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A #1 New York Times Best Seller!Winner of the 2014 Eisner Award for Best Limited SeriesNew York Times bestselling author, Scott Snyder (American Vampire, Batman, Swamp Thing) and artist Sean Murphy (Punk Rock Jesus, Joe The Barbarian), the incredible team behind the miniseries American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest, are reuniting for the powerful miniseries: THE WAKE.When Marine Biologist Lee Archer is approached by the Department of Homeland Security for help with a new threat, she declines, but quickly realizes they won't take no for an answer. Soon she is plunging to the depths of the Arctic Circle to a secret, underwater oilrig filled with roughnecks and scientists on the brink of an incredible discovery. But when things go horribly wrong, this scientific safe haven will turn into a house of horrors at the bottom of the ocean!Collects THE WAKE #1-10.From the Hardcover edition.
The Wake, by Scott Snyder- Amazon Sales Rank: #99230 in Books
- Brand: Snyder, Scott/ Murphy, Sean (ILT)
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Released on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 10.19" h x .36" w x 6.62" l, .99 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
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"The Wake is as close to an ideal comic book as I've come across. The text and visuals come together in an unsettling sort of harmony, while the tightly paced plot is guaranteed to pull you under."—IGN Praise for Scott Snyder's BATMAN VOL. 1: THE COURT OF OWLS:
"A+. The hero's got personality (and is unafraid to release a quip as sharp as a Batarang), a horde of supervillains, gumption to spare and a whole host of high-tech gadgetry to suitably impress longtime fans and those new to the Dark Knight."—USA TODAYPraise for Sean Murphy's PUNK ROCK JESUS:
"Amazing. The series has been incredible right from the beginning and it ends in a spectacular fashion. It's brilliant and heartbreaking, epic and emotional.... This is book that makes you think.... Don't miss one of the best series of 2012."—IGN
From the Hardcover edition.About the Author Scott Snyder is the bestselling and award-winning writer of Batman, American Vampire and Swamp Thing as well as the short story collection Voodoo Heart. He teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College, NYU and Columbia University. He lives on Long Island with his wife, Jeanie, and his sons Jack and Emmett. He is a dedicated and un-ironic fan of Elvis Presley.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Brilliant By Stephen Vincent Kempton This classy Graphic Novel collects Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy's brilliant series from Vertigo the adult imprint of DC Comics. It was orginaly published in 2013 and 2014 as a series of ten comic books. The series was awarded the Eisner Award for Best Limited Series . That honor is truly warranted.The Book follows the two women living 200 years apart. The first half of the book follows Dr.Lee Archer, a Scientist and a mother. It is set in the near future. This first half resembles the movie Alien but set on the Ocean Floor. The second half of the book switches genres completely. Set 200 hundred years later it follows the plucky young woman named Leeward. It resembles Harlan Ellison's A Boy & His Dog, but is instead A Girl And Her Dolphin. Towards the end the two story lines merge together to become something greater than the sum of it's parts. I don't want to give too many of the surprises away but I need to cover some of the basics. What the story is about is the discovery of a breed of aquatic human looking life and how it effects the human race. Just a warning the effect of reading this blindly like I did can be very off putting. The first half is written in a very traditional style. But then in the second half Snyder flips a switch and the writing becomes much more metapyshical . At first I was disappointed because I liked what it was, and wanted more of the same, but soon I realized it was different but brilliant.It is hard to believe that Scott Snyder has been writing comics just over 5 years. I consider him to be the best writer working for DC Comics and I will buy anything he writes. His prose short story collection of 2006 Voodoo Heart received lots of acclaim. In 2009 he broke into comics doing a few small things for Marvel Comics. It was his 2011 Vertigo series American Vampire which put him on the map. It was awarded both Eisner and Harvey award that first year as Best New series. His current run on The Batman is also considered ground breaking.The equally talented Sean Murphy was been working in the industry a little longer. Some of his best work was Joe The Barbarian which he did with Grant Morrison and Punk Rock Jesus which he also wrote himself. His work on The Wake earned him a Eisner award for best Penciler & Inker. Matt Hollingsworth does the coloring. He is also one of the best in the Industry.The title "The Wake" has a dual nature not only it's nautical meaning but it also describes the moment when our life starts again fresh each morning.Not to over inflate your expectations, just let me confirm this is clearly one of the best Graphic Novel produced this year and should be in the Library of every comic arts fan.
19 of 24 people found the following review helpful. Sunk By Sam Quixote I read and reviewed The Wake Part One (collecting #1-5) in November 2013 and read Part Two (collecting #6-10) recently so I’ve compiled both reviews into this one for the complete 10-issue collected edition. I know, a bad Scott Snyder comic! Well, it had to happen eventually.*The Wake Part One ReviewDr Lee Archer is a cetologist and a single mother who’s approached by a shady government agent to take part in a secret underwater operation to identify the source of a strange sound off the Alaskan coast. The sound belongs to what seems to be a mermaid – but mermaids aren’t real (or are they?) and this one looks and behaves far more monstrously than their fairy tale creations, as Archer and her team are about to discover.This is the first Scott Snyder book since American Vampire that I’ve not completely loved partly because the characters are so two-dimensional and partly because the story just isn’t very interesting. Archer (just the name!) is your standard moral scientist-type – you know Bill Paxton in Twister? That kind. She even has an evil double who’s in bed with the government – you can almost hear the same dialogue, “they’re not in it for the science, man!”.Agent Cruz is your standard issue man in black government type, who talks in a monotone, is very secretive, and of course turns out to be duplicitous, while there’s a bounty hunter character who feels like he’s stepped out of an 80s action movie, who’s here to hunt rare species ‘cos he’s a tough guy! All of the characters are highly unoriginal and boring, and aren’t helped by Sean Murphy’s art. If you’ve read Punk Rock Jesus, you’ll notice how similar Archer looks to Gwen and Agent Cruz to Thomas McKael – it’s like Murphy has a handful of character designs and has to keep reusing them.Story-wise, it’s fairly ok up to a point and then it becomes repetitive. The fish monster predictably escapes because there’s no story otherwise, you’ve got humans trapped in limited space, a cat and mouse chase ensues, and then the ending happens. Reading several issues in a row which are basically just characters running from a monster is frankly boring and there’s little variety in what happens. Move from one part of the station to the next, repeat.Snyder does throw in some interesting scenes now and then, showing us a dystopian Waterworld-esque Earth set 200 years in the future, before hurtling us back hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions, of years back to the past, hinting at a much larger and mysterious story. I loved seeing these but unfortunately they are very brief snippets so most of the time you’re spent with a crew of unconvincing cardboard cut-outs running around. The good news is that the second part looks to be entirely set in the dystopian future with a new set of characters so I anticipate liking that book a lot more than I did this one.Snyder’s writing in The Wake Part One isn’t especially brilliant – he’s always had the propensity to throw in plot-relevant anecdotes into his stories though in The Wake they feel very heavy-handed and awkwardly placed. At one point in the middle of a chase, the characters pause and wait while Archer tells a story! Murphy’s art is fine and I think his fish monster designs are effectively scary but I’m still not as in love with his art as many others are. The Wake is definitely readable despite the script’s flaws and has some interesting story moments but it’s not nearly as good as other books Snyder’s writing at the moment like Batman and Superman Unchained for DC. The Wake Part One is like Aliens crossed with The Abyss but not nearly as good as either.*The Wake Part Two ReviewIf the first part of The Wake was Scott Snyder’s version of The Abyss, the second part is his take on Waterworld.Set 200 years after the events of Part One, the world is now a different place thanks to the fish monsters melting the polar icecaps. Water has flooded the lowest landmasses and humanity survives in loose, scavenger-type camps.Leeward, who we glimpsed here and there in Part One, is now the main character. She’s a fish monster head hunter (literally) with her glider and her trusty dolphin Dash. But she’s searching for a voice on the airwaves - someone called Lee Archer - who could hold the answer to saving the world.I am a massive Scott Snyder fan, though mostly for his work on Batman. I have given The Wake my full attention though it hasn’t impressed me much with the first part turning out to be just ok. The second part though, which I expected to be even better for some reason, is a real let down. You could even say it’s a mess!Leeward’s journey is always obscure and difficult to follow. She muddles along from one strange scenario to the next - she turns on a radio and is chased by this world’s authorities because radio’s are bad?, then she’s in a slave ship, then she’s with pirates, then in the arctic (I thought all the ice melted?), then… I won’t spoil it, but it’s basically Snyder rushing his character from one thing to the next without giving sufficient reason to the reader why. And without knowing why, it’s difficult to care about what’s happening.Snyder’s world-building isn’t very convincing either. The various colonies feel disparate and isolated but there’s apparently some kind of ruling body with a crazy old woman in charge - it just doesn’t seem like it would work. Again, this felt rushed and not very cohesive, like it was thrown together. And none of the characters felt fleshed out - Vivienne, Marlow, Mary, they were all cliches. Vivienne the scheming person in charge, Marlow the military tough, and Mary was the pirate captain who was defined by his action of sipping from his arm glass. They weren’t characters at all.But by far the worst is the final issue of the mini-series which was just one long exposition filled info dump. Snyder likes to throw in random scenes and WTF moments for the reader - he does it in all of his comics - which is sometimes effective and works well in Batman, but not in The Wake. He waits until the last issue to explain why there were scenes of cavemen interacting with fish monsters, why there was what looked like the moon exploding earlier in the series, what the drop is, why… well, that’d be a spoiler, so I’ll stop there. But basically he tried to do too much in this series, left it far too late to explain everything and it felt like it all overwhelmed him by the end. He tried to make all the random pieces fit and he just couldn’t.I don’t love Sean Murphy’s art like some people - it feels too scratchy and his character models are more-or-less the same in every book - but it’s not terrible and he can draw scale really well. Some of the scenes call for the cast to be affected by massive creatures/vehicles, and Murphy’s able to pull off that effect nicely. And Andrew Robinson’s covers have been excellent throughout the series too.The Wake has been a very patchy sci-fi horror story that completely falls apart in the last couple issues, so much so that the last page could be seen as Snyder shrugging and saying to the reader “well, you enjoyed the ride didn’t you? Sorry about dropping the ball for the finale!”.The Wake is definitely my least favourite Snyder book and about the only one I’d say is quite poor. Disappointing.*I gave Part One 3 stars and I’ll give Part Two 2 stars, so let’s split the difference and call this a 2.5 star book.
12 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Man.... I really wanted this to be great By Rubik I like the overall concept (even with the scratchy art, which does get better) but the book suffers, particularly at the end. The beginning is a pretty straightforward "thing from the deep" storyline with a few surprises and twists. The middle suddenly gets awesome with a forward jump into the long-extended wake of the first part. Here I was hooked and thinking "Synder really set that up well." But as it wears on to the end I was left wondering about the motivation of almost everyone involved. What exactly was so compelling about traipsing all the way around the world chasing a broadcast? In Snowpiercer there aren't any better options, but in The Wake the characters apparently touch on all sorts of cool and interesting points in their journey (none of which are fleshed out, just snippets of narrative and pictures), yet everybody just continues on toward an unknown goal for vague promises of "something better." Like what? They've all already adapted to the earth as it is. For their entire life, this is what the world has been. So what's the draw? That's where I was confused. Particularly for the antagonists. It is a HUGE mystery as to why they even care about the broadcast, or keeping it from people, let alone wasting the massive resources in pursuing it. I kept waiting for some key reveal, but to no end. It didn't make sense to follow them. There was no benefit.The very end of the book left me hanging. Still not exactly sure what the point of the whole story was. The beginning was good, the middle started to get awesome, but by the end the whole thing collapsed.
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