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Millennium: Sylvain Runberg's Adaptation #5-6
Zamek z piasku, który runął. Millenium, tom 3
Trzeci i ostatni tom komiksowej adaptacji słynnej trylogii Millennium szwedzkiego pisarza Stiega Larssona. Po masakrze w Gosseberdze ciężko ranny Zalaczenko zostaje przewieziony do szpitala, siłacz Niedermann ucieka, a Lisbeth Salander znika bez śladu. Ani policja, ani dziennikarz śledczy Mikael Blomkvist nie wiedzą, czy młoda hakerka przeżyła rzeź.
Tymczasem odradza się – rozwiązana wiele lat wcześniej po upadku państw komunistycznych – Sekcja Specjalna tajnej szwedzkiej policji politycznej. Starzy agenci chcą za wszelką cenę zatrzeć ślady swojej dawnej działalności obejmującej też współpracę z Zalaczenką. Nie cofną się przed najgorszą zbrodnią, byle nie wyszły na jaw ich tajemnice. Czy Blomkvistowi uda się znaleźć sojuszników na tyle silnych, by przeciwstawić się wpływowym członkom sekcji?
Autorami komiksu są Sylvain Runberg, belgijski scenarzysta kilkudziesięciu serii kryminalnych, historycznych i fantastycznych (m. in. trylogii Konungowie) oraz dwaj hiszpańscy rysownicy: José Homs (Red Sonja, Orbital) i Manolo Carot, pseudonim Man (En sautant dans le vide, Le Client). Komiks tylko dla dorosłych!
Tymczasem odradza się – rozwiązana wiele lat wcześniej po upadku państw komunistycznych – Sekcja Specjalna tajnej szwedzkiej policji politycznej. Starzy agenci chcą za wszelką cenę zatrzeć ślady swojej dawnej działalności obejmującej też współpracę z Zalaczenką. Nie cofną się przed najgorszą zbrodnią, byle nie wyszły na jaw ich tajemnice. Czy Blomkvistowi uda się znaleźć sojuszników na tyle silnych, by przeciwstawić się wpływowym członkom sekcji?
Autorami komiksu są Sylvain Runberg, belgijski scenarzysta kilkudziesięciu serii kryminalnych, historycznych i fantastycznych (m. in. trylogii Konungowie) oraz dwaj hiszpańscy rysownicy: José Homs (Red Sonja, Orbital) i Manolo Carot, pseudonim Man (En sautant dans le vide, Le Client). Komiks tylko dla dorosłych!
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February 21, 2019
My run for cover with my favorite literary character Lisbeth Salander concludes with The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. Nobody does it better than Stieg Larsson's data security consultant and amateur vigilante and rather than read the novel, I'm on to the next book in a graphic novel adaptation of Larsson's trilogy by French author Sylvain Runberg, with artwork by José Homs and Manolo Carot and English translation by Rachel Zerner published in 2018 by Titan Comics and Hard Case Crime. I won't babble on about why Salander is my favorite literary character, but I feel that Larsson let her down with an action-oriented shoot 'em up as opposed to a mystery befitting her talents.
In the adaptation, Larsson's trilogy concludes with Lisbeth Salander having disappeared after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds in her confrontation in the woods with her evil father Alexander Zalachenko and the outlaw Svavelsjö Motorcycle Club, who are part of a human trafficking ring that investigative journalist and Salander's lover Mikael Blomkvist is set to expose. Accused of murdering two journalists and her vile legal guardian, Salander has become Sweden's most wanted fugitive. While Blomkvist searches for her, a secret, hard right division of Swedish Security Service (Säpo) running the trafficking ring seeks to silence Salander and Blomkvist permanently.
I haven't read The Girl Who Played With Fire or The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest as novels, but I was disappointed by the direction of the story in these back-to-back sequels (think The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions compared to The Matrix). Rather than an absorbing mystery, Salander spends the vast majority of the sequels on the run and separated from Blomkvist. The villains are not only bad but pure evil, leaving a trail of bodies that Freddy Kruger would think of as overkill. The story lacks the character development of the The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, an exception being Blomkvist's editor and married girlfriend Erika Berger. Erika is such an attractive package of free spiritedness and resolution and she's illustrated beautifully in these books, which are gorgeous to read.
Cover by Claudia Ianniciello
Artwork by José Homs
Cover by Claudia Caranfa
In the adaptation, Larsson's trilogy concludes with Lisbeth Salander having disappeared after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds in her confrontation in the woods with her evil father Alexander Zalachenko and the outlaw Svavelsjö Motorcycle Club, who are part of a human trafficking ring that investigative journalist and Salander's lover Mikael Blomkvist is set to expose. Accused of murdering two journalists and her vile legal guardian, Salander has become Sweden's most wanted fugitive. While Blomkvist searches for her, a secret, hard right division of Swedish Security Service (Säpo) running the trafficking ring seeks to silence Salander and Blomkvist permanently.
I haven't read The Girl Who Played With Fire or The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest as novels, but I was disappointed by the direction of the story in these back-to-back sequels (think The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions compared to The Matrix). Rather than an absorbing mystery, Salander spends the vast majority of the sequels on the run and separated from Blomkvist. The villains are not only bad but pure evil, leaving a trail of bodies that Freddy Kruger would think of as overkill. The story lacks the character development of the The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, an exception being Blomkvist's editor and married girlfriend Erika Berger. Erika is such an attractive package of free spiritedness and resolution and she's illustrated beautifully in these books, which are gorgeous to read.
Cover by Claudia Ianniciello
Artwork by José Homs
Cover by Claudia Caranfa
October 10, 2018
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest Titan comic is the third and final graphic novel in this adaptation of the popular Millennium series by Stieg Larsson.
This is the English translation of the popular French comics.
The first and second graphic novels each had a different illustrator, which made the books look very different from each other. Interestingly, this third graphic novel has both of the previous illustrators working together.
This is good and bad.
The colors in this book are sort of a combination between the light colors of book one and the bold/brighter colors of book two.
The drawings were good. However, changing what the characters look like again was slightly ridiculous. Especially for people reading all of the books together. Lisbeth and Mikael look similar to how they looked in book 1 (minus the big heads). However Erika IMO looks completely different in each book. And Gunnar Bjork does not look anything like he did in book two.
One thing that I really liked (and it was also done in the first book) is that page numbers are listed at the bottom of every right page. This might not seem like much. But I found it very helpful as sometimes the pages stick when turning them. So this made it much easier to make sure that I didn't accidentally skip any pages.
Overall, the writing was really strong. It was easy to follow this graphic novel format. This was a great conclusion to an amazing series.
December 20, 2019
As an avid Millenium fan, I preferred the Mina graphic novels.
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December 31, 2020I’m only reading this because I couldn’t get a hold of the third Mina adaptation, but now I want to check out the other two adaptations from Runberg, Homs, and Carot. This was a killer end to the trilogy and I can’t wait to actually read the books next year!
January 11, 2019
Siempre hay personas que nos ayudan, aun cuando nosotros no lo pidamos
June 7, 2018
This book includes issues #5-6 of the Millennium comic series (about 135 pages, combined), which comprise Sylvain Runberg’s complete adaptation of the source novel The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Stieg Larsson’s popular Millennium Trilogy has been adapted into the graphic novel format twice. This French version generally received much acclaim and has been translated and published in 13 countries. However, for five years it was unavailable to American and British readers because there was already a completely different English-language adaptation in print from DC comics and author Denise Mina. Hard Case Crime has translated Runberg’s version, meaning there are now two different English comics available today.
The first two graphic novels in the trilogy used different artists, which resulting in a mildly jarring disconnect because many characters looked different. Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings them both back, merging their work into a single volume. Mikael and Erika both look more similar to their original appearance (from Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). Gunner Bjork, on the other hand, looked markedly different; he was unrecognizable from his scenes in Girl Who Played With Fire. For the most part, the art was restored to the high bar set in the first volume.
The plot was also improved on Fire, relying less on coincidence and circumstance. In fact, this concluding entry answered many nagging questions and provided a satisfying resonance to the character arcs. One of the minor secrets revealed in Fire was that Lisbeth’s father had been an undercover operative for the Swedish federal police years before going rogue as a sex trafficker. It turns out this secret was the key to understanding Lisbeth’s past. After she first tried to kill her abusive father, high ranking intelligence agents arranged for her to be declared mentally incompetent in order to protect one of their most valuable assets.
As Lisbeth and Mikael’s investigations are threatening to expose their secrets, these powerful influential men now set out to wipe out anyone who could harm them. This includes not only our main characters but also the remaining bad guys who survived the last two books.
The standout scene was the series of panels featuring every important character that closes out issue #5, when the stakes are suddenly raised in an unexpected fashion.
Unfortunately, the limitations of the graphic novel format also become apparent in the final issue. It becomes difficult to keep track of all the baddies and how they each fit into the Swedish government. The politics are also a little baffling-- fascists, socialists, neo-nazis, and ultra-conservatives. The courtroom scenes feel condensed, with much of the action narrated by a journalist. I imagine the novel was able to weave a more rich, nuanced slate of characters and scenes.
After Larsson’s death, the Millennium novels were continued by another author, David Lagercrantz. Runberg has not adapted those novels, but he has been commissioned to write new graphic novels with all original stories. I am really looking forward to see what he does with these characters when he is not constrained by anyone else’s source material.
Stieg Larsson’s popular Millennium Trilogy has been adapted into the graphic novel format twice. This French version generally received much acclaim and has been translated and published in 13 countries. However, for five years it was unavailable to American and British readers because there was already a completely different English-language adaptation in print from DC comics and author Denise Mina. Hard Case Crime has translated Runberg’s version, meaning there are now two different English comics available today.
The first two graphic novels in the trilogy used different artists, which resulting in a mildly jarring disconnect because many characters looked different. Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest brings them both back, merging their work into a single volume. Mikael and Erika both look more similar to their original appearance (from Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). Gunner Bjork, on the other hand, looked markedly different; he was unrecognizable from his scenes in Girl Who Played With Fire. For the most part, the art was restored to the high bar set in the first volume.
The plot was also improved on Fire, relying less on coincidence and circumstance. In fact, this concluding entry answered many nagging questions and provided a satisfying resonance to the character arcs. One of the minor secrets revealed in Fire was that Lisbeth’s father had been an undercover operative for the Swedish federal police years before going rogue as a sex trafficker. It turns out this secret was the key to understanding Lisbeth’s past. After she first tried to kill her abusive father, high ranking intelligence agents arranged for her to be declared mentally incompetent in order to protect one of their most valuable assets.
As Lisbeth and Mikael’s investigations are threatening to expose their secrets, these powerful influential men now set out to wipe out anyone who could harm them. This includes not only our main characters but also the remaining bad guys who survived the last two books.
The standout scene was the series of panels featuring every important character that closes out issue #5, when the stakes are suddenly raised in an unexpected fashion.
Unfortunately, the limitations of the graphic novel format also become apparent in the final issue. It becomes difficult to keep track of all the baddies and how they each fit into the Swedish government. The politics are also a little baffling-- fascists, socialists, neo-nazis, and ultra-conservatives. The courtroom scenes feel condensed, with much of the action narrated by a journalist. I imagine the novel was able to weave a more rich, nuanced slate of characters and scenes.
After Larsson’s death, the Millennium novels were continued by another author, David Lagercrantz. Runberg has not adapted those novels, but he has been commissioned to write new graphic novels with all original stories. I am really looking forward to see what he does with these characters when he is not constrained by anyone else’s source material.
August 22, 2017
Artwork is great but the horror and thrill that was the original book looses out on being boiled down considerably - read the books before enjoying the art and recap that these comic books really are. They are great but they add to the books if you have read them. If you read these instead of the books you will loose out. Read both but read the books first
February 4, 2021
Se acabó Millenium... dignamente
Se acabó Millenium, y se acabó de manera digna aunque un pelín aburrida.
La historia sigue por los derroteros de sus antecesoras, suecos listos y buenos con mucha, mucha, mucha ética que consiguen vencer a suecos menos listos y malvados con poca, poca, poca moral.
La historia se centra en este tomo en "las cloacas" de la democracia, y en cómo incluso en un país hiperdemocrático como Suecia puede haber grupos de malvados que no respetan el ordenamiento constitucional vigente.
Desde un punto de vista mediterráneo resulta quizás excesivamente nórdico.
Yo, desgraciadamente vivo en un país en el que la democracia históricamente es una excepción, aunque hoy aparentemente está felizmente instaurada, y en el que ciudadanos y políticos están a años luz de los comportamientos y razonamientos profundamente éticos, tolerantes y democráticos de los personajes de Milleniun, así que… alucino con estos suecos.
La novela en sí resulta a veces un poco pesada con tanta explicación de las tramas políticas y constitucionales y los dilemas morales de los 'íntegros' protagonistas. Pero en general está bien.
Lo +: Creo que la historia está bien hilvanada, sin fisuras ni salidas por la tangente. El ritmo es bueno.
Lo -: La trama es un tanto lineal y previsible: los buenos son tan listo y lo planifican todo tan bien que todo les sale según lo previsto. No hay giros inesperados
Se acabó Millenium, y se acabó de manera digna aunque un pelín aburrida.
La historia sigue por los derroteros de sus antecesoras, suecos listos y buenos con mucha, mucha, mucha ética que consiguen vencer a suecos menos listos y malvados con poca, poca, poca moral.
La historia se centra en este tomo en "las cloacas" de la democracia, y en cómo incluso en un país hiperdemocrático como Suecia puede haber grupos de malvados que no respetan el ordenamiento constitucional vigente.
Desde un punto de vista mediterráneo resulta quizás excesivamente nórdico.
Yo, desgraciadamente vivo en un país en el que la democracia históricamente es una excepción, aunque hoy aparentemente está felizmente instaurada, y en el que ciudadanos y políticos están a años luz de los comportamientos y razonamientos profundamente éticos, tolerantes y democráticos de los personajes de Milleniun, así que… alucino con estos suecos.
La novela en sí resulta a veces un poco pesada con tanta explicación de las tramas políticas y constitucionales y los dilemas morales de los 'íntegros' protagonistas. Pero en general está bien.
Lo +: Creo que la historia está bien hilvanada, sin fisuras ni salidas por la tangente. El ritmo es bueno.
Lo -: La trama es un tanto lineal y previsible: los buenos son tan listo y lo planifican todo tan bien que todo les sale según lo previsto. No hay giros inesperados
October 25, 2025
For some reason, Goodreads did not reflect that I read this book in 2018 so there must be two entries for this graphic novel. It is the third volume in Runberg's graphic novel adaptations of Stieg Larsson's brilliant series. The novel is great, but the graphic is good too, but obviously cannot capture the depth of the story (to keep panels manageable.) Lisbeth is recovering from severe injuries sustained at the end of The Girl Who Played with Fire. She and Mikael Blomqvist are under attack from ex-SAPO police officers to cover up the excesses they allowed Zala (Lisbeth's sicko father.) Lisbeth's brother is a dangerous freak and Lisbeth has to intercede, first to save her sister's family and then to save other victims of trafficking. Lisbeth is public enemy #1, and turns herself in so the corruption in SAPO can be eradicated. I found the images of certain characters, especially Lisbeth, inconsistent in this compilation.
March 21, 2021
Of the three, this one felt the most confusing and also the most condensed. It was getting hard to keep track of everyone, their motives, and their names. But despite that, this is still easily a 5 star read because I had a lot of fun with this. I do wish it had been a little bit longer, but at the same time, it would've probably gotten too convoluted that way too. I think what helps is that, once upon a time, I read the original novel. So as the story came back to me, it became a little easier to keep everything straight. The art was fun, I still love Lisbeth, and it's a damn shame this series never got continued the way it should have been.
August 25, 2017
Me gustó mucho leer la trilogía de Stieg Larsson en un formato diferente. Casi quiero leer también el cuarto volumen, lo que escribió David Lagercrantz: tengo gana de ver que hace Lisbeth. ^__^
Este adaptación me ha gustado pero creo que se puede apreciarla sólo si el lector ya leyó las novelas originales. Aquí no hay ningún momento de pausa y la historia salta de un acontecimiento a otro. Es un poco confuso, a ser honesta.
Los dibujos son OK pero son demasiado oscuros, para mí.
Estoy satisfecha de haber leído esta serie.
Este adaptación me ha gustado pero creo que se puede apreciarla sólo si el lector ya leyó las novelas originales. Aquí no hay ningún momento de pausa y la historia salta de un acontecimiento a otro. Es un poco confuso, a ser honesta.
Los dibujos son OK pero son demasiado oscuros, para mí.
Estoy satisfecha de haber leído esta serie.
December 2, 2024
I understand that the graphic novel will be different than the book (or the movies). However, they made Lisbeth out hands on a person who was helping her. That's not in her character. She was aggressive, yes, but not physically aggressive. There was change in the family background history for Lisbeth that I found unnecessary. It makes me want to read the original books to know exactly what it was. Then come back here to update.
January 9, 2018
el mas flojo de la saga, si la segunda se hace pesada por el tema policial, este es peor, ademas de meter terminos burocraticos, realmente no sucede mucho, es muy pesada la lectura, no solo por los nombres suecos, si no aparte por la cantidad de personajes y como esta escrita, se hace lenta e interminable, un final de saga decepcionante.
November 19, 2019
4.5 Estrellas.
Conclusión de la trilogía inicial de Millenium. En la cual se nos narra la conclusión de lo acontecido durante el libro 2.
Aunque a momentos se hace lento, el final es satisfactorio y se cierran muy bien los hilos argumentales.
Conclusión de la trilogía inicial de Millenium. En la cual se nos narra la conclusión de lo acontecido durante el libro 2.
Aunque a momentos se hace lento, el final es satisfactorio y se cierran muy bien los hilos argumentales.
July 4, 2018
Buen cierre de la adaptación de la saga original, y aunque no llega a la calidad del primer tomo sí supera la del segundo y las versiones de Vertigo Comics.
January 28, 2020
Igual de bueno que los anteriores de la saga.
January 30, 2020
Gemial
December 13, 2020
Entretenido, era el que me faltaba para completar la trilogía.
November 1, 2021
Trzyma poziom do końca. Aż nabrałam ochoty żeby w końcu sprawdzić książkę.
December 23, 2022
Final volume of this Hard Case Crime graphic novelization of the famous Stieg Larsson trilogy. Excellently presented. I’m glad I picked these up.
May 13, 2023
A great conclusion to the story. Well written with some great art work.
July 20, 2024
What an absolute disgrace. This garbage doesn't even slightly resemble Larsson's work.
September 6, 2025
Riktigt snygg version.
June 28, 2018
3.5 stars rated up because the comic skipped all the legal crap
Granted, maybe some people are interested in the legal-ese that happened through most of this book during the court case, but I was not one of them. So much goes on in these books that is over my head or I don't follow because of how convoluted it is. This comic nicely summarizes and gives in very brief what you actually need to know to understand what happened. Still not entirely accurate; I thought Erika's pictures had been photoshopped? But again, 'based on' the novels gives them some license to change things. Probably the only comic of the three that I would recommend reading instead of the book, but that's again personal preference regarding the content.
Granted, maybe some people are interested in the legal-ese that happened through most of this book during the court case, but I was not one of them. So much goes on in these books that is over my head or I don't follow because of how convoluted it is. This comic nicely summarizes and gives in very brief what you actually need to know to understand what happened. Still not entirely accurate; I thought Erika's pictures had been photoshopped? But again, 'based on' the novels gives them some license to change things. Probably the only comic of the three that I would recommend reading instead of the book, but that's again personal preference regarding the content.
February 25, 2020
Good series
The end of the trilogy, lots of action and intrigue, this is a twisted tale. Lisbeth is an angry and vengeful anti-hero, a solid character to build a series around. Check it out.
The end of the trilogy, lots of action and intrigue, this is a twisted tale. Lisbeth is an angry and vengeful anti-hero, a solid character to build a series around. Check it out.
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