alexsiddall's review
4.0
Clever story of an alternative universe which allows time travel, but is otherwise similar to our world. And a battery which lasts forever? I suppose if you're going to accept one the other is no big step.
Enjoyed the action where the girls as well as the boys drive events. Loved the artwork, once I tuned in to the style: many of the pictures are beautiful to look at.
Not quite what I expected from Pullman, but a pleasure anyway, and I read it twice to relish the details.
Enjoyed the action where the girls as well as the boys drive events. Loved the artwork, once I tuned in to the style: many of the pictures are beautiful to look at.
Not quite what I expected from Pullman, but a pleasure anyway, and I read it twice to relish the details.
mat_tobin's review
4.0
I'm going to say 'James Bond does Time-Travel' and I think that would both unfairly dumb down Pullman's graphic novel but also give a fair overview of some of the tropes used. I did enjoy this romp which involves a boat, the Mary Alice, free outside the boundaries of time yet unable to control the course it takes. Meanwhile, in our time, a Steve Jobs type evil-villain mastermind has been hearing of John Blake's boat and wishes to access to the singular device which is allowing Blake and his crew to travel through time.
The graphic novel (first serialised in The Phoenix) has a host of interesting characters. I would have liked to have spent more time getting to know the crew and their backgrounds. As a first in the series (I hope there's more) it's a good start but the characters need fleshing out if we're going to start caring for them.
The graphic novel (first serialised in The Phoenix) has a host of interesting characters. I would have liked to have spent more time getting to know the crew and their backgrounds. As a first in the series (I hope there's more) it's a good start but the characters need fleshing out if we're going to start caring for them.
senordustin's review
2.0
Two stars might be a bit harsh, but I have high expectations of Pullman. Nothing very interesting, neither story nor illustration.
pwbalto's review
5.0
Holy. Moly. If you miss the action-packed, scenery-laden, time-traveling pirate-adjacent girl-powered mystery adventure Philip Pullman of The Golden Compass, you are in for a TREAT. The Mary Alice is a ghost ship that travels under a pall of dense fog. It has been sighted all over the world... for centuries. Governments, scholars, and powerful men are obsessed with finding her. But why? And when a young Australian girl is swept overboard on a trip with her parents, WHO picks her up but the crew of this odd and ancient schooner!
What a great yarn, and marvelous, crystal-clear art to go with it.
What a great yarn, and marvelous, crystal-clear art to go with it.
jasonfurman's review against another edition
3.0
I love [a:Philip Pullman|3618|Philip Pullman|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1396622492p2/3618.jpg] so much that I was happy to get his latest--a graphic novel about a nautical/time travel adventure--while waiting for The Book of Dust this fall. It was a perfectly entertaining story about a schooner that travels through time and space, showing up at critical moments for daring adventures, in this case joining some more normal people in a fight against an super-villain global capitalist of the Bond variety. Nothing in the book felt particularly like Pullman--little in the way of his humanist themes and intricate plotting. That said, the plot was perfectly good if a slightly trite good guys against bad guys. I do not regret reading it but it did not do much to bridge to the fall.
lilycitizen's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
yvonne_larsen's review against another edition
4.0
Når Philip Pullman laver en tegneserie, så har han helt naturligt min opmærksomhed. Og jeg må sige at Pullman skuffer bestemt ikke.
Historien er rigtig spændende og gennem bogen får læseren langsomt mere og mere af forhistorien og det bagvedliggende mysterie afsløret, samtidig med at bogens personer og historie for alvor folder sig ud. Pullman kan simpelthen bare det med skabe en god fantasy historie. Jeg glæder mig allerede til fortsættelsen - hvornår den end kommer.
Bogen får ikke topkarakter da tegnestilen i illustrationerne efter min optik er for almindelig.
Historien er rigtig spændende og gennem bogen får læseren langsomt mere og mere af forhistorien og det bagvedliggende mysterie afsløret, samtidig med at bogens personer og historie for alvor folder sig ud. Pullman kan simpelthen bare det med skabe en god fantasy historie. Jeg glæder mig allerede til fortsættelsen - hvornår den end kommer.
Bogen får ikke topkarakter da tegnestilen i illustrationerne efter min optik er for almindelig.
northern_mint's review
3.0
Alas, I think I got to this book too late. This is the kind of story I think I would've loved between the ages of 7-13. It has a bit too much kid logic on top of the world and characters not being developed as much as I would've liked. It is, however, a short fun little read with time travel, secret agents, and pirates.
3.5 Stars
3.5 Stars