By: Chuck Dixon Publisher: Hyperion Book CH Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Hyperion Book CH Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 144 Publication Date: October 23, 2007 Reading Level: Young Adult Release Date: October 23, 2007
Product Description: Meet Lady Sin: a Spanish Donessa who searches the seven seas on a quest for vengeance. It's 1687, and pirate captain Blackjack Tom sets siege on a Spanish galleon. All the brave Spaniards are killed - save for one: the beautiful, aristocratic Donessa, who vows to take revenge. She seizes control of one of Blackjack Tom's ships; is rechristened "Lady Sin," the most bloodthirsty - and comeliest - lady pirate on the high seas; and sets sail to find her kidnapped mother and brother.
This graphic novel, exquisitely drawn and colored by Steve Epting and Frank D'Aramta, brings the violent and swashbuckling era to vivid life. Chuck Dixon's dark and action-paced story has a moral depth that may take novice graphic-novel readers by surprise. As Comic Book News said: "Forget those peg-leg walk-the-plank melodramas--Dixon and Epting are going for reality here with a pirate saga that captures the gritty truth of nautical adventures."
Excellent, ends to soon An excellent book in both writing and art. It may look like a comic book but this is a pirate novel in graphic form. This is one of Chuck Dixon's best story ideas tragically cut short by the demise of CrossGen comics. It stands on it's own apart from the rest of CrossGen's "Sigil-verse", and feels like it's part of Earth's history. The art is incredible, better than Steve Epting's superhero work, and really conveys the pirate era in all it's glory. The reason for 4 stars instead of 5 is the fact that the novel is incomplete. The story of the pirate ship "El Cazador" is left unfinished, but more tragically the many intresting people and storylines Dixon introduced will never be fully realized.
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