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off I love Ben Templesmiths artwork, its not clean cut panels and pristine colours, its dark and raw, visceral, its blood and fire.
Something to behold, something to look at, take it in and appreciate, leave your microscope behind because you dont see stuff like this every day.

 
I got the opportunity to review this and my thanks to Netgalley amp IDW publishing but instead of the electronic version Ive got the behemoth Kickstarter Hardcover which is a substantial and wickedly impressive piece.

 
The artwork was everything I expected and a hell of a lot more, there was extra artwork in the rear that was just phenomenal and yes I guess I am breaking down into fanboy mode.
Doesn't happen very often, in fact fuck the story I'm just going to show some of the artwork and let it speak for itself.

 
There are many stories about the end of the world, It's a popular subject. These dystopian tales show a bruised and battered humanity, struggling to get by in a world where everything has changed.
In Ben Templesmith's The Squidder, the cause of mankind's decline is a race of ancient alien squids that invaded the planet and wiped out most of humanity.
 But there are those that fight, those that were bred to fight and its all about the fight.

 
That's me done,
 

 
Blood and fire is a familiar backdrop to Ben Templesmith's stuff,
 

 

 

 

 
There's even a bit of sex but not your usual pregnancy I assure you.

 

 
And yep the backdrop is fire,
 

 
Quality, go get it,
 

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A hundredyearold genetically engineered soldier is the humanity's last chance of survival, The Earth is conquered by the great Squid and it's up to one man to deal with it.

The story is interesting, but the font and colours made it almost unreadable, I've read it as a story divided into four parts and had to stop every now and then to rest my eyes.
I tried to like it but I just couldn't, This is my first time trying out Ben Templesmith and I appreciate his art but just not as much when coupled with his writing.
It has to be one or the other, I think, because together they just didn't work out.
If I have to work hard to get into the artwork and understand the story through the graphic panels, I also don't want to be working equally as hard trying to piece the story together via a confusing and stalling narrative.
The two here are all for the art because Templesmith really knows how to put forth the picture of postapocalyptic anguish and I just plain loved the way he paints the night sky.
But he can keep his squid aliens, They were kind of lame anyway, 'The Squidder' is a strange work by Ben Templesmith, but when it was all finished I liked it quite a bit.
I had a hard time reading some of the panels, but that might have been because I had a review copy.


The Squidder is genetically modified human designed to fight off an invasion of squidlike aliens from outer space.
He's the last of his kind, and humans have won the war, sort of, so he spends his time hiring out for mercenary type jobs.
He doesn't like a lot of the people he works for, but he's good at taking a tough job.
He rescues a weird priestess that serves the squids and this is more than he can take since the squids killed his wife, but he sees a chance to rid the world of the squids once and for all.
He finds strange allies and enemies in this fight before it's over,

The story was interesting, A strange futuristic story that felt like a throwback to a Western, I liked Ben Templesmith's art in 'Days of Night' and the art is really interesting, but may not be to

everyone's taste.
It's kind of all over the place and less defined, but I think it's pretty cool, The cover will give you an idea of what the art inside looks like, It was different and I liked it,

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Thank you for allowing me to review this bold graphic novel, Terrific art. Pretty decent story. The story is predictable and not terribly interesting, The best part of it is the art for sure, I could spend all day looking at the pretty things that Ben Templesmith creates, I first found him inDays Of Night and it's been wonderful ever since,

Squidder is the story of a forgotten soldier whose been technologically modified to combat a great alien invasion.
It didn't go so well and humanity has been enslaved ever since, He's finally found the courage and the partner to complete his mission, If the art accompanying this comic was supposed to make me feel dirty, it did a very good job ad doing that.


The sole reason I've not given this a bigger score is that the characters and the narrative were rushed, incomplete.
A nexus queen with just one tentacle horn, The ideas behind it, the gist of it were awesome though,

Long live Cthulhu, Я уже признавалась в любви к создателю восхитительных графических вакханалий после sitelinkDays of Night Omnibus, пролившегося на меня рекой крышесносной жестокости и повышенной кровавости, Пообещав не забывать о Темплсмите, спустя полтора года я доползла до его сольного проекта под названием The Squidder.

Тремя словами можно описать эту книгу: кровь, щупальца и огонь. И если этот набор звучит довольно заманчиво, о при первом приближении становится понятно, что история вторична и даже скучна. Людей поработили и практически истребили осьминогокальмарообразные инопланетные чудища для борьбы с захватчиками были созданы модифицированные солдаты те самые squidders к моменту пролога в живых остался всего один солдат, он же главный герой. Его сопровождают предсказания о спасителе человечества, погибшая жена, потеря смысла жизни, а также новообретенная подружка из служителей кальмарового культа. Фейспалмспойлер: она родит ему меч. Нет, вы не ослышались. Сразу после соития она родит ему Грейсвандир/Экскалибур, который наш избранный тут же использует для шинкования вражьих тушек.

Если выкинуть из уравнения графику что практически невозможно при подобном уровне восхищения и сосредоточиться на сюжете, то тут все грустно. Он отнюдь не провальный, но и ни разу не оригинальный: гдето все это я уже видела в разных вариациях, а Бен, к сожалению, не вдохнул новую жизнь в старыедобрые идеи своим опусом. Кто бы знал, как мне хотелось влюбиться в эту книгу и продолжать восхвалять Темплсмита уже не только как художника, но еще и как рассказчика но моим надеждам не суждено было оправдаться. Собственно, если бы не роскошная графика, то и одной звездочки было бы жалко для этой истории.

sitelinkannikeh. net This is an excellent story that could really do with a prequel book or some form of live action interpretation.
Unfortunately the artwork was masterfully drawn but badly coloured, Entire pages can feel like they are the same colour which can make it very difficult to pick out individual characters or understand exactly what is happening.
Wherein Ben Templesmith gets to draw as many tentacles as he could ever want, . .

This is an apocalypse story with evil squid, If that sounds appealing, and you like Templesmith's distinctive style of grungy, supersaturated art, this is everything you could want.
The Squidder is the last supersoldier still fighting a war against cephalopod overlords who gets roped into an internal battle for power.
The story does a good job of continuously raising the stakes, until it becomes a battle for the very universe, while still keeping our protagonist's place in the conflict believable.
There's lots of excessive violence and gruesomeness, and some of the final conflict seems to overwhelm Templesmith's ability to portray it visually, but it still provides an epic adventure.
Recommended for fans of Templesmith I think others may have trouble getting over the art and getting into the story the world building is pretty creative though, so it may be worth it for that alone.
Some really weird, nasty, outthere stuff, with some great artwork, all of which should be expected from Mr.
Templesmith. An old soldier from a forgotten war in a postapocalyptic world that has left him behind is one of the last of the legendary Squidder Legions.
Can a discarded relic with a death wish and a rebellious Squid priestess overthrow humanitys tentacled alien overlords Ben Templesmith returns to his roots to finally do the tentacle/Cthulhuorientated book he's always promised! This is a fun Squiddamn book!

Of course Ben Templesmith's dark, visceral, and obfuscated art takes center stage,
but the writing was decent enough to make it work.


Hail Squid






!!! I was a backer for The Squidder on sitelinkKickstarter, so the version I read is the complete hardcover graphic novel published byFlood rather than the IDW hardcover collected trade.
Ben Templesmith writer and illustrator described it as a "director's cut" which indicates that it may have some additional content.
The physical book itself is beautiful with wraparound cover, high quality heavy satin finish stock, UV ink highlights on the cover, and just overall quality product.
Many of the pages seemed just a touch out of focus, like the plates weren't perfectly calibrated which was especially distracting when the dialogue was either red on black or green on black.
The art and the story are like a fever dream, Moments of clarity in a disorienting haze of stimulus, Templesmith works with ink on paper and all the coloring is watercolor, It cannot be overstated how mesmerizing the effect can be, The combination creates nuance and subtlety and infinite variation of tones within a single frame, The colors are natural earthy shades, rust and patina, The mood they set are the backbone of the storytelling, Most of the ink illustration is loose and energetic, There can be a very kinetic feel to it, but as often as not the action is lost in an explosion of ink and paint.
The anatomy of the characters are fluid and inconsistent, but as many are squidlike I guess that is to be expected.
I haven't really discussed the story yet, and mentioning it this late makes it seem like and afterthought, but that is probably appropriate.
The Squidder is a murky, postapocalyptic, ronin folktale, His wife and child are dead, He is the last warrior standing, facing an impossibly strong enemy, There is a magical MacGuffin which makes our hero the one man in all of creation uniquely suited to save his world.
It is as paintbynumbers as the actual painting is not, I think Templesmith just wanted to have a Lovecraftian story where he could paint really cool epic scenes with a lot of tentacles.
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