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It took me a little while to get into this one, but once I did it really sucked me in. The Skinner Sweet half was much more interesting than the Agt. Book half, but overall this is still the best volume so far.

genesis's review

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad fast-paced

3.0

nkives's review against another edition

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4.0

I never thought I would enjoy a vampire series this much, but Snyder (currently writing Batman and Swamp Thing) is doing some amazing work in all of his stuff right now.

iffer's review against another edition

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4.0

This volume takes place during the 1940s. The first half takes place in the Pacific theater, and revolves around Pearl and Henry, whereas the second half focuses on Felicia and the Vassals. Both are great. Albuquerque's style is perfect for the omninous, moody, and violent story, and Sean Murphy's classic line art (reminiscent to me of Dick Tracey) along with noir coloring was dead on (pun intended) as well.

julesjim's review against another edition

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5.0

5 stars for the amazing story on the Pacific island, the best mix of horror and war I've read so far, superb colors and atmosphere, I couldn't stop reading.

stilldirty's review against another edition

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5.0

The story of these books goes without saying that I enjoy it completely, and thus, don't even need to go on about that aspect. Now, the illustration in book three by Rafael Albuquerque is slightly more outstanding than that of book two, but in almost the same energy of book one. The opening story's art by Danijel Zezelj left much to be desired for me, but mostly only because it didn't suit "American Vampire" itself. Basically, more appropriate elsewhere. So Albuquerque's art was much welcomed immediately following that. And then Sean Murphy comes in to draw for the "Survival of the Fittest" story arc, and any socks left on at that point are being knocked right off. Having read these almost solely in the collected editions, I truly, honestly, desperately hope that Murphy will be brought on for more alternate of this, because you cannot find a more perfect match of artist and subject (unless we go back again to talking about Albuquerque). Thank dog for this, because it's so effing good.

sortabadass's review against another edition

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3.0

I think my enjoyment of this graphic novel was somewhat limited by my own stupidity. I thought I picked up the first two volumes of American Vampire from the library and continued to think this the entire time that I read the comic. I didn't realize my mistake until just now when I logged on.

Let's see... The art is wonderful. Albuquerque has an incredible raw and sketchy style that captures the violent energy of the Skinner Sweet stories. Sean Murphy also has a really interesting style.

Again, I can't say much about the story because I am an idiot.

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