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This special trade paperback edition collects IDW's three one shots based on 24, the award winning TV series from Fox: 24: One Shot, 24 Stories and 24: Midnight Sun.
Presented within these pages, Agent Jack Bauer and CTU battle drug cartels, radical Chechen separatists, ecological and economic chaos and more, in stories ripped from today's headlines and featuring photorealistic art.
Presented within these pages, Agent Jack Bauer and CTU battle drug cartels, radical Chechen separatists, ecological and economic chaos and more, in stories ripped from today's headlines and featuring photorealistic art.
- GenresGraphic NovelsSuspense
156 pages, Paperback
First published November 23, 2005
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January 23, 2021
This is a compilation of the first few 24 comics that bring a few short stories to the series and add to the overall lore and background of the characters. All three of the stories are actually quite good and since each one was originally published separately so the art and writing can be a bit different from issue to issue. The weird part about the comics is they have the running clock, just like in the show... but it's kind of a featureless thing, because the time doesn't matter on such a short story scale like this.
24 One Shot
I think this was one of the weakest of the stories out of the three, but this was also the first one published, so that makes sense that they would improve over time. This story seems to take place before the first season and it's kind of just an extra mission that CTU ran. It involves the IRA (yes, the Irish group) and centers around transporting a key witness. It's pretty interesting to see Walsh, Jack and Nina working together before everything went downhill in the first season. I just thought it was weird that they needed to transport this witness to a safe house, outside of CTU? Other than that, the art is pretty solid and the story is a pretty good action tale overall.
Midnight Sun
Midnight Sun was a really cool story, it was written and drawn by the same team that wrote One Shot, but they've clearly improved from just writing the first story. One of the things that makes this story great is that it takes Jack out of Los Angeles, curiously he's wound up in Alaska. Basically, Jack is undercover as an Environmental Terrorist as they try to break into the ranks of this group that is clearly escalating their activity. Having a mission with Jack undercover was pretty nice, because at this point in time the show mostly just alludes to the fact that Jack has done undercover missions in the past. As with the first comic this was an exciting adventure and everything a 24 fan would expect. The only thing that I can't really tell is where this story takes place is it after or before Season 1? 2? There's no way to tell like we could with the first comic.
24 Stories
Unlike the first two installments this has a different artist, however, they stuck with the same writing team, which was a good move. The art direction tries to have a high degree of almost photo-realism, and the artist manages to achieve this pretty well. It feels less like your normal comic art, which works really well in this kind of a setting. This story takes place a little bit before Season 2 and is a tale about when Jack was undercover with the Salazar's before he turned them in. It's a pretty decent story and they did a good job overlapping it with an event that occurred with CTU Los Angeles at the same time. So Jack is basically sent to LA on a mission for the Salazar's and while there a totally separate hostage event takes place that puts Jack in the middle of the whole thing, but he can't blow his cover! There's a lot of cloak and dagger aspects to this story and I'm actually surprised they managed to fit it all into such a small space and still had it be coherent and exciting. This one was just as good if not better than Midnight Sun in my opinion.
24 One Shot
I think this was one of the weakest of the stories out of the three, but this was also the first one published, so that makes sense that they would improve over time. This story seems to take place before the first season and it's kind of just an extra mission that CTU ran. It involves the IRA (yes, the Irish group) and centers around transporting a key witness. It's pretty interesting to see Walsh, Jack and Nina working together before everything went downhill in the first season. I just thought it was weird that they needed to transport this witness to a safe house, outside of CTU? Other than that, the art is pretty solid and the story is a pretty good action tale overall.
Midnight Sun
Midnight Sun was a really cool story, it was written and drawn by the same team that wrote One Shot, but they've clearly improved from just writing the first story. One of the things that makes this story great is that it takes Jack out of Los Angeles, curiously he's wound up in Alaska. Basically, Jack is undercover as an Environmental Terrorist as they try to break into the ranks of this group that is clearly escalating their activity. Having a mission with Jack undercover was pretty nice, because at this point in time the show mostly just alludes to the fact that Jack has done undercover missions in the past. As with the first comic this was an exciting adventure and everything a 24 fan would expect. The only thing that I can't really tell is where this story takes place is it after or before Season 1? 2? There's no way to tell like we could with the first comic.
24 Stories
Unlike the first two installments this has a different artist, however, they stuck with the same writing team, which was a good move. The art direction tries to have a high degree of almost photo-realism, and the artist manages to achieve this pretty well. It feels less like your normal comic art, which works really well in this kind of a setting. This story takes place a little bit before Season 2 and is a tale about when Jack was undercover with the Salazar's before he turned them in. It's a pretty decent story and they did a good job overlapping it with an event that occurred with CTU Los Angeles at the same time. So Jack is basically sent to LA on a mission for the Salazar's and while there a totally separate hostage event takes place that puts Jack in the middle of the whole thing, but he can't blow his cover! There's a lot of cloak and dagger aspects to this story and I'm actually surprised they managed to fit it all into such a small space and still had it be coherent and exciting. This one was just as good if not better than Midnight Sun in my opinion.
September 25, 2011
The original premise of 24 was fantastic - a true-time series that explored a day in the life of CTU agent Jack Bauer. The continuation of the series with the same protagonist completely ruined the idea. This volume of IDW one-shots continues the Jack Bauer tradition of getting him intermingled within terrorist cells, IRA plots, and foreign fundamentalists. Sadly, the art tries too hard to replicate the series' main actor, and in one segment, even appears to be badly photoshopped images of the actors themselves. I could have found 24 other things to read instead; a recommended pass.
January 2, 2016
I didn't have high expectations of this one, but I was pleasantly surprised. The artwork brought me back to that feeling of watching 24 for the first time.
I felt like it would have been better and more in line with 24 as a tv show if there had been one longer storyline, rather than three really short ones. I thought the third one was by-far the best, for its nostalgia in playing off of an already-existent story in the 24 saga.
I felt like it would have been better and more in line with 24 as a tv show if there had been one longer storyline, rather than three really short ones. I thought the third one was by-far the best, for its nostalgia in playing off of an already-existent story in the 24 saga.
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