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Sleeper
Sleeper, Vol. 2: All False Moves
Through acts of violence and murder against his friends and his country, Holden Carver has infiltrated the world's most dangerous super-powered criminal organization. But with the one man who is aware of Carver's true assignment and allegiance in a coma, the undercover operative finds himself trapped with no one he can trust. Now after being captured by his own government, Carver must find a way to prove the existence and validity of his mission or before he is forced to answer for his treasonous crime. Suggested for Mature Readers.
144 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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Ed Brubaker
1,794 books3,019 followersEd Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.
Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central and Uncanny X-Men. In more recent years, he has focused solely on creator-owned titles for Image Comics, such as Fatale, Criminal, Velvet and Kill or Be Killed.
In 2016, Brubaker ventured into television, joining the writing staff of the HBO series Westworld.
Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central and Uncanny X-Men. In more recent years, he has focused solely on creator-owned titles for Image Comics, such as Fatale, Criminal, Velvet and Kill or Be Killed.
In 2016, Brubaker ventured into television, joining the writing staff of the HBO series Westworld.
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July 11, 2018
Undercover agent
Oh, Miss Misery,
I never had a dream that was such a pain to me
Undercover agent
The answer to my prayer
You made me know that there's an escape route out there
Y’all can try to sing it to the tune of Alan O’ Day’s Undercover Angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-xRM...
Just when you thought Holden Carver was stuck being a secret double secret agent forever…hope!
Super powered Holden infiltrated an evil secret group bent on world domination at the behest of his superior, but his superior, the only person who knows he’s working for the good guys, is now in a coma and Holden despaired that he had no one else to turn to and no way out. So, even though there’s seemingly light at the end of the tunnel, he’s still a marked man, not only with the “good” guys, but the evil secret group bent on world domination now knows it has a double agent in their midst.
To complicate matters, Holden has fallen for one of his team members, the aptly named Miss Misery…
…and feels conflicted about turning against his new pal, Genocide.
What Brubaker/Phillips do well is ratchet up the tension as the walls begin to close in and Holden makes like Sisyphus as he tries to surmount the inevitable mountain of events that could lead to his revealing.
The only problem I had with this book is the backstory of Tao , the leader of the evil secret group bent on world domination and his pages long monologue in trying to convince Holden that he’s above the whole “good” and “evil” organization thing.
Bottom line: Brubaker/Phillips are generally a formidable team and overall this run has been exceptional, with the slight drop off towards the end of this volume.
June 12, 2018
Tao gets word that there's a mole in his organization and now the hunt is on. Holden has to try and cover his ass without tipping anyone off. Then when he does get a change to get out, will he take it? This is Criminal and Velvet amped up to 11. Brubaker and Philips deliver twist after twist. It really doesn't get any better.
May 13, 2025
Brubaker and Phillips double down in All False Moves, turning up the paranoia, double-crosses, and moral rot. The tension is razor-sharp—every move feels like it could be the last, and you’re never sure who’s using who. Holden’s descent is equal parts thrilling and tragic, and the art keeps pace with a moody, punch-to-the-gut atmosphere. It’s spy fiction soaked in shadows and guilt, and it absolutely rules.
February 17, 2015
This is really well written, this Ed Brubaker tale, really tightly constructed thriller. Not really as noirish as it is just high crime drama… with superpowers thrown in, though the human and ethical dimensions of the tale come through the fast-paced action. As I suspected would happen, I am getting hooked on this story, and it is Brubaker's fault… though Phillips's art is bound to the telling in the way it should be, that you don't realize it is drawn until you write the review. These two work seamlessly together.
January 27, 2025
Enough twists and turns to keep me hooked. Holden Carver is still trying to find a way to come out of deep cover without being arrested as a criminal.
April 20, 2014
Vol 2. of Sleeper is outstanding. Holden Carver is in way too deep, and here things get even tighter for him. Tao, the head of the 'evil corporation' he works as a higher up for is now searching for a mole. A random message appears with someone claiming to be there to get Holden out, but the only person who even knows he's a sleeper agent is in a coma...so who is it? This reads like an alternate script to a Bourne movie. Holden is a character who's easy to relate to, lost completely, not really sure who's good/bad, and pretty sure no matter what he does, nothing will make a difference. He barely holds on, clinging to a friendship with one sociopath and sleeping with another. That sounds ridiculous, but when you read it, it actually works.
The background story on his friend and his origin is heartbreaking, especially considering where in the plot Brubaker finally reveals it. Bravo on that move.
I want this to be a movie. Everything just comes together here.
The background story on his friend and his origin is heartbreaking, especially considering where in the plot Brubaker finally reveals it. Bravo on that move.
I want this to be a movie. Everything just comes together here.
April 3, 2019
Holden checks a dead drop he recognized from his past with Lynch. He finds a note from former agent Sir Malcolm Jones who claims he was sent by Lynch to get Holden out. Holden is forced to believe him, but it's not going to be easy to extract him from the organization of a genius-level villain. He needs complete focus and plenty of luck when he finds himself alone and sought by both sides.
April 19, 2023
Another excellent volume.
Holden is running out of moves now. Everything around him is closing in as the mole is now known through Tao's organization. This leaves Holden not only having to keep himself safe but also stop from the information about who he is to leak out. This leads to more backstabbing, death of others, and saying goodbye to a old life.
Excellent storytelling, great character, twist and turns that hit, amazing art, this is the near perfect package. A 5 out of 5.
Holden is running out of moves now. Everything around him is closing in as the mole is now known through Tao's organization. This leaves Holden not only having to keep himself safe but also stop from the information about who he is to leak out. This leads to more backstabbing, death of others, and saying goodbye to a old life.
Excellent storytelling, great character, twist and turns that hit, amazing art, this is the near perfect package. A 5 out of 5.
November 12, 2023
Lectura 253 (2023) All false moves de Brubaker/Phillips
El segundo volumen es tremendo. El colofon perfecto lleno de acción y buenas ideas. No falta nada para trner un thriller genial. Y vaya final para cambiar todo.
5/5
El segundo volumen es tremendo. El colofon perfecto lleno de acción y buenas ideas. No falta nada para trner un thriller genial. Y vaya final para cambiar todo.
5/5
September 28, 2018
I liked this one significantly more than Vol. 1. Brubaker's a bit tighter with the storytelling and we get to focuses the main players. Phillips is on point as usual.
August 16, 2014
This is a really dark series, not quite noir, but definitely heavy crime drama within a superhero world. With the double agent Carver's only connection to the forces of good out of action, he stumbles deeper into the dark side. The collection focuses on an extraction mission and then a mole hunt, neither of which does much good for Carver. But even as he worries about being able to get out someday, he starts to wonder if he even wants to; friends and lovers are on both sides of the fence.
For as much an ethical conundrum as this is focused on, it's actually pretty heavy on the action. Carver is a man of action, and the story moves more through the conflicts than through conversation. His conflict is borne out in his actions, and the finale of this first series sets the stage for an even darker future.
For as much an ethical conundrum as this is focused on, it's actually pretty heavy on the action. Carver is a man of action, and the story moves more through the conflicts than through conversation. His conflict is borne out in his actions, and the finale of this first series sets the stage for an even darker future.
March 30, 2020
In the wake of 9/11, espionage thrillers became the new detective noir, the former expressing our collective anxiety for the War on Terror just as the latter had for World War II. The archetypal gumshoe of hardboiled fiction -- the best man in his world, per Raymond Chandler in The Simple Art of Murder, and a good enough man for any world -- was supplanted by the skillful superspy, from 24's Jack Bauer to (Matt Damon's) Jason Bourne to (Daniel Craig's) James Bond (and even, to a degree, Christian Bale's Batman, reinterpreted by Christopher J. Nolan in The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Complete Screenplays with Storyboards as a surveillance-state soldier): the reluctant killing machine either trained by, working for, or in the crosshairs of the deep state, who would love nothing more than to be left alone peacefully if only there weren't always some new enemy combatant to whack-a-mole! Pierce Brosnan's 007 wasn't tortured enough -- nor suitably amenable to torture enhanced interrogation -- to cut it in a post-9/11 world of global terror; we needed gritty, not pretty.
Holden Carver, (anti)hero of Sleeper (2003–2005) is cut strictly from the Daniel Craig cloth, a government operative coercively sent to work undercover in a criminal syndicate; however... alien technology has left Holden impervious to pain (much like Victor "Renard" Zokas in The World is Not Enough) -- a little somethin' special to differentiate him from Bourne and Bond and Bauer. And had Brubaker limited the "magic" to that one buy-in -- Holden's extraterrestrial analgesia -- I might've had an easier time getting behind his premise, but Sleeper is part of a larger superhero "universe," so naturally superpowers abound (meaning recurring instances of Double Mumbo Jumbo), and this narrative is beholden to a grander comic-book continuity that I simply don't much care about.
For me, Sleeper was competently entertaining but ultimately standard-issue stuff, trafficking in tropes I've seen in a zillion other spy thrillers and superhero stories. The most intriguing plot development actually turned out to be the revelation of the antagonist's origin and motive in the final chapter of this volume ("The Road to Hell"): .
Sleeper is not a bad book, by any means, I'm just not the audience for it. Furthermore, my hope for 2020 is that we can (finally) move beyond the heretofore uninterrogated mythologies of the twentieth century -- the superheroes, the "tough guys," the deep-state conspiracies -- and start telling new kinds of stories, to help establish a new ethos of empathetic, cooperative coexistence for a correspondingly new millennium. Let the superspy at long last do what he claims to want so badly: go quietly into that good night.
Holden Carver, (anti)hero of Sleeper (2003–2005) is cut strictly from the Daniel Craig cloth, a government operative coercively sent to work undercover in a criminal syndicate; however... alien technology has left Holden impervious to pain (much like Victor "Renard" Zokas in The World is Not Enough) -- a little somethin' special to differentiate him from Bourne and Bond and Bauer. And had Brubaker limited the "magic" to that one buy-in -- Holden's extraterrestrial analgesia -- I might've had an easier time getting behind his premise, but Sleeper is part of a larger superhero "universe," so naturally superpowers abound (meaning recurring instances of Double Mumbo Jumbo), and this narrative is beholden to a grander comic-book continuity that I simply don't much care about.
For me, Sleeper was competently entertaining but ultimately standard-issue stuff, trafficking in tropes I've seen in a zillion other spy thrillers and superhero stories. The most intriguing plot development actually turned out to be the revelation of the antagonist's origin and motive in the final chapter of this volume ("The Road to Hell"): .
Sleeper is not a bad book, by any means, I'm just not the audience for it. Furthermore, my hope for 2020 is that we can (finally) move beyond the heretofore uninterrogated mythologies of the twentieth century -- the superheroes, the "tough guys," the deep-state conspiracies -- and start telling new kinds of stories, to help establish a new ethos of empathetic, cooperative coexistence for a correspondingly new millennium. Let the superspy at long last do what he claims to want so badly: go quietly into that good night.
March 14, 2021
Story continues with some interesting twists, nothing seems what it actually is and can change with blink of an eye, which keeps you hooked up. Nothing is true, everything is permitted... Story is swift, without unnecessary side lines. Narrative is simpler than if first book, although there are still some time jumps, they are easier to track.
January 15, 2017
Für mich der beste Band der Reihe, da hier wirklich in die Materie eingetaucht wird, der Leser bekommt das ganze Konzept zu spüren, das hinter dieser Geschichte steckt. Es geht um Macht, Lügen und Manipulation und um ein Spiel voller undurchsichtiger Absichten, alles ist möglich und jeder zu allem fähig. Dazu wird die Figur Tao ausführlicher beleuchtet und bringt damit Einsichten in seine Motive und elementare Bausteine für den Plot. Das alles ist wieder schnell und dreckig erzählt, düster und voller Gewalt, aber mit viel Geschick zusammengeführt und zeichnerisch wieder sehr ausdrucksstark und zum Ton passend umgesetzt. Man hätte den Sack hier im zweiten Band zumachen sollen.
September 6, 2016
The best thing I read for a while ! High-level Brubaker
May 15, 2022
(Zero spoiler review for the series as a whole) 4.5/5
My Boy Brubaker does it again. I've had the Sleeper sitting on my shelf for something like a year now, after purchasing it at considerable expense on the secondary market, which is the only place and the only price you'll pick up this book for, at the moment at least. And like every other really good book I have sitting on my shelf waiting to be read, I was doing all within my power to not read it. Each time I read a few average books in a row, I knew all I had to do was pick up a Brubaker book and all the bad story blues would just fade out, pun intended. But seeing as how you can only read something for the first time, once, I was admirably succeeding in keeping this little, no doubt gem, unread. But what the hell, it's Christmas, and I deserve it. And I do have a few other Brubaker books sitting there I haven't spoiled yet. Though for how long...
Whilst it took a little while to get going, I really wasn't a fan of the first five issues. Neither Brubaker's writing or Jim Lee's art were really clicking for me. All that changed once the book got going proper, and Mr Sean Philips entered the scene, to smear his beautiful noir chops all over the pages. These two men really do make beautiful music together, and the rest of us get to sit back and admire the results.
Whilst I wasn't the biggest fan of the superhero aspect of this book, finding it a unnecessary, a little ham fisted at times, especially during the (pretty bad) origin stories. Though Ol Ed might have been writing them with tongue firmly in cheek, everything else was pretty much pure gold, and gave me one of the greatest characters to grace the pages of a comic book in Miss Misery. Never before has a Femme been so Fatale, pun intended. I obviously won't spoil anything about her, but hot damn! Whilst she worked amazingly as a secondary character in this story, and likely wouldn't quite come off the same way in her own spin off series, I would kill for some Jennifer Blood type Sleeper spin off starring this twisted and titillating little lady.
Slight gripes aside, this is just yet more proof why Brubaker is the greatest writer still working in comics today. Or still performing at his peak, anyway. Aa few of the old guard float in and out, although most are past their prime. Sleeper might not be my favourite Brubaker story. Hell, it might not even crack the top three, although the fact that its still fucking awesome just goes to show the strength of this man's back catalogue. Get the softcovers if you have to, just make sure you read it. 4.5/5
OmniBen.
My Boy Brubaker does it again. I've had the Sleeper sitting on my shelf for something like a year now, after purchasing it at considerable expense on the secondary market, which is the only place and the only price you'll pick up this book for, at the moment at least. And like every other really good book I have sitting on my shelf waiting to be read, I was doing all within my power to not read it. Each time I read a few average books in a row, I knew all I had to do was pick up a Brubaker book and all the bad story blues would just fade out, pun intended. But seeing as how you can only read something for the first time, once, I was admirably succeeding in keeping this little, no doubt gem, unread. But what the hell, it's Christmas, and I deserve it. And I do have a few other Brubaker books sitting there I haven't spoiled yet. Though for how long...
Whilst it took a little while to get going, I really wasn't a fan of the first five issues. Neither Brubaker's writing or Jim Lee's art were really clicking for me. All that changed once the book got going proper, and Mr Sean Philips entered the scene, to smear his beautiful noir chops all over the pages. These two men really do make beautiful music together, and the rest of us get to sit back and admire the results.
Whilst I wasn't the biggest fan of the superhero aspect of this book, finding it a unnecessary, a little ham fisted at times, especially during the (pretty bad) origin stories. Though Ol Ed might have been writing them with tongue firmly in cheek, everything else was pretty much pure gold, and gave me one of the greatest characters to grace the pages of a comic book in Miss Misery. Never before has a Femme been so Fatale, pun intended. I obviously won't spoil anything about her, but hot damn! Whilst she worked amazingly as a secondary character in this story, and likely wouldn't quite come off the same way in her own spin off series, I would kill for some Jennifer Blood type Sleeper spin off starring this twisted and titillating little lady.
Slight gripes aside, this is just yet more proof why Brubaker is the greatest writer still working in comics today. Or still performing at his peak, anyway. Aa few of the old guard float in and out, although most are past their prime. Sleeper might not be my favourite Brubaker story. Hell, it might not even crack the top three, although the fact that its still fucking awesome just goes to show the strength of this man's back catalogue. Get the softcovers if you have to, just make sure you read it. 4.5/5
OmniBen.
December 12, 2019
In this second volume, Holden has to decide who he really is and what is worth fighting for. And the answer is pretty surprising.
This is a masterclass in writing a suspenseful and engaging comic. Brubaker has a way of making you feel completely lost as far as where the story is going, but grounded somehow with the knowledge of what you have read so far. The greatest thing about this book is the atmosphere that Brubaker uses as a backdrop. The whole time you are reading the book, it feels like any misstep will be the end for Holden. Like him, you don't trust any of the characters, until they meet their untimely end or reveal themselves in someway.
Speaking of characters, I love the way Brubaker gives each cast member a voice of their own. From Holden, to Ms. Misery, to Genocide and everyone else, everyone feels "real" and not just stand in characters such as "best friend" and "romantic love interest". There is a deep sense of characterization that is established from the first volume.
And the art compliments the story greatly. The heavy inks fill the panels with shadows, keeping Holden wondering what may be waiting for him in the darkness. The sketchy lines of the pencil work are a nice metaphor for how Holden's life is going at the moment. Fantastic art by Sean Phillips.
This is a great crime thriller book, with super powers sprinkled in for good measure. Recommended for fans of gritty and suspenseful comics.
This is a masterclass in writing a suspenseful and engaging comic. Brubaker has a way of making you feel completely lost as far as where the story is going, but grounded somehow with the knowledge of what you have read so far. The greatest thing about this book is the atmosphere that Brubaker uses as a backdrop. The whole time you are reading the book, it feels like any misstep will be the end for Holden. Like him, you don't trust any of the characters, until they meet their untimely end or reveal themselves in someway.
Speaking of characters, I love the way Brubaker gives each cast member a voice of their own. From Holden, to Ms. Misery, to Genocide and everyone else, everyone feels "real" and not just stand in characters such as "best friend" and "romantic love interest". There is a deep sense of characterization that is established from the first volume.
And the art compliments the story greatly. The heavy inks fill the panels with shadows, keeping Holden wondering what may be waiting for him in the darkness. The sketchy lines of the pencil work are a nice metaphor for how Holden's life is going at the moment. Fantastic art by Sean Phillips.
This is a great crime thriller book, with super powers sprinkled in for good measure. Recommended for fans of gritty and suspenseful comics.
June 17, 2024
Volumen que hace explotar de excelente forma la apuesta creativa de Brubaker y Phillips en torno a este agente doble que queda en tierra de nadie ante dos organizaciones que se disputan el control mundial. La relación de Holden Carver con Miss Agony también se vuelve un elemento que condiciona a este hombre a no saber discernir si esta nueva vida en el "lado oscuro" que tanto ha defendido estos años, se habrá convertido en su verdadera naturaleza. Nuevos personajes emergen para dinamitar su fachada de informante insertado en la organización de Tao. Por lo que las nuevas misiones asignadas a Holden se vuelven más angustiantes para personaje y lector. Cada vez, Tao está más cerca de descubrir el secreto de Holden... ¿Cómo actuará la mayor mente criminal del mundo ante este agente que no siente dolor y puede redirigirlo?
Es increíble que Sleeper no haya contado con una adaptación televisiva. Quizás impedimentos por el tema de pertenecer al universo Wildstorm (que acabó siendo asimilado por DC) sean la clave. Aunque fácilmente se puede omitir casi al completo los grandes guiños a ese Universo Creativo. La grandeza de Sleeper es que acontece en uno de estos mundos donde super grupos viven las conocidas historias grandilocuentes y no tienen ni idea de estos verdaderos movimientos por el control global. Y Ed Brubaker va más allá al enfocar todo en torno a un solo individuo.
Me gusta mucho la idea argumental recurrente de las "historias de origen" de los personajes en sus narraciones monólogo que no pueden ir más a derribo de los convencionalismos del género.
Es increíble que Sleeper no haya contado con una adaptación televisiva. Quizás impedimentos por el tema de pertenecer al universo Wildstorm (que acabó siendo asimilado por DC) sean la clave. Aunque fácilmente se puede omitir casi al completo los grandes guiños a ese Universo Creativo. La grandeza de Sleeper es que acontece en uno de estos mundos donde super grupos viven las conocidas historias grandilocuentes y no tienen ni idea de estos verdaderos movimientos por el control global. Y Ed Brubaker va más allá al enfocar todo en torno a un solo individuo.
Me gusta mucho la idea argumental recurrente de las "historias de origen" de los personajes en sus narraciones monólogo que no pueden ir más a derribo de los convencionalismos del género.
March 21, 2018
A few years back, Wildstorm was the mack-daddy for intelligent, challenging adventure comics. All of those Marvel and DC readers who complain about wanting progression and change in their characters should've been reading Wildcats Version 3.0 and Sleeper, because these books were showcasing some innovative and exciting ideas without ever letting up on the "fun" of the adventure comic milieu.
What surprises me about Sleeper is that for being such a dark book on the surface, I laughed out loud several times while reading these books. Sure, the humor is pitch black, but it's still there and it's damn funny. The situations are believable in their moral complexity, every choice that Holden can make is a shade of dull charcoal grey.
Sean Phillips art is killer, and Colin Wilson may be even better.
What surprises me about Sleeper is that for being such a dark book on the surface, I laughed out loud several times while reading these books. Sure, the humor is pitch black, but it's still there and it's damn funny. The situations are believable in their moral complexity, every choice that Holden can make is a shade of dull charcoal grey.
Sean Phillips art is killer, and Colin Wilson may be even better.
March 1, 2025
Brubaker introduce nuevos elementos y complica aún más la trama y la vida de su agente doble logrando que no decaiga el interés. El dibujo de Phillips se adapta como un guante al tono oscuro y al desarrollo de una historia que desemboca en un engañoso desenlace con gancho final incluido. El villano desvela su naturaleza y el trasfondo de sus planes y pone en un brete al protagonista sometiéndole a un dilema moral que le obligará a reflexionar sobre su propia identidad, su papel en la trama y su destino. Crítica social, reflexión sobre el ser humano y divertimento inmersivo, todo en un solo paquete. Cómo se disfrutan los cómics cuando están bien hechos.
May 28, 2017
Ed Brubaker's second volume of Sleeper amps up the intrigue as Holden Carver deals with his terrible situation and his feelings. The book does a great job of never letting you know who can be trusted or not and that's how the protagonist feels. There are twists on twists here and they all land well. I think the book would be better served by not involving super powers at all but it doesn't ruin it. Sean Phillips' art is fantastic and perfectly suited for the book. Overall, better than volume one and a very good book.
August 22, 2019
What began as an enjoyable espionage thriller has, while maintaining the aforementioned traits, turned into a connected world with genuinely intriguing characters running around attempting to figure out who they are and how they fit into this world, but it's all to their doom, alive or dead, in what more closely resembles a tragedy. "Sleeper, Vol. 2" takes the strong promise of the prior volume, expands on it, and opens it up to something much grander, on an emotional and a story front. Like nearly every Brubaker/Phillips comic, I can't recommend this enough.
July 2, 2020
As a play on the phrase "one false move," the title is as clever as the story. In a situation where no one can be trusted, how can you decide which side is really right?
I'm still not sure about the ending of this volume, because it's almost too weird, even for this series, but I really want to see where the story goes next.
Sex, violence, betrayal, superpowers of both heroes and villains, along with some bad guys that only a James Bond movie could love.
I have to say that the artwork of Sean Phillips in this series is really great.
I'm still not sure about the ending of this volume, because it's almost too weird, even for this series, but I really want to see where the story goes next.
Sex, violence, betrayal, superpowers of both heroes and villains, along with some bad guys that only a James Bond movie could love.
I have to say that the artwork of Sean Phillips in this series is really great.
February 18, 2023
Tenía algo de miedo con esta segunda temporada de sleeper porque no sabía si iba a mantener el nivel con respecto a la primera y la verdad es que me ha sorprendido para bien.
Brubaker y Phillips consiguen mantener el ritmo cerrar una historia con un final perfecto.
Este cómic lo tiene todo, intriga, acción, seres súper poderosos, espías y unos personajes increíbles. Absolutamente recomendable
Brubaker y Phillips consiguen mantener el ritmo cerrar una historia con un final perfecto.
Este cómic lo tiene todo, intriga, acción, seres súper poderosos, espías y unos personajes increíbles. Absolutamente recomendable
September 4, 2023
4.5 stars
The noose tightens around Carver as he grasps for a possible last ditch attempt to get out of too-deep undercover work. Brubaker’s murky spy plotting is tighter and more thrilling than in vol1. Carver’s camaraderie with his bad guy coworkers is compelling and his philosophical talks with the boss Tao are a particular highlight. Phillips draws it all in his classically attractive style.
The noose tightens around Carver as he grasps for a possible last ditch attempt to get out of too-deep undercover work. Brubaker’s murky spy plotting is tighter and more thrilling than in vol1. Carver’s camaraderie with his bad guy coworkers is compelling and his philosophical talks with the boss Tao are a particular highlight. Phillips draws it all in his classically attractive style.
July 3, 2021
Wow, after a solid opening arc this one just never slowed down and had a tremendous interaction/dialogue between Holden and Tao in the last issue (#12).
Better than I remembered from the first time I read it.
Better than I remembered from the first time I read it.
October 30, 2021
Volume 2 picks up speed and really locks into its premise. The villain is unbeatable. The hero is stuck. And everything is going to hell.
It’s a blast. Loving this re read.
It’s a blast. Loving this re read.
January 19, 2022
Good, but not great. There's a lot of machinery here leading to a change in the protagonist's status quo, and it reads clumsy at times.
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