Imperial Gothic: The Collected Warhammer 40000 comics of Dan Abnett

by Dan Abnett

A graphic novel collecting together the finest Warhammer 40,000 strips written by Dan Abnett. Includes the award winning Lone Wolves, Inquisitor Ascendant and strips based on the highly successful Gaunt's Ghosts series.

Genres: Comics, 40k

220 pages, Paperback

First published March 28, 2006

Reviews

[Drew Canole · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe I just don't understand the Warhammer mythos, but none of these stories made any sense to me.

[Matthew J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some solid Warhammer 40K stuff. Lots of the usual twists and turns with Chaos and the Inquisition. The art is sometimes too chaotic. Some of it is pretty good, but it's not always easy to read.
Still, pretty good.

[Chip Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

By combining the bold and intense writing style of Dan Abnett with the detailed drawings of the Warhammer artists, a remarkable product is created. In this book, two separate stories are presented, each with very Abnettesque characters and settings. The first is about an Imperial Guardsman unit that calls to mind Gaunt's Ghosts, with desperate fighting and overwhelming odds on a cold and desolate planet. The second set tells of a rising Inquisitor and his investigation and extermination of Chaotic forces and has many obvious similarities to the Eisenhorn novels. Personally I liked both sets of stories, but the Space Wolves set has the better and more detailed art work, while the Inquisitor Ascendent set has the more in depth and captivating story line. Both sets of short comics (that came out in Warhammer monthly magazine and are progressive series) are fun and engrossing. The progressivness is obvious mostly in the gradual increase in detail of the drawings from the older to the more recent of the episodes.

The only complaint I can make about this edition is that not enough space was left for margins between the pages, forcing a choice between creasing and ruining the book binding or not quite being able to read some of the writing or see all of some pictures. Overall this didn't really create too much of a problem, but it is somewhat annoying.

[Paulo "paper books only" · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second graphic novel is named Imperial Gothic and both stories within were made by Dan Abnett. In my opinion one of the best stories if not the best is printed there. Lone Wolves it's is name. The story involves a squad of imperial guard troops as they try to survive the hostil cold temperatures of the planet, as being surrounded by tyranids and without mantiments. In their darkest moments the space wolves appear and save them. In this book we learn more of the space wolves as we would learn in a novel or fluff out there. I must say I was thrilled to read the story and I've read it several times. The other story inside is about an inquisitor apprenditce as he struggles between heretic and the imperium. His master is also his mentor and the choices he chooses also effects him. And as the end of the book says nobody is above the corruption of chaos. It can apply to the Warhammer 40k universe as it applies to own world. I will give 8.5/10 becaus of Lone Wolves that in my opinion deserves 10/10.

[Sarah Cook]

OK so that was a thing I read.

The plot is pretty thin, and the first story is extremely dull, but the 2nd story is a bit more interesting with some cool chaos bits, different planets and nice art straight from classic 2000AD territory.

It is extremely mansy and I think I now have testosterone toxic shock.

There's literally a panel where some guy is shooting a giant gun from his crotch and his facial expressions are... Yeah. Well.

There's two women in the whole thing, they are in maybe 10 panels. They look identical and mostly cry. I guess I too would cry if I had to be a woman in this shit show.

Gets one star for the AW of part of one of the stories.