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Vertigo: Winter's Edge #2
Vertigo: Winter's Edge (1997-) #2
The sequel to Eisner Award-nominated anthology features a Death story written by THE SANDMAN's Neil Gaiman and a HELLBLAZER story written by Garth Ennis with art by Glyn Dillon.
no. 2 - 1999
Holiday Special
96-page [plus covers = 100]
no. 2 - 1999
Holiday Special
96-page [plus covers = 100]
100 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1999
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Grant Morrison
1,790 books4,569 followersGrant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning their American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then they have written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, they have also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS.
In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.
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August 26, 2020
Framing - Peter Milligan, Sean Phillips - 2* -This uses a man shamelessly begging his family for money as a framing device for the second batch of these Christmas Winter's tales. Not a very good framing device, if I'm being honest.
A Winter's Tale - Neil Gaiman - 3* - Death has a hard job. I loved the story but hated the scratchy black and white art, with better art this would have been 5*.
Edgy Winter - Warren Ellis - 1* - Spider Jerusalem hates Christmas but still, what the hell was this?? It should have been named F'd up Christmas. Just all kinds of bad.
City of Dreams - Steven T. Seagle - 4* - An old "Sandman" story that is the epitome of true 60s pop Comic culture.
We Three Things - Peter Gross - 5* - The best story yet is about three fairies who find a wizard to send them home.
God and Sinners - Ed Brubaker - 4* - An investigator has to spend Christmas in Chicago watching his relatives "suddenly become bizarrely happy strangers" as Christmas comes. His stakeout does not go as planned, and this is the writer's way of teaching us the value of small miracles. Great story.
Style Terror Dress to Kill - Grant Morrison - 1* - Nothing but paper dolls.
New Year's Demolition - Steve Gerber - 2* - New year story featuring Nevada and her ostrich. Just not good.
Marble Halls - Caitlin S. Kiernan - 3* - Nuala returns to the dreaming in her dream, to finally do what she must. Great Story, terrible art.
All Those Little Girls and Boys - Garth Ennis - 4* - The reason why John Constantine hates kids.
A Winter's Tale - Neil Gaiman - 3* - Death has a hard job. I loved the story but hated the scratchy black and white art, with better art this would have been 5*.
Edgy Winter - Warren Ellis - 1* - Spider Jerusalem hates Christmas but still, what the hell was this?? It should have been named F'd up Christmas. Just all kinds of bad.
City of Dreams - Steven T. Seagle - 4* - An old "Sandman" story that is the epitome of true 60s pop Comic culture.
We Three Things - Peter Gross - 5* - The best story yet is about three fairies who find a wizard to send them home.
God and Sinners - Ed Brubaker - 4* - An investigator has to spend Christmas in Chicago watching his relatives "suddenly become bizarrely happy strangers" as Christmas comes. His stakeout does not go as planned, and this is the writer's way of teaching us the value of small miracles. Great story.
Style Terror Dress to Kill - Grant Morrison - 1* - Nothing but paper dolls.
New Year's Demolition - Steve Gerber - 2* - New year story featuring Nevada and her ostrich. Just not good.
Marble Halls - Caitlin S. Kiernan - 3* - Nuala returns to the dreaming in her dream, to finally do what she must. Great Story, terrible art.
All Those Little Girls and Boys - Garth Ennis - 4* - The reason why John Constantine hates kids.
January 5, 2016
La segunda entrega de la breve antología anual que tuvo el sello Vertigo ofrece frutos maduros: Historias bien trazadas y encaminadas que divierten y reflexionan, teniendo como cuento central un relato de The Minx. Del noir al escapismo fantástico, la selección resulta homogénea y grata.
August 13, 2022
Status:
1) First Read: Done specifically to read the "Death: A Winter's Tale" short story in an attempt to read all the stories set in Neil Gaiman's Sandman continuity. Read on 13th August 2022.
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"Death: A Winter's Tail" by Neil Gaiman.
Rating: 2.0/5.
Review:
Inconsequential, mediocre, and unnecessary. Can be easily skipped. 2 stars simply for the art.
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1) First Read: Done specifically to read the "Death: A Winter's Tale" short story in an attempt to read all the stories set in Neil Gaiman's Sandman continuity. Read on 13th August 2022.
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"Death: A Winter's Tail" by Neil Gaiman.
Rating: 2.0/5.
Review:
Inconsequential, mediocre, and unnecessary. Can be easily skipped. 2 stars simply for the art.
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December 26, 2024
Not as good as the first go-around with this. Still has all the big names: Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, Steve Gerber, Garth Ennis... It's just that the stories aren't as enthralling this go around. Plus the framing story stunk.
August 15, 2022
Using this to rate the Death story:
High 10
High 10
April 4, 2022
Read this due to trying to be a completionist with The Sandman Universe. Didn't care for it much at all. Actively disliked parts of it. I'll never really be a fan of Grant Morrison's comics.
God and Sinners and the Timothy Hunter and the Sandman stories were between good and fine.
God and Sinners and the Timothy Hunter and the Sandman stories were between good and fine.
August 17, 2010
"Para muestras vbasta un botón" dicen, pero creo que no es el caso. La mayoría de los guionistas reunidos en esta antología son geniales. Lo mismo los dibujantes. Lo mismo los personajes. ¿Qué es lo que falla entonces? El formato. Muy pocos de los autores aquí reunidos se sienten cómodos con las historias cortitas, de seis a ocho páginas, y eso resiente el relato. Los personajes mismos parecen pedir a gritos que les den más espacio para sus barbaridades. Como los tres libros me transmitieron más o menos lo mismo seguro copipastee esta review en los tres. De más está decir que cuando los relea seguro se gane una rerreseña personalizada cada uno.
May 24, 2018
Segundo especial Vertigo: Al filo del invierno.
Colección Vertigo #113.
Colección Vertigo #113.
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