for some trade credit. Hopefully, I can get something decent out of this stinker.
The loose cannon Grifter and no-nonsense Marc Slayton must join forces in order to save a pair of high-ranking government officials who have been kidnapped. Both have their own reasons. One is begrudgingly doing this mission in return for information. The other has motives of revenge, redemption and romance.
Together Grifter and Slayton and a team of special operatives head down to an undisclosed South America island to a defunct research station. It's here that the sins of the US government have reared their ugly head. It seems that the whole facility is full of human-animal hybrids. It's like a hi-tech Island of Dr. Moreau and the head of this group of freaks, known as the Kindred, is someone thought long dead from Grifter and Slayton's days with Team 7.
I think that's a fairly decent recollection of the 4-issue miniseries from 1994. I don't really understand a lot of the backstory or insider jokes and Easter eggs that float around in this story. But I'm not really sure I want to either.
For the life of my, I don't remember where or how I got my hands on this book. It just ended up in my collection somehow. My collection has been known as the spot where other's old collections come to find new life. So, I probably got this as part of a donation from someone looking to unload their collection. Being a book that contained a whole story in just one volume, I probably decided to hold on to this until I felt like reading it. And recently, that day arrived.
With a slew of talent behind this miniseries, I'm really disappointed. Jim Lee (X-Men), Brandon Choi (Deathblow) and Sean Ruffner (Backlash) wrote the script. Pencils were by Brett Booth (Teen Titans) and Chris Eilopoulos (Cosmic Commandos) was the letterer. And yet this whole thing stunk!
I'm going to try really hard to be fair to this book as it's my first encounter with the vintage Image universe and almost all of these characters. But, my gracefulness can only go so far...
I think 3 writers was 2 too many. The dialogue was full of action movie cliches (and bad action movies at that!) and a lot of the plot didn't make sense. I still don't understand how nobody knew who kidnapped those government officials but managed to go to the correct island. Aren't there like there's hundreds or even thousands of islands off the Atlantic coast of South America?
The artwork was hideous. Brett Booth must have just graduated from the Rob Liefeld school of art before tackling this book. Body proportions are exaggerated. Everybody has the same face with a widow's peak and really scrunched up faces and those beady eyes. I hated it!
At least the lettering was decent.
I don't think it needs saying but The Kindred will not stay a part of my comics collection. It's heading to a used book story for some trade credit. Hopefully, I can get something decent out of this stinker.
June 28, 2020
Ah, the 90s and their one-liners. That's how you make a proper action movie. It works in comic format too. This particular limited series is heavy on the military jargon, exaggerated poses and over-the-top action - in two words it's one fun trip!
Backlash is looking for the Daemonite that possessed a loved one and left her in a coma. He tries to get information from a Team 7 veteran, but is captured by the Black Razors. IO offers him a mission on a former IO research facility to track down a mysterious character working for the Kindred that kidnapped Lynch and his assistant Alicia Turner. Grifter needs info from Backlash and then intends to kill him, so he secretly tags along.
Backlash is looking for the Daemonite that possessed a loved one and left her in a coma. He tries to get information from a Team 7 veteran, but is captured by the Black Razors. IO offers him a mission on a former IO research facility to track down a mysterious character working for the Kindred that kidnapped Lynch and his assistant Alicia Turner. Grifter needs info from Backlash and then intends to kill him, so he secretly tags along.
August 1, 2018
Este tomo recopila una serie limitada directamente vinculada con Team 7 y Stormwatch, y en ella se citan quizá los dos personajes más carismáticos de estos grupos (con permiso de Deathblow), como son Grifter y Blackslash.
A nivel de historia, la idea a lo Isla del dr. Moureau no está mal, pero rechina con fallos de bulto. En un determinado momento Grifter nos recuerda que no quiere que Lynch descubra su verdadera identidad. Y así es, aunque en un punto de la historia, el guionista falla y Lynch llama a Grifter por su apellido. Y ojo, NO es un spoiler. Es sencillamente un fallo de guión.
La justificación relacionada con el origen de la isla, también tiene un fallo tremendo, pero ahí sí que me freno por no desvelar aspectos de la trama.
El dibujo comienza a nivel aceptable, pero va bajando el nivel de forma vertiginosa, como pasa con tantas series de esos comienzos de Wildstorm donde todo lo que no fuera Jim Lee o Scott Williams eran sucedáneos de segunda.
A pesar de toda la parte crítica, es una buena historia de lucimiento de Grifter y Blackslash, y el buen rato de acción pura y dura no os lo va a quitar nadie.
A nivel de historia, la idea a lo Isla del dr. Moureau no está mal, pero rechina con fallos de bulto. En un determinado momento Grifter nos recuerda que no quiere que Lynch descubra su verdadera identidad. Y así es, aunque en un punto de la historia, el guionista falla y Lynch llama a Grifter por su apellido. Y ojo, NO es un spoiler. Es sencillamente un fallo de guión.
La justificación relacionada con el origen de la isla, también tiene un fallo tremendo, pero ahí sí que me freno por no desvelar aspectos de la trama.
El dibujo comienza a nivel aceptable, pero va bajando el nivel de forma vertiginosa, como pasa con tantas series de esos comienzos de Wildstorm donde todo lo que no fuera Jim Lee o Scott Williams eran sucedáneos de segunda.
A pesar de toda la parte crítica, es una buena historia de lucimiento de Grifter y Blackslash, y el buen rato de acción pura y dura no os lo va a quitar nadie.
June 22, 2026
Tomo único de The Kindred y que se editó en inglés y castellano. Tuvo una segunda serie pero que no se recopiló en inglés ni castellano.
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