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Current queen of the book charts and soon to be the star of her own television film, best-selling author Laurell K. Hamilton's vampire hunter continues to take comics by storm! As The Laughing Corpse enters its haunting final act, Anita Blake thinks she has the deadly voodoo priestess who's made her life hell dead to rights... but the necromancer is about to find out her nightmare's only just begun! Find out why everyone in America is talking about Anita! Collects Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The Laughing Corpse - Executioner #1-5.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It took more than ten issues, but at long last Anita Blake does something other than talk. Unfortunately, most of what she actually does in "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The Laughing Corpse Book 3 - Executioner" is completely worthless -- our allegedly buttkicking heroine seems to spend most of the ending of the story getting kicked around.
While the police check Dominga's basement, Anita sits on a couch and trades threats with the old lady. But there's something much nastier in the suburban neighborhood -- a zombie who attacks her in short order, and has to be wasted by a couple guys with flamethrowers. I'm so impressed by her awe-inspiring fighting skills. Why do they call her the "executioner" again?
But there's still one other bad guy to be dealt with -- Harold Gaynor, who intends to have Anita raise his preferred zombie whether she likes it or not. And he's in league with Dominga, who has raised an unholy horror to attack Anita -- but of course, Anita pulls her magically delicious necromantic powers out of her hat.
I'll give Laurell K Hamilton credit -- there are some brief moments where Anita Blake actually manages to kick butt, usually by beating someone with a chair or poking them in the eye. And there's a brief moment of awesomeness at the very end when we finally see Anita doing something really gross and weird with zombies.
Unfortunately, all parts of the story that DON'T involve actual fighting are pathetically boring -- Anita seems to spend most of the story standing around chitchatting or getting her butt kicked. The dialogue is simply awful ("What are you doing?" "Raising the dead, Dominga") and Hamilton still doesn't quite know how comics work (waaaayyyyy too much dialogue).
One hilariously awful scene has Anita standing there for EIGHT PAGES listening to Dominga talking about how she made her grotesque zombie casserole, followed by a cliche rape threat and Anita reveling in how awesome killing people makes her feel ("Killing animals never gave me this kind of rush"). It's so bad, it's almost funny.
And the artwork is still pedestrian -- some of it looks a bit blurry as if the author isn't bothering to make anything but Henchman #1's mustache crisp and defined. And Anita's collagen lips, hair tentacle and strangely plastic face are still there.
And despite her one moment of awesome, Anita remains horribly ineffectual -- she constantly gets beaten up by henchmen, choked by zombies (which she doesn't even kill), and even gets slapped around by an old lady. Despite all this, we're supposed to believe that she's scary tough ("He's dead now" -- yeah, no thanks to YOU). And Jean-Claude pops up randomly at the end (doesn't he have ANYTHING better to do?!) to inspire laughter with his swishy pirate clothes and pallid cobblestone abs (which inspire me to sing "Sugar Lumps" by Flight of the Conchords).
There are some brief moments of horror and action in "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The Laughing Corpse Book 3 - Executioner," but the rest of the time it's hard not to yawn.
While the police check Dominga's basement, Anita sits on a couch and trades threats with the old lady. But there's something much nastier in the suburban neighborhood -- a zombie who attacks her in short order, and has to be wasted by a couple guys with flamethrowers. I'm so impressed by her awe-inspiring fighting skills. Why do they call her the "executioner" again?
But there's still one other bad guy to be dealt with -- Harold Gaynor, who intends to have Anita raise his preferred zombie whether she likes it or not. And he's in league with Dominga, who has raised an unholy horror to attack Anita -- but of course, Anita pulls her magically delicious necromantic powers out of her hat.
I'll give Laurell K Hamilton credit -- there are some brief moments where Anita Blake actually manages to kick butt, usually by beating someone with a chair or poking them in the eye. And there's a brief moment of awesomeness at the very end when we finally see Anita doing something really gross and weird with zombies.
Unfortunately, all parts of the story that DON'T involve actual fighting are pathetically boring -- Anita seems to spend most of the story standing around chitchatting or getting her butt kicked. The dialogue is simply awful ("What are you doing?" "Raising the dead, Dominga") and Hamilton still doesn't quite know how comics work (waaaayyyyy too much dialogue).
One hilariously awful scene has Anita standing there for EIGHT PAGES listening to Dominga talking about how she made her grotesque zombie casserole, followed by a cliche rape threat and Anita reveling in how awesome killing people makes her feel ("Killing animals never gave me this kind of rush"). It's so bad, it's almost funny.
And the artwork is still pedestrian -- some of it looks a bit blurry as if the author isn't bothering to make anything but Henchman #1's mustache crisp and defined. And Anita's collagen lips, hair tentacle and strangely plastic face are still there.
And despite her one moment of awesome, Anita remains horribly ineffectual -- she constantly gets beaten up by henchmen, choked by zombies (which she doesn't even kill), and even gets slapped around by an old lady. Despite all this, we're supposed to believe that she's scary tough ("He's dead now" -- yeah, no thanks to YOU). And Jean-Claude pops up randomly at the end (doesn't he have ANYTHING better to do?!) to inspire laughter with his swishy pirate clothes and pallid cobblestone abs (which inspire me to sing "Sugar Lumps" by Flight of the Conchords).
There are some brief moments of horror and action in "Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: The Laughing Corpse Book 3 - Executioner," but the rest of the time it's hard not to yawn.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This was a decent enough ending to the series but it didn't need to take as long as it did to get to the point. Anita finally cuts loose in this one and its fairly impressive but the story itself isn't entirely interesting.
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These comic books are exceptionally well done and they made for the perfect gift. They came in on time and they were in great condition. Thank you!
Follows series perfectly
12 Feb 2011
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Ive read almost all the books and the comics are so perfectly down that before u read u know which character is which. The artwork is perfect planning on getting the whole comic series definitely recommend.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Decent ending to a slow series
3 Aug 2010
Format:Hardcover
This was a decent enough ending to the series but it didn't need to take as long as it did to get to the point. Anita finally cuts loose in this one and its fairly impressive but the story itself isn't entirely interesting.
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