Daemonifuge

Daemonifuge #1

by Kevin Walker, Jim Campbell

Suffering from amnesia, Adepta Sororitas Ephrael Stern retraces her steps to Parnis, accompanied by the zealous Inquisitor Hand, searching to discover both her past and Chaos' plans for the planet, once home to an order of Sororitas.

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels, 40k, Fiction, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics

80 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

Kevin Walker is a British comics artist and illustrator, based in Leeds, who worked mainly on 2000 AD and Warhammer comics and the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. He is now working for Marvel Comics.
(source: Wikipedia)

Sometimes credited as Kev Walker

Reviews

[Juho Pohjalainen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Adepta Sororitas has traditionally gotten one of the shorter sticks in WH40k lore, forced to live on the scraps of the great big Space Marine party platter. This comic throws them a bone, letting one of their own star a whole story. Now if only that comic were any good: its story was fairly middling, nothing special if not particularly terrible either, but the art really was some of the worst. Greyscale early CGI mixed with hand-drawn - nothing worth seeing here. Hideous.

Shame.

[RatGrrrl · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great comic is great. More review when I have more brain, but having a truly heinous flare up and pretty much passed out the moment I finished this earlier and only just remembered.

[Kingsley Houston · Rating 2 out of 5]

Since of the art is a pretty cool, but the story is barely comprehensible and just stops, without any real resolution.

[Simon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Astonishingly good black and white art. I love to see B&W art around these days. And this is just, exquisite, really captures the feel of the Imperium.

Also a pretty good series of stories. I mean yes there's holes and problems and jumps. And the third volume doesn't sit well with the first two stories. But still, I hope one day we see more of this.

[Fenrif · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent sistes of battle story let down by the art, which while suitably gothic and grimdark, does become incomprehensible at points. Mostly because it felt like there were a few in-between panels missing in the action scenes. You can stil kind of infer what is going on by context, but there were some pages that I had to re-read a few times to work out just exactly what was happening.

[Jessie B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cool art and fairly engaging stories

[Alienated Cú Chulainn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just exactly what I needed. Perfect dose old-school 40k grimdark, with gorgeously gothic art as well.

[Donavon · Rating 3 out of 5]

beautiful art, confusing story. will read book 2 to see if becomes clearer

[Greatredwarrior · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe I'm just not a graphic novel guy, or maybe my eReader isn't the way to really consume this material, but this was almost incomprehensible. I couldn't understand most of the action that was supposed to be happening. The motivations and purposes of the characters was likewise obtuse and didn't make any sense. Just wouldn't recommend this series to anyone.

[Sarah Yasin]

Not quite sure what I just read. Is the emperor a symbol of institutionalism? Who is the real antagonist here?

The story opens with a hilarious parody of the Sound of Music's showtune, "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?" and features a sundry variety of fonts to rival the Portland Press Herald.

[Zare · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this one as part of Daemonifuge (print on demand) from Black Library.
Great art and very interesting story.

Highly recommended for any fan of SF.

[nooker · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best 40k comics. Inquisitor Hand and Sister Stern are awesome characters and the circular aspect of the plot is really well done.