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39 Minutes
Robbing a bank is easy, it's the getaway that's hard! The bank is surrounded by police officers, alarms are blaring, customers and employees are screaming, and the streets are blocked off. So what's the solution? Kill everyone in town!
128 pages, Hardcover
First published July 31, 2013
20 people want to read
About the author
William Harms
83 books4 followersWilliam Harms has written for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Image Comics, Top Cow, Sony Computer Entertainment, and 2K. He was the lead writer on Mafia III, which was widely acclaimed for its narrative and was nominated for several writing awards, including a British Academy Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Games Award.
His graphic novel series Impaler was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award.
He resides in Northern California.
His graphic novel series Impaler was nominated for an International Horror Guild Award.
He resides in Northern California.
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November 14, 2019
Started off very strong. The colorist changed after the first issue and that's where things began to go downhill. Brian Buccellato colored the first issue making the art look vibrant and crisp. Then Linda Sejic came in and did the rest of the book using some digital painting technique. At that point the art becomes all muddy and artificial looking. All the characters looked the same and I can no longer tell them apart. Everyone's in military garb so there's no way to differentiate between the characters. Plus their motivations make no sense. They go to prison for something they didn't do and when they get out, they start murdering entire police forces. It makes no sense!
August 6, 2021
Heist/Caper story that is more interested in the backstory of the characters than in the promised heists and capers, so misleading expectations result in a disappointing read.
January 2, 2019
Hopefully your journey lasted less than the title would suggest because each and every sorry minute spent on this crap is wasted within. Take an overly large helping of Pulp Fiction temporal slicing and dicing, mix it in with some substandard ideas concerning crime and garnish with a fetid dose of modern era happenstance, and what appear before your eyes will be as distasteful above as so below when it enters your innards.
With no meaningful character development, no cool plot twists not turns, or the slightest scintilla of cohesion 39 Minutes will remain as unmemorable as time will be able to tell.
Wanting to be many things but a case of not too many cooks but way too many ideas spoiling the pot is the sad sorry result.
With no meaningful character development, no cool plot twists not turns, or the slightest scintilla of cohesion 39 Minutes will remain as unmemorable as time will be able to tell.
Wanting to be many things but a case of not too many cooks but way too many ideas spoiling the pot is the sad sorry result.
April 23, 2020
What to do if you fight a war and get screwed by your own government.... rob banks?
An interesting look at betrayal on betrayal.
An interesting look at betrayal on betrayal.
January 26, 2017
First off, the blurb is a lie in several ways. Image usually knows better than that.
This graphic novel IS a very violent crime caper story. It involves ex-veterans who were framed for a crime and locked up for life to prevent the truth from coming out. Say, doesn't that sound like the A-Team?
In this case, though, most of the team breaks out and begins a violent crime spree based on military tactics. Their targets are banks in small, Midwestern towns, but their violence spreads well beyond that. So, instead of the "root for the bank robbers" motif, instead it becomes a "hunt down these violent crazies and kill them" story.
The story is weakened by clichés, especially the ones about the contract security agency, and the motivating plot about the frame-up never quite worked for me, but the heart of the story is the group of men who are clearly headed for a bad end, and the question is how many people they'll take with them. The weakness is how quickly most of the men adapt to an especially brutal methodology. One member of the group is clearly crazy, but it's hard to empathize with the others, based on their actions, even after what was initially done to them.
So, the reader is distanced from all but two characters, their former commander and a random FBI agent. The result is a story that is no better than good.
This graphic novel IS a very violent crime caper story. It involves ex-veterans who were framed for a crime and locked up for life to prevent the truth from coming out. Say, doesn't that sound like the A-Team?
In this case, though, most of the team breaks out and begins a violent crime spree based on military tactics. Their targets are banks in small, Midwestern towns, but their violence spreads well beyond that. So, instead of the "root for the bank robbers" motif, instead it becomes a "hunt down these violent crazies and kill them" story.
The story is weakened by clichés, especially the ones about the contract security agency, and the motivating plot about the frame-up never quite worked for me, but the heart of the story is the group of men who are clearly headed for a bad end, and the question is how many people they'll take with them. The weakness is how quickly most of the men adapt to an especially brutal methodology. One member of the group is clearly crazy, but it's hard to empathize with the others, based on their actions, even after what was initially done to them.
So, the reader is distanced from all but two characters, their former commander and a random FBI agent. The result is a story that is no better than good.
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