Nancy A. Collins
Autor(a) de Midnight Blue: Sonja Blue Collection
About the Author
Image credit: Uploaded to Wikipedia by the author - 2004
Séries
Obras por Nancy A. Collins
Swamp Thing Annual #7 (A Child's Garden Revisited/Rise and Fall/Beauty and the Beast) (1993) — Autor — 11 exemplares
The Sonja Blue Novels Books 1–4 : Sunglasses After Dark, In the Blood, Paint It Black, and A Dozen Black Roses (2017) 8 exemplares
Billy Fearless [short story] 6 exemplares
The Sunday-go-to-Meeting Jaw [short story] 4 exemplares
Raymond [short story] 4 exemplares
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #1 3 exemplares
The Thing from Lovers Lane [short story] 3 exemplares
Thin Walls [short story] 3 exemplares
The Dragon's Heart [short story] 3 exemplares
Jason Vs. Leatherface (Issue #1) 3 exemplares
Swords of Sorrow: Vampirella & Jennifer Blood #4 - The Vampire & the Vigilante! (2015) — Autor — 3 exemplares
Catfish Gal Blues [short story] 3 exemplares
How it Was With the Kraits [short story] 2 exemplares
I'm Gonna Send You Back to Arkansaw [essay] 2 exemplares
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #3 2 exemplares
Big Easy [short story] 2 exemplares
The Worst Thing There Is [short story] 2 exemplares
Cancer Alley [short story] 2 exemplares
The Killer [short story] 2 exemplares
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #4 2 exemplares
The Mender of Broken Dreams [short story] 2 exemplares
Red Sonja: Vulture's Circle #2 2 exemplares
Fat Tuesday [short story] 2 exemplares
Variations on a Theme [short story] 2 exemplares
Down In the Hole [short story] 2 exemplares
Sign of the Silver Hand [short story] 2 exemplares
Junior Teeter And The Bad Shine 2 exemplares
Verotika #3 1 exemplar
Saga of Swamp Thing (1982 series) #111 1 exemplar
Swamp Thing (1993) Annual #7 1 exemplar
Verotika #4 1 exemplar
Verotika #11 1 exemplar
Vampirella 1969 1 exemplar
Vampirella: Feary Tales 1 exemplar
Swamp Thing #112 (October 1991, Vol. 112) 1 exemplar
Saga of Swamp Thing (1982 series) #113 1 exemplar
Fallen Angel: A Magic the Gathering Legend 1 exemplar
Blue Murder: A Sonja Blue Collection 1 exemplar
Return to Hill House 1 exemplar
2099 Unlimited #9 1 exemplar
Absalom's Wake (Absalom's Wake, #1-3) 1 exemplar
Avenue X [short story] 1 exemplar
Vampirella: Feary Tales #1 1 exemplar
Vampirella (2014) #5 - Kauzstadt 1 exemplar
Vampirella (2014) #4 - Lamia 1 exemplar
Seven Devils 1 exemplar
Someone's in the Kitchen [short story] 1 exemplar
Voodoo Chile 1 exemplar
Iphigenia [short story] 1 exemplar
Verotika No.04 1 exemplar
The Land of the Reflected Ones [short story] 1 exemplar
Vampirella: Feary Tales #2 1 exemplar
Firetruck No. 5 [short story] 1 exemplar
Cavalerada [short story] 1 exemplar
The One-Eyed King [short story] 1 exemplar
Without Sin [short story] 1 exemplar
The Sign of the Asp [short story] 1 exemplar
Freaktent [short story] 1 exemplar
The Nonesuch Horror [short story] 1 exemplar
Knifepoint [short story] 1 exemplar
A Grim Fairy Tale [short story] 1 exemplar
Vampirella (2014) #7 - The Kabal 1 exemplar
Sunglasses After Dark #1 1 exemplar
Predator: Hell Come a Walkin' 1 exemplar
Sunglasses After Dark #4 1 exemplar
Vampirella: Feary Tales #3 1 exemplar
Vampirella 2015 Annual 1 exemplar
Angus: Zombie vs. Robot Fighter 1 exemplar
Vampirella (2014) #8 - The Good Doctor 1 exemplar
The One Eyed King 1 exemplar
Altered States; Vampirella 1 exemplar
Vampirella (2014) #10 - Locally Grown 1 exemplar
Vampirella (2014) #9 - The Dragon Chariot 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection (1994) — Contribuidor — 254 exemplares
Hotter Blood: More Tales of Erotic Horror (1991) — Autor, algumas edições; Contribuidor — 147 exemplares
The Further Adventures of Batman, Volume 2: Featuring the Penguin (1992) — Contribuidor — 93 exemplares
Mister October: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala (Volume 2) (2013) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
Trick or Treat: A Collection of Halloween Novellas (Anthology) (2001) — Contribuidor — 22 exemplares
Mister October: An Anthology in Memory of Rick Hautala (Volumes 1 and 2) (2013) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Backstage Passes: An Anthology of Rock & Roll Erotica from the Pages of Blue Blood Magazine (1996) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Science Fiction Eye #07, August 1990 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Science Fiction Eye #08, Winter 1991 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Collins, Nancy Averill
- Data de nascimento
- 1959-09-10
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- McGehee, Arkansas, USA
- Locais de residência
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
New York, New York, USA
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Wilmington, North Carolina, USA - Ocupações
- novelist
short-story writer
comic book writer - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Bram Stoker Award First Novel winner (1990)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 209
- Also by
- 68
- Membros
- 4,362
- Popularidade
- #5,752
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 79
- ISBN
- 156
- Línguas
- 9
- Marcado como favorito
- 16
And man was I disappointed. It seems that main comic Blade Runner series will remain the flagship for a long time to come.
Art is interesting, slightly on a cartoonish side of things, but OK. Most important it is consistent throughout the volume. Coloring is also beautifully done. So graphically very well done work.
Problem is in the story. Story must be the most bland story I read in a while (including comics and prose fiction, even poetry I might add). It is just that story goes from A to B to C to D, even after first issue I knew exactly where this story will go. There is no dramatic element, no place where you wonder if our heroes will survive, will they manage to overcome the next hurdle. There is nothing because from the start it is visible there is no danger to our heroes. Yes, people will die but this happens in the background, almost noiseless because these characters are there just to show how bad things are but we could just as well be without these characters. They add no ..... weight?..... to the story, they are just part of the set, basically nothing.
Don't get me wrong, this is comic, I do not expect some high level of story presentation. But let us look at the stories like Conan, various crime stories (pulp fiction) and even let us go to the main story line of Blade Runner comics - we all know our heroes will survive, but these comics kept me interested to see what is going on, what is lurking behind the next corner, how will our heroes handle it, I mean some kind of progress of both characters and the story, some hint of challenge. This is what makes good story. Otherwise we could all read phone books or political pamphlets for entertainment.
All of this is missing from this volume. Everything is just straight forward, everyone is highly knowledgeable, highly capable that basically there is no ..... story. Two panels could have made the whole volume - Elle coming into the town outside LA on one panel and Elle leaving the city with all dead bad guys in the background on another panel.
Hopefully author's will improve in follow up stories about the Elle. Animated series was great, I truly enjoyed it, I just wish they build up the equivalent story-wise in graphical format.
And one thing that is so cringy and you cannot miss it on pages of this comic, is political messaging. I understand that this is now trendy and everything but it just makes the entire story blah - Russian mafia leading the fracking company that looks like Sauron's lair with all the smoke and towers, good guys living in, for all means and purposes, Eden with enough propellers on all the wind turbines to be able to elevate few miles above ground. Living in such a clean condition and in harmony with nature that I was ..... huh? I mean, what, in else completely polluted world few miles outside LA you basically have equivalent of zero pollution area, clean beautiful blue sky (as opposed to dark, ridiculous smoke area of fracking company) where you can grow food without any problems to feed hundreds o people (in bloody desert)? Not to mention that hover bikes that noone saw for decades, oh yeah they can be fixed in couple of days by only changing the circuit board in mechanic shop in the middle of nowhere (whaaat?). And this Eden of course is built and led by the best and brightest from all over - scientists, engineers, medical personnel etc. I mean in any apocalyptic, dystopian story this would be the Holy Grail for all people to find and live there and it exists just outside of LA, few days ride away. I mean, what? I could just see common sense (and I mean it in terms of fiction story) going out the window.
As I said, this political element and preachiness just kills of the story.
In summary, interesting. But nowhere near the quality of the main Blade Runner series.… (mais)