Metal Gear Solid: Sons Of Liberty: Volume One

Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty #1

by Alex Garner, Ashley Wood

Four years after former FoxHound hero Solid Snake saved the day on Shadow Moses Island, a new terrorist organization known as Dead Cell has hijacked the environmental cleanup facility known as the Big Shell and taken the President of the United States hostage. In response to their threat, FoxHound agent Raiden must join forces with a mysterious Navy Seal known as Pliskin to rescue the President and neutralize Dead Cell, whose leader is said to be none other than Solid Snake himself

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Science Fiction

148 pages, Paperback

First published September 6, 2006

About the author

After graduating from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in computer science, Alex Garner went on to work on various popular comic book series (Gen 13, Danger Girl) for Jim Lee’s Wildstorm Productions. In 1999 he left to start IDW Publishing with three partners and became Creative Director and Lead Artist before selling the company. Since then, Alex has worked as a successful freelance Illustrator and concept artist.
Clients includes DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Blizzard Entertainment, Warner Home Video, Hasbro, Deep Silver, Upper Deck, IDW Publishing, Cryptozoic Entertainment.

Reviews

[Herman Litt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thought it was just "Solid". Ashley Wood's expressionism was a delight to look at too.

[Brandon Kazimir · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reaaaally not a fan of the art here. At times, it's hard to tell who or what you're even looking at. The one upside to a graphic novel like this is that I'm able to speed through it, as there's not much detail in the art to catch my eyes as I look over it. I would've loved to see something in the style of one of the variant covers by Alex Garner shown at the end of the book, but this just looks way to sketch/storyboard-esque for my tastes. At least it's different, I guess.

[Dony Grayman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Edición argentina, tomo 1 de 2 de la segunda serie de historietas dedicada a Metal Gear Solid. Historieta que traduce con mucha fluidez el videojuego del mismo nombre, con guiones de Alex Garner y cuadros de Ashley Wood. El tomo incluye como bonus una historia corta a cargo del mismo dibujante y con guiones de Matt Fraction.

[Fugo Feedback · Rating 4 out of 5]

Para mi sorpresa, este comic también se entendió a la perfección pese a que nunca jugué el videogame en el que se inspira. Así que pese a mis quejar sobre algunas fallas narrativas de Ashley Wood, como me enganchó la historia y me encantó el dibujo, esta vez tengo poco de qué quejarme.
Poroto a favor a la edición por incluir la anecdótica historia cortísima a cargo de Matt Fraction.

[Tropo Alegro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Secuela de la serie de dos tomos previamente publicada por la misma editorial que transcurre unos dos años después y fue publicada unos dos años después. En inglés, también fue adaptado como motion-comic.

[Ribrarian Not · Rating 5 out of 5]

Libro de historietas con ISBN propio. Primera edición para Argentina. Incluye capítulo corto a modo de prólog.