By: Kazu Kibuishi Publisher: Viper Comics Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Viper Comics Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 192 Publication Date: March 30, 2005
Enjoyed every minute of Daisy Kutter! Daisy Kutter is an action packed story that gives the reader a little bit of the Old West combined with a flare for the futuristic/sci-fi. This graphic novel does a wonderful job combining dialogue and art to create a very well-rounded story.
Daisy Kutter is the story of a strong female personality "saving the day" against robots in the Old West. Daisy, a former gunfighter, gives up that life for the slower scene - owning a general store. One day a mysterious card shark comes to town and beats her in a poker shoot out. After he takes her for everything she has, he offers her an enticing deal. He needs her to rob a train. The catch - it's his train!! She takes the deal and embarks on a great action-packed adventure with classic gunfights and plenty of drama!
The drawings in this book really make the story. The dialogue is intriguing, but the reader must "read" the pictures in order to grasp the full story. The drawings are so compelling and tell so much of the story that the dialogue is lost without them.
Overall, a compelling story with an interesting backdrop (Old West and Sci-Fi) complemented by wonderful pictures.
Fantastic art Kazu is one of the best comic artists our there. I love how he creates the environement in the frames, his lines and his storytelling. I love his Copper and I loved this. I'm crossing my fingers for more comics from him.
Good story, strong female lead. Always good to see a powerful story whose protagonist is strong but still human, with dimension and depth... and a woman. Not enough of that in our society, but at least it's here.
The Old West through a fractured lens Set in a strange, Futurist version of the Wild West, female ex-bandit Daisy Kutter is tricked into one last train robbery. But all is not as it seems.
It has wry humor, an appealing lead character, a real feel for the West, & fun art.
I'll bet my eyeteeth the cartoonist has a shelf full of Lamour Westerns at home.
This belongs in an odd little sub-genre called the Weird West, claimed equally by Westerns, Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror, all set in the latter half of America's 19th Century, & west of the Mississippi.
I wanna seem more of Miss Daisy Kutter.
A fine comic The title is actually Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, and it's an excellent graphic novel by Kazu Kibuishi. It's a sort of a space western featuring Daisy Kutter, a former outlaw of mythic repute who gets roped into one more gig. The story is simple and rather unremarkable, but its merits as a comic are many. Kibuishi seems to have mastered the subtle pacing and extended silences that make comics so magical, and he has chosen a level of stylization for his characters that is accessibly cartoonish without being cloying or absurd (think The Incredibles and Tintin rather than Mickey Mouse). One gets the impression he has taken all of Scott McCloud's best advice, consciously or otherwise. Regardless, this is a real gem.
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