Gideon Falls #27

Gideon Falls (Single Issues)

by Jeff Lemire, Andrea Sorrentino (Art), Dave Stewart (Art)

“THE END”
The mind-bending conclusion to the Eisner Award-winning series by New York Times bestselling writer JEFF LEMIRE and artist ANDREA SORRENTINO (the creative team behind Green Arrow and Old Man Logan), with the talents of Eisner Award-winning colorist DAVE STEWART!

An oversized (80 page!) giant of a story where all the universes of “Gideon Falls” finally converge. Can the combined forces of this rag-tag band of adventurers be enough to stop the Laughing Man and his limitless legions of evil?!

Genres: Comics, Horror, Graphic Novels, Fantasy

80 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 23, 2020

About the author

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There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name

Jeff Lemire is a New York Times bestselling and award winning author, and creator of the acclaimed graphic novels Sweet Tooth, Essex County, The Underwater Welder, Trillium, Plutona, Black Hammer, Descender, Royal City, and Gideon Falls. His upcoming projects include a host of series and original graphic novels, including the fantasy series Ascender with Dustin Nguyen.

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ehhhh idk man.

I kind of had a feeling this was how the story was going to end but I also felt this whole thing was more confusing than it needed to be. Also didn't really care for the meta-ness of falling out of comic book pages and all the KRITCH KRITCH KRITCH.

And don't get me started on how incredibly annoying it is to read pages upside down on an iPad - yes, I realize I can lock rotation but then I have to unlock for the horizontal pages (some of those were also upside down!) or try to read the tiny text not in full screen ... just unnecessarily irritating.

I'm sure there are people that loved this series but I just ... didn't. I've read a lot of Lemire and I've found that he's very hit-or-miss for me, so if you normally enjoy his stuff you'll probably like this too. I do recommend reading this in trades so it's less confusing. I had to reread issues if it had been a while since I'd read the previous ones so I imagine it would make more sense read in a collection instead of as it was released.

Not a complete waste of time for me and the image of the smiling man is one I won't forget soon but I hope his next series isn't quite so ... this, lol.

[Valéria. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Posledné dlhšie číslo dodalo, čo som od toho chcela a som s koncom nadmieru spokojná. Ak by som mala zhrnúť celú sériu - je to fakt výborne napísaný, originálny horor so zaujímavými postavami ku ktorým si za ten čas človek nejaký ten vzťah vybuduje. Kresba je slasť, Sorrentino je talentovaný jak hovado a znova, to čo predvádza na niektorých stránkach s panelami a na niektorých dvojstránkach, na ktoré by sa dalo pozerať celý deň, je neskutočné. Milujem ako vyzerá mimika tvárí, milujem všetky hororovejšie prvky a Dave Stewart to tou červenou doviedol do dokonalosti.

[Alexander Peterhans · Rating 2 out of 5]

Terrible ending. A real "wait, that's it!?" ending.

To be fair, Lemire doesn't have a very good track record with endings.

[Abbie · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is like having a terrible night terror and then being abruptly woken up and you’re sweating. I need a tv mini-series made of this IMMEDIATELY! The art in this is so trippy and so unique and so terrifying and I loved every panel of it 👏👏👏

[John Funderburg · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good, trippy conclusion to a great, trippy story. This series has been eerie and wonderful.

[Oneirosophos · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mindblowing, amazing, epic multiversial reading.

Cockroach warning though...

[Spencer · Rating 4 out of 5]

And so it ends, Jeff Lemire’s and Andrea Sorrentino’s mind bending series comes to a close. A couple of aspects felt kinda rushed but overall, it was a fantastic send off to this compelling and confusing series. The story is as perplexing as ever and the artwork utterly amazing, not everything is tied up into a neat bow but that was never going to be the case for Gideon Falls.
I adored this series and I imagine I’ll revisit it; it seems like the type of thing that will get even better with re-reads. I highly recommend Gideon Falls for anyone that likes the surreal, strange and thought provoking.

[Larissa Cezana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Uau. Sim, uma expressão de surpresa. No geral, Gideon Falls foi umas das melhores coisas que eu li em 2020. A forma que esta HQ foi construída é sensacional. A constante quebra de padrão, as transições de cenas, as próprias cenas. É tudo muito incrível e viciante. Nenhuma issue foi perda de tempo ou chata de alguma maneira, foi tudo muito intenso e vibrante. Gideon Falls superou minhas expectativa desde a 1ª issue e não me decepcionou com o final, inevitável, por assim dizer. Não tem como não atribuir a nota máxima para meu projeto preferido. Estou muito satisfeita com o resultado. Agora é criar expectativa para sua adaptação para tv chegar perto desta maravilha que Lemire fez.

[Aziz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good ending 👌

[Devon Munn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent series. Creative paneling but i wasn't invested as i would want to be

[Molly Lazer · Rating 4 out of 5]

A suitably creepy end to a creepy series. The artwork in the last half of this finale, with multiple double-page spreads and splashes, was absolutely stunning. I do wish that I got a little bit better sense of what the world actually was at the very end, and more of a sense of who the characters are now. Do they remember anything that came before (I have a sense that the answer is no)? What are their lives like? What world did they actually end up in, or is it a Gideon Falls we've never seen before? But all in all, I thoroughly enjoyed Gideon Falls as a series.

[Mathias Mahieu · Rating 5 out of 5]

An intense, mind-bending finale to a truely incredible creepy serie. I enjoyed and dreaded every issue! The artwork is thought provoking, coupled with an amazingly weird tale, full of broken characters, shattered lifes, falling/failing dimensions and a Black Barn at the center of it all... instant classic.

[Jairo Torres · Rating 3 out of 5]

Binge read the whole thing and I still don't understand why Ballard was alive and well as if nothing had happened, even though he was killed in Volume 1. I don't know, that's just one example of many things that were left unexplained, like why was the MC so important?
I feel like there was a mystery and this issue wasn't the ending ,but just another chapter.

[Sebastien · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the Serie but the ending was not satisfying for me, the art fit beautifully with the story.I was intrigued with the character from the beginning but the closer i got to the end. I realized that I would not fully get the answer I was expecting. Reminded me a bit of the tv show lost.

[Ian Roditi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lean todo Gideon Falls.
Es genial y creepy y ❤

[Amber · Rating 5 out of 5]

ok look honestly, I should have reread the series to get the full impact of this finale, but let's just go with even if I VAGUELY remember the plot, it's still like really, really cool??

[Catarina Prata · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing ending to a truly horrific and beautiful series! Highly up there on art, skills, plot and characters! Highly recommend!