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Librarian note: This is an older, graphic novel, edition of ISBN 1406371475 (ISBN 13: 9781406371475) and so the ISBN has been moved to the later, textual, edition.
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First published January 2, 2014
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About the author
Tony Lee
520 books47 followersA New York Times Best-selling Graphic Novelist, Tony Lee was born in West London, UK in 1970. Informed by a teacher that he had a comic book style of writing, (a comment meant more as an insult), Tony decided that one day he would write for comics.
Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work.
Moving away from comics, he went back into trade journalism and media marketing/creation. His small press magazine Burnt Offerings was a minor seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the first esoteric magazine to interview mainstream creators like Terry Pratchett and Pat Mills.
Since returning to comics in 2002, he has written for a variety of publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics/Zuda, Games Workshop, Panini Comics, Titan Publishing, AAM/Markosia Enterprises, Rebellion/2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.
He is the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who series of comics from IDW, beginning in July 2009, and his award nominated, creator-owned miniseries Hope Falls was collected by AAM/Markosia in May 2009. His next book with them, From The Pages Of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker, was released in November 2009 to critical acclaim.
Added to this, Tony adapted Pride & Prejudice & Zombies into a graphic novel for Del Rey Publishing, with art by Cliff Richards - this was a New York Times #1 Bestselling Paperback Graphic Novel for May 2010 - he is also adapting Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series into graphic format for Walker Books, the first - Raven's Gate is due out in late 2010, and he has adapted four Horowitz Horror books with Dan Boultwood for Hachette Children's Books.
His other book with Walker Books, Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood (drawn by Sam Hart) was released in 2009 and has already been awarded a Junior Library Guild: Fall 2009 Selection, and 'best for 2010' awards from both the American Library Association and the New York Public Library in the USA, among others. In March 2010 it was announced that it was also a finalist for the Children's Choice Book Awards. The next in the 'Heroes & Heroines' series, Excalibur: The Legend Of King Arthur by Tony Lee & Sam Hart is scheduled for March 2011.
Outside of comics he is writing several books for children.
Tony is represented by Julian Friedmann of the Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency.
Tony is also an accomplished Bard and performer, and has held the High Bard chair of the East Sussex Broomstick Rally on several occasions. His lecture Creating Gods for fun and Profit and his series of lectures on Bards and Ritual Magic were received to critical acclaim, and he still lectures occasionally in London, the Midlands and Sussex. As a Covent Garden Street Performer in the 90's, he performed 'The Scarlet Blade' Street Theatre show at the Edinburgh Festival and at locations across the UK, convincing members of the public to act out an insane pantomime for his amusement.
Added to this Tony is an accomplished storyteller and lecturer on writing, and has performed at libraries, events and schools around the world including the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival, a 2009 tour of India for the British Council, and in 2003 around the Wadi Rum bedouin campfire in Jordan.
Tony currently lives in London with his fiancée, Tracy.
from: http://www.tonylee.co.uk
Tony has written for a variety of mediums including Radio 4, The BBC, commerical television in both the UK and US, magazines and both local and national newspapers. He has also written several award winning local radio campaigns. In 1991 he wrote for a small press comics publisher, of which only one project, The Cost of Miracles in Comic Speculator News was ever printed, and remains his first printed commercial comic work.
Moving away from comics, he went back into trade journalism and media marketing/creation. His small press magazine Burnt Offerings was a minor seller on both sides of the Atlantic, and was the first esoteric magazine to interview mainstream creators like Terry Pratchett and Pat Mills.
Since returning to comics in 2002, he has written for a variety of publishers including Marvel Comics, DC Comics/Zuda, Games Workshop, Panini Comics, Titan Publishing, AAM/Markosia Enterprises, Rebellion/2000ad and IDW Publishing amongst others, writing a variety of creator owned titles and licenses that include X-Men, Spider Man, Doctor Who, Starship Troopers, Wallace & Gromit and Shrek.
He is the writer of the ongoing Doctor Who series of comics from IDW, beginning in July 2009, and his award nominated, creator-owned miniseries Hope Falls was collected by AAM/Markosia in May 2009. His next book with them, From The Pages Of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula': Harker, was released in November 2009 to critical acclaim.
Added to this, Tony adapted Pride & Prejudice & Zombies into a graphic novel for Del Rey Publishing, with art by Cliff Richards - this was a New York Times #1 Bestselling Paperback Graphic Novel for May 2010 - he is also adapting Anthony Horowitz's Power of Five series into graphic format for Walker Books, the first - Raven's Gate is due out in late 2010, and he has adapted four Horowitz Horror books with Dan Boultwood for Hachette Children's Books.
His other book with Walker Books, Outlaw: The Legend Of Robin Hood (drawn by Sam Hart) was released in 2009 and has already been awarded a Junior Library Guild: Fall 2009 Selection, and 'best for 2010' awards from both the American Library Association and the New York Public Library in the USA, among others. In March 2010 it was announced that it was also a finalist for the Children's Choice Book Awards. The next in the 'Heroes & Heroines' series, Excalibur: The Legend Of King Arthur by Tony Lee & Sam Hart is scheduled for March 2011.
Outside of comics he is writing several books for children.
Tony is represented by Julian Friedmann of the Blake Friedmann Literary, TV and Film Agency.
Tony is also an accomplished Bard and performer, and has held the High Bard chair of the East Sussex Broomstick Rally on several occasions. His lecture Creating Gods for fun and Profit and his series of lectures on Bards and Ritual Magic were received to critical acclaim, and he still lectures occasionally in London, the Midlands and Sussex. As a Covent Garden Street Performer in the 90's, he performed 'The Scarlet Blade' Street Theatre show at the Edinburgh Festival and at locations across the UK, convincing members of the public to act out an insane pantomime for his amusement.
Added to this Tony is an accomplished storyteller and lecturer on writing, and has performed at libraries, events and schools around the world including the 2009 Edinburgh International Book Festival, a 2009 tour of India for the British Council, and in 2003 around the Wadi Rum bedouin campfire in Jordan.
Tony currently lives in London with his fiancée, Tracy.
from: http://www.tonylee.co.uk
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December 3, 2018
A simple art style verging on simply crude, and there are certain clichés in the story telling (the adult sidekick keep insisting that the protagonist doesn't have go through with anything got tiresome very quickly). However, as an adventure, a quest, the story moves along very well at a good pace. Perhaps the original novel would have worked better than this graphic novel.
December 24, 2017
Not my type of book. Good for its genre.
February 24, 2016
-2 stars for the art and -1 for characters/story.
Maybe it has been too long, maybe I got too old for this story, but I just was shaking my head so much while reading this book. They meet someone who they were meant to find, but don't know him or don't even cheer/look like they recognize his name. Sure, they just had a hell of a night, but it was just a bit silly.
Add to that, the whole monster of the book part (this is a reference to this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php...) just got silly and boring. Add to that over the top violence, deaths and strangeness.
I also don't mind Spanish in my books, but please give me a translation. I just gave up Google Translating the stuff, and that is a shame. I didn't get most of what Pedro said. :( Not everyone learns Spanish in schools, you guys. Here, you don't. I took a small course several years ago, but most of it has gone to the lurking depths of my brains. So yeah, it is a shame.
And that was also a problem. I don't mind gore or violence that much, but it was just too much in this book. Bullets, accidents, fires, knives, murders, everyone just dies in such a gruesome way that it was just too much for me. It just made me think that the writer just wrote them for the sake of it, or for getting more kids to like the books.
The dream sequences were just silly and meh. Especially considering the situations these guys were in.
I also got really tired of Matt's and Pedro's whining and complaining. Yes, it sucks that you are the chosen one, yes it sucks you have to do it. But come on guys, do you need to complain all the time? Can't you for once try to actually be awesome? Maybe that is too much to ask of children.
Also kind of weird that they had to go to a specialist for the lines, while I would expect those Incans to know about such stuff.
The art, the art is so ugly and hideous. At times it just looks drawn in a hurry, quick quick, but other times it is just so detailed it gets ugly. People look like zombies, people look like pandas, people don't even look like people any more. There is sadly no real balance in this book. It is either overly simple or it is overly detailed to make it ugly.
And since (for me at least) the art is the most important in a graphic novel, I am deducting 2 stars for it.
Will I be reading the other graphic novels if I see them? Probably not.
Would I recommend this book/graphic novel. No. No I wouldn't. Unless you like the art style, don't mind overdone gruesome deaths, whiny protagonists, monster of the book stuff.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
Maybe it has been too long, maybe I got too old for this story, but I just was shaking my head so much while reading this book. They meet someone who they were meant to find, but don't know him or don't even cheer/look like they recognize his name. Sure, they just had a hell of a night, but it was just a bit silly.
Add to that, the whole monster of the book part (this is a reference to this: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php...) just got silly and boring. Add to that over the top violence, deaths and strangeness.
I also don't mind Spanish in my books, but please give me a translation. I just gave up Google Translating the stuff, and that is a shame. I didn't get most of what Pedro said. :( Not everyone learns Spanish in schools, you guys. Here, you don't. I took a small course several years ago, but most of it has gone to the lurking depths of my brains. So yeah, it is a shame.
And that was also a problem. I don't mind gore or violence that much, but it was just too much in this book. Bullets, accidents, fires, knives, murders, everyone just dies in such a gruesome way that it was just too much for me. It just made me think that the writer just wrote them for the sake of it, or for getting more kids to like the books.
The dream sequences were just silly and meh. Especially considering the situations these guys were in.
I also got really tired of Matt's and Pedro's whining and complaining. Yes, it sucks that you are the chosen one, yes it sucks you have to do it. But come on guys, do you need to complain all the time? Can't you for once try to actually be awesome? Maybe that is too much to ask of children.
Also kind of weird that they had to go to a specialist for the lines, while I would expect those Incans to know about such stuff.
The art, the art is so ugly and hideous. At times it just looks drawn in a hurry, quick quick, but other times it is just so detailed it gets ugly. People look like zombies, people look like pandas, people don't even look like people any more. There is sadly no real balance in this book. It is either overly simple or it is overly detailed to make it ugly.
And since (for me at least) the art is the most important in a graphic novel, I am deducting 2 stars for it.
Will I be reading the other graphic novels if I see them? Probably not.
Would I recommend this book/graphic novel. No. No I wouldn't. Unless you like the art style, don't mind overdone gruesome deaths, whiny protagonists, monster of the book stuff.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
January 14, 2015
A bit of escapism, both in literary style (ie graphic novel) and content (ie end of the world predictions, race against time etc). The art work is simple B&W, lacking the polish or refinement of comics I usually enjoy. Some interesting references to Aztec civilisation, the Incas and ancient cultures around the world.
April 18, 2015
A young boy battles to stop dark forces taking over the world.
A reasonable story but the graphics were a bit too sketchy - in my opinion.
A reasonable story but the graphics were a bit too sketchy - in my opinion.
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