Dexter Morgan, expert en médecine légale le jour et tueur de criminels la nuit, enquête sur un ancien camarade de classe, un homme en apparence irréprochable. Mais Dexter va devoir être prudent car son "ami" sait peut-être tout de sa double vie...
Jeff Lindsay lives in Florida with his wife, author Hilary Hemingway, daughter of Leicester Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's brother.
Lindsay is best known for writing the Dexter series of novels. Several of his earlier published works include his wife as a co-author.
Jeff graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1975, and Celebration Mime Theatre's Clown School the same year. He received a double MFA, in Directing and Playwriting, from Carnegie-Mellon University, and has written 25 produced plays. He has also worked as a musician, singer, comedian, actor, TV host, improv actor, and dishwasher.
Mehhhhh. This was alright. After starting this show on Netflix, I had high expectations for this. It just really doesn't compare to the show in how much I like it. This could serve as a single episode, I guess. But it felt really over-the-top. Maybe it gets more over-the-top after season 1, but I don't know that yet. I could have done without this comic.
This was terrible. Those characters you came to love in the tv show or even the books have been slaughtered by this particular artist. Dexter came out looking like david Duchovny rather than the devil eyed genius that is Michael c hall. The other characters are so off base you wonder if it's a new character being introduced.
The story is somewhat laking in that the beginning, the reunion, felt like a rehash of previous events. We also get little to no screentime with dexter's more playful attributes. Putting all this aside, the story lacks believability.
Meh, it wasn't awful but I just don't feel like Dexter works well as a comic I guess. Or maybe they just need a different artist. The art here isn't necessarily bad but it's just not very detailed and I don't think it sets the mood very well. Also the plot seems incredibly familiar, although I can't remember if that's because they used a really similar one somewhere in the show/books before or if it's just really generic. It's not a horrible read, but it definitely could have been a lot more involved both in terms of art and story.
I seem to be on a 'Dexter' binge as of late. After re-watching the Showtime Series (sans season 8) and the first novel, it was time to delve into the extended lore presented in the limited comic series written by the Author. It was a mixed bag.
For one thing, the artwork is novel in places, especially when it comes to portraying everyone's favorite inner dark passenger. But because this is Marvel, the gratuitous blood, gore and violence which is characteristic of the world is sorely missing. Everything comes across as bland and uninteresting, like the Marvel movies.
Dexter as a character is someone who wears a human skin trying to blend in the world, while at the same time acting like a kid in a candy store, when it comes to blood, murder and everything macabre. But here we have no blood, no grotesque tableau, no inner darkness which seems to plague the characters of the series. In fact, if his name was not on the title, I wouldn't even have guessed that what I'm reading was a Dexter comic. If the publishers are not willing to embrace the R rated elements which made the original series so engaging, they're just churning out a hollow shell of a work.
The plot is generic and unengaging, and might as well be an episode of NCIS or CSI: Miami. The only credit I can see is that at least they try to do something other than the canon plot. Another complaint which carries over from the books is Deborah.
Having seen the on screen persona of the character, here she comes across as at best a dense, less helpful version of Robin, who always plays second fiddle to Dexter and has no agency of her own.
The story largely leaves no impact on the reader and is largely banal. Read at your own volition.
It's a bit difficult to tell who everyone is, if you are expecting to see the characters' likenesses from the TV show. Other than that, it's a pretty regular Dexter story, with the twists fans of the show are used to. Sadly, little else is spectacular here. For people unfamiliar with the TV show it's a banal detective story with monologue from the main character.
Dexter gets invited to his high school's 10-year reunion. He meets Gonzales the bully from his youth, his first target and the one that got away. Nowadays he is the founder of the New Hope Foundation. Dexter thinks little of it until a homeless man is found dead. The man was helped by Gonzales' foundation. So Gonzales becomes Dexter's first suspect and maybe even next victim.
Be careful what to expect. The truth might hit you like a needle to the neck.
With the way the TV series declined in quality after the heights of season 4 (alltough religion and darker love interests were worth exploring) many people must've wondered how the story arch 'd have fared if Jeff Lindsay had set it in stone, much like Vince Gillighan did for Breaking Bad .
This comic offers a glimpse: based on a script by the original author and illustrated by an artist who didn't watch the series for inspiration. It shows that at least Dexter himself, Debra and Rita have a 'residual self' (cfr. the Matrix) derived from how the Lindsay novels describe them, for they show an uncanny resemblance to their TV actor counterparts.
The blood drawings have a purposefully frozen feel to them and close-ups of the antagonists convey a sense of menace. The atmosphere of Miami sithers through the colour palet. In other respects, the artwork feels wooden.
The story in itself is too big for its boots, taking up enough room to fill the length of a season but told at a pace equivalent to a single episode. It shares askew similarities with "Those Kinds of Things" (#6.1), showing just how memorable a high school reunion could be as a starting point. A more leisurely hunting game, black and white flashbacks to the Tonton Macoute period or the growth of New Hope as well as more interaction with Dexters family life would've been ...not filler, but fleshing out of a bare scenario.
I'm a DC fan. And by this I mean that in the DC vs Marvel dichotomy, I choose DC. To the point that I have an irrational hate for anything Marvel and my entire comic book collection is Marvel free.
Was Marvel free.
Because I ordered the Dexter comic, and when I picked it up from the bookshop, it was published by Marvel. It took me a little while to accept it, but I did, flicked through the pages, and finished reading a Marvel comic for the first time in about 15 years.
And I'm so happy I did!!!
Not because it was great, but because it was "meh". It felt like a parallel dimension episode of Dexter, where the character's faces look nothing like the actors. I'm pretty sure this didn't come before the TV show, as I remember seen issue 1 on the self of the comic book shop. So why illustrate the characters in a completely different way?
Other that that, it was ok. I read this on a train journey, so it was either this or sudoku on my phone. I'd say they are on the same level of excitement and entertainment quality.
Can you imagine being a investigator, specialist in murde,the comic book called “Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (Fiction) is all about this topic. It's a comic from marvel one of the greatest fiction books of the world and one of the favorites. The book is about a murder investigator whose names is Dexter and has a dark side, a voice called the dead passenger who is a evil human being. Dexter is a impatient, evil person, good person, has a family and a girlfriend(wife), he sometimes takes responsibility. Deborah is dexter's sister who is cold and very serious all the time and she works with dexter to solve crimes.
The murder was in miami beach next to a help center owned by dexters old enemy morgan, than deb which is dexter's sister and partner. I recommend this book because dexter is like deadpool and l because he has a voice on his head that makes him hard to kill. It can be a fun book because it has more pictures that words that makes you see how it looks like instead of just being described by reading. Also they investigate there way differently, in an aggressive way and than dexter uses force and his voice to get the evidence and try to solve a case. He sneaky way of doing things work on most cases but accidently he gets captured than solves the case and they get arrested. I think it's not a strategic way of doing work because it increases the risk of him getting killed captured or someone else.
Who sometimes helps dexter on investigating and responding to conflicts on his way, other times it helps him be a aggressive man with a evil mind and thinking. But in some cases he gets catched, captured or caught doing the dirty work and almost killed like in this comic book which he almost got caught on fire while driving. When solving a case about a murder that's the reason they were chased and almost burn to death with his sister. But that didn't stop them from keep on going and trying more to solve the crime, they after whent back to find the mystery guy but he was gone or maybe dead. Than later dexter found out and he was sent to the island to work as a slave, later on his sister was captured but had a tracking device which made it easier to track their location but they ran away except his henchmen.
Según informan en el tomo, esta historia se sitúa entre la primera y la segunda temporada de la serie. Sin embargo, no hace falta saber nada de la serie ni de las novelas para entender el argumento, puesto que la historia es autoconclusiva. Todo lo relevante se explica antes. Desde el punto de vista de alguien que lo único que conocía era quién era Dexter, y esto sólo de manera muy general, el único dato importante que se necesita saber es que la hermana de este hombre está al tanto de sus actos.
El argumento de esta historia no está mal. Si bien no es nada especial, entretiene lo justo para una tarde de verano y puede que a los fans de la serie y de las novelas les guste mucho más que a mí. Eché bastante en falta un argumento menos predecible. La trama comienza bien y enseguida se ve que hay algo raro en el asesinato que investigan Dexter y su hermana. Luego, la mujer de Dexter descubre una invitación a una reunión de antiguos alumnos a la que también asiste un matón al que Dexter le dio una lección para que lo dejara en paz cuando eran compañeros de clase. Es a partir de este momento cuando todo se tuerce. Obviamente, el matón sólo ha cambiado aparentemente, pero sigue abusando de su poder en secreto. Y, obviamente, Dexter es el único que sospecha de él. Éste es precisamente el problema. No hay nada que haga que el lector dude de que Dexter tiene razón.
Lo mejor: el giro del final en el que se descubre la verdadera razón del asesinato.
Lo peor: cinco grapas, que es lo que contiene este tomo, no suele ser espacio suficiente para desarrollar una buena historia de misterio.
Dexter serisinin yaratıcısı olan Jeff Lindsay tarafından yazılan ve Marvel tarafından yayımlanan bir miniseri çizgi roman. Büyük bir beklentiyle okunulmaması gerekiyor. Yoksa hayal kırıklığı ile çizgi romanı bitirmeniz yüksek ihtimal.
Hikâye, Dexter’ın Rita ile lise mezuniyet toplantısına katılmasıyla birlikte başlıyor. Eski zorba sınıf arkadaşıyla karşılaşan Dexter, geçmişten gelen tehditlerle tekrar yüzleşiyor. Üstüne zorba sınıf arkadaşının çevresinde garip cinayetler işlenmesiyle Dexter'ın radarına girmeyi başarıyor.
Üst seviye bir hikayesi yok. Dexter temasına uygun olsada kendi başına güçlü bir hikayesi olmadığından olaylar yüzeysel geliyor. Ve diziylede bir bağlantısı yok. Çizgi romanın yazarı kitabın yazarı olduğu için 2 ve 3. kitap arasında geçen minik bir ekstra içerik diye duydum. Ne kadar doğru bilmem. Tempo olarak sıkıntısı yok. Akıcı ve hızlı şekilde bitiyor ama çizim tarzı yer yer göze biraz batmıyor dersem yalan olur. Neyse zaten üst düzey bir şey beklemiyordum. Çerezlik oku geç çizgi romanı.
True to Lindsay's Dexter this is a fun quick one off story. As a book lover who also enjoys screen adaptions critically Dexter holds the gold standard for the right way to do it. the show takes characters from a book we love and quickly goes in another direction to establish it's own identity rather than riding a line that will be compared to over and over again for lost details. Lindsay's Dexter is simple put different than what fans of the show want. Appreciating them both separately this comic run holds true to the books form. the story is short (un)sweet and to the point. If you're looking for a better developed Dexter story read the full books. For this format it hits the mark. Only reason not a five star is *spoiler alert* the ending doesn't give you the satisfaction of an actual Dexter kill sequence where the moral, if you can call it that, of Dexter always lies. Without that one last punch of purpose I can say that one expectation is not met.
A decent little side story that takes place in an unknown time in the Dexter Novels, and while it doesn't necessarily add much at all to the series storylines, it is a breezy read that should please fans of the series to some capacity. The story isn't crazy and the villain isn't particularly unique, but I did like getting a small amount of insight into Dexter's past. The last issue sort of killed it for me though due to how absurd, unbelievable, and even out of character the climax feels. I'm not sure what compelled Lindsay to have Dexter go to Argentina in the end, but the entire shootout sequence and the slave labor nonsense at the island felt random and wholly out of place! Not a bad read but certainly a frustratingly simple and odd addition to the series that doesn't quite fit into the books structure or world.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
It just didn't feel like Dexter :/ He doesn't solve much and does a few logic jumps but it could be that the format requires a concise narrative.
At the beginning I thought it was feeling weird because comic Dexter does not physically look like tv series Dexter, but even compared to book Dexter, where there is no recognizable face, it felt inconsistent to its core.
He could have been a cop and it wouldn't change a thing! Being a lab geek and abusing his power is so ingrained in Dexter that it felt weird not exploring that.
Deborah is physically mean, the dark passenger is now an oracle of truth AND THE WORST THING THEY COULD HAVE POSSIBLE DONE, THEY CHANGED DEXTER RITUAL!!!! THERE IS NO PERFECT PLASTIC ROOM!!!!! 😞
I would have given this collection more stars if the ending had been a bit more satisfactory, but everything is resolved so quickly that you can't help but feel disappointed. The art style is interesting, giving the look of the characters a twist to separate them from their TV show counterparts, while the writing for Dexter is on point (of course, being written by his creator, it should be!). I found it a little frustrating that the first five or so pages of each consecutive issues rehashed the events from the series so far, but if I'd been reading the single issues monthly it would have saved me a lot of rereading.
I wanted to see the ending! It didn't really feel finished. :(
Great artwork, fun set-up, but it definitely felt incomplete, although you could argue that that was the ending. I wanted the final battle, etc. Maybe there's another issue that I missed?
Fun read. I like that the artwork shadowed the appearances of the character from the show, but didn't duplicate it.
I'm a sucker for these Dexter/serial killer story-lines.
the story was alright, the characterization was accurate, and the vibes were there, but sorry, i wish the art was based on the actors from the tv show. it’s hard to see dexter when he doesn’t look like dexter, you know? in true jeff lindsay style, dexter didn’t kill anyone. wah wah. and i could’ve done without each issue beginning with a recap of the previous ones.
I thought it was just ok. It didn't give me the feeling the show had. Compared to the show, this just meh. I thought more could have been done with story. I mean, someone from Dexter's past knows exactly what Dexter does? The guy could've blackmailed Dexter! But does he? No. There isn't even a Dexter killing! Come on!
This was bad! The art, wow, looks nasty. So basic and lacking detail. Characters were simple, this should have been better. Better designer. The flash backs. Glad there aren’t more of these books. Wouldn’t go near them. Very unfortunate. I loved the novels and reread them. But this was a bad idea
I haven't seen the show, only what I read and see on the previews. But this was ok, it wasn't that great to be honest. It was a quick read knocked it out in less than a day.