is a unique story, The premise has been done more than a few times, but not the execution little joke there to my knowledge, I really enjoyed it and need to get more of them ASAP, Of course, you never know with comics how much story there will be, I hope we get the whole thing,
The art was awesome, It fit so well with the tone of the story, It was very realistic. The colourer also did a great job, bringing out the emotions,
Definitely recommended. Keeping in mind this is for adults, Comics are not just for kids anymore, Most of the ones I read arefor adults,
I can't seem to find Volumeon Goodreads and I just received it in the mail, I'll probably add it myself then, A very, very "meh" book, The idea a town cursed by immortality has some merit, but, so far, Zdarsky's really done nothing with it, The art is interesting. I guess I'd read another volume, but would hope that more happens than in this first arc, What happens when you go to a town and can't, . . well die
This town is at a standstill, In stillwater you go, and you can get shot, punched, kicked, head chopped off, and so on and still survive, Little did Daniel know that when he entered this town it wouldn't be the FIRST time he's been there, What seems like a town filled with secrets is, . . well a town filled with secrets,
Chip is a pretty great writer, Almost all his Marvel work has been top notch, So I was pretty excited to try this one on, And the first two issues worked really well for me, Then the consistant switch from years started to get annoying and I didn't need every single plot point filled to get the idea of what is happening in this town.
I did enjoy the dialogue, as it is solid, but the characters didn't really get me interested, I especially didn't like Daniel much,
Saying that, I will probably check out volume, The art and story are good enough to keep me intrigued but it was a bit of a letdown, Aout of.,rounded up.
Mixed feelings with this one, The plot and the underlying questions are interesting but the treatment feels like half a letdown,
The supposedly main character is so far an uninteresting angry nobody, . . just like about everybody in the goddamn town for that matter, Stereotypes at best conservative judge vs progressive doctor, psycho law enforcement or mere silhouettes, the cast dont exist enough to care for them,
Yet Im intrigued, Not really why It happened, I dont think it matters one bit, but how the situation has been dealt with these past years and what consequences on the people.
And if Im honest the story is rather well told, Well placed flashbacks, good cliffhangers, . . but the lack of meaningful character is really annoying,
On the drawing board Ramon Perez does a good job but I expected better from him, As for the colors its a matter of taste, really, but I simply dont like the pastel theme chosen for the overall aspect of the book,
Oh well,Ill be back for book two anyway, The creepy small town where outsiders aren't welcome lest they stumble on its dark secret pretty much a subgenre in its own right, But goodness,
this one fits the times to a tee, As with so many new series over the past few months, I don't know whether the concept preceded the Event, but it's hard to read the restive citizens of Stillwater bridling at being cut off from any family and friends beyond walking distance, or the line in defence of outmoded habits from a longgone life, "Sometimes.
. you just want to feel like nothing changed, especially when nothing changes", and not take it as thes recast, Of course, because even horror stories tend to be preferable to the real world nowadays, unlike us they do at least get a countervailing benefit: in Stillwater, nobody ages, or dies, and any injury from the smallest to the most horrific will heal in next to no time.
The story is pretty good at working through the ramifications of this so the townsfolk can't even get drunk to kill time, and they have an awful lot of time to kill equally, brutal violence becomes a perfectly normal way to deal with a minor annoyance, because it doesn't have any lasting consequences.
And yet where that could easily have turned the situation cartoonish compare and contrast The Old Guard, or at least the comics version, Perez' art does keep it grounded and disturbing.
Speaking of 'grounded', the town's alternative to prison, . . yeah, it makes sense, and it's really not nice,
Fundamentally, though, it does feel very much as if it's operating within an established field, as against the eyecatching pitch on a previous Zdarsky Image book such as Kaptara 'snarky gay guy finds himself in an offbrand Masters Of The Universe'.
It's early days yet, but thus far few of the characters have come alive as the individuals they need to be for a constricted story like this to really sing and it doesn't help that events at the end of this volume suggest Stillwater will be moving at a breakneck pace, robbing the reader of the slow build and gradual familiarisation which bolster a comparable series such as Revival.
It's also early days for the town's anomaly lines like "I've been doing this a long time" lose a lot of their force when the town has only been outside entropy since, so still well within the time that a mortal person might have been engaged in any of these jobs, especially in a backwater.
There's also, though this is hardly the first Image book thus afflicted, some really iffy editing a single speech bubble manages to use both 'principle' and 'principal' when it only wants one, as if deciding to split the difference and make sure at least one is correct, and an already deliberately contorted sentence becomes a horribly fluffed reveal when it's rendered as "welcome to the the welcome party".
Im actually soso on this book, The art is a sort of soft watercolor that is quite beautiful at times, This story holds few surprises once the premise becomes clear, But Im hoping for more in the next volume, This is basically just the opening, a slow burn setup, and its intriguing enough that Ill pick up the next one,
I do wonder if Zdarsky did a selfhighfive when he came up with the name Stillwater for a town where nothing ever changes, because its almost too perfect.
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Od Stillwater jsem absolutně nic nečekal a dostal jsem dost možná nejlepšího kandidáta na letošní Eisner Awards, Chip Zdarsky umí psát tak aby mě to zaujalo, Stillwater působí dost nenápadně ale ukrývá v sobě krásný dramátko i úvahu co je pro obytele města Stillwater nejlepší.
Ono je to i trochu generické, nová osoba přijde do tajemného městečka kde řeší problémy ovšem tohle je úplný jiný level než jsem předpokládal.
První volume má excelentní tempo a dává tak nehorázný cliffhanger, že člověk sakra chce vědět co bude dál,
Snad už jen dodám, že Pérezova zjednodušená kresba je strašně příjemná a Spicerovi barvy jsou top, I've read so many of these modern day horror/supernatural/mystery comics at this point, They mostly have a great conceit, a strong first volume, and rapidly spiral out of control to the point where it's hard to care by the end, and that's just the stories that end rather than just stopping.
So, I approached this new Zdarsky story with grave reservations,
I like it, It's a cool core mystery and a cool core obstacle that goes handinhand with it, I like the characters, and I want to know more, But I also see the spiral starting at the end of the volume, because you always seem to have to add more problems to keep the story going.
So, I'll reserve judgement, and hope that I'm still enthusiastic enough when Volumecomes out to pick it up, O Zdarskym som nepochybovala ani na minútu a fakt nebolo prečo, Toto bolo fakt super. Hneď prvý zošit vás hodí do skvelého príbehu, kde týpek Daniel s kamarátom cestujú do mesta Stillwater, pretože Daniel dostane list, že niekde niečo zdedil.
A dostane sa do mesta, .
ktoré je záhadným a divným spôsobom iné, Fakt výborne napísané, zaujímavé postavy a veľmi krásna kresba, Teším sa na ďalší book, lebo prvýchčísel malo skvelé tempo a zaujíma ma, čo bude ďalej, nakoľko som skončilo v bode, kedy proste človek chce a potrebuje dostať viac informácií o tom, čo bude ďalej.
/I quite enjoyed this. The premise itself is interesting, but the book doesn't really capitalize on it very much and instead the story feels a bit pedestrian and goofy, I still found the villains to be quite compelling and the plot moved along at a brisk enough pace that I never really got bored, The main character is pretty damned dull, Six issues in and I still don't really know what his deal is other than he's kind of a loser,
Ramon Perez's artwork is quite nice, though there isn't much in the way of action or interesting sequences for him to really make his mark on in this volume.
An entertaining comic overall, but a tad forgettable, Not a lot to say about this one, . it's solidly middleoftheroad. I'm not jumping to know what happens next in fact, I'm dreading whatever reason Zdarsky has dreamt up for people not aging, . chances are it's going to disappoint, . !, but we'll see. Great dialogue, character work, and art save Stillwater from its cheesy premise: everyone in the town of Stillwater is blessed/cursed with immortality, Daniel's invited to Stillwater on sketchy terms and quickly gets absorbed into its population, despite his welcome not exactly being welcoming the first issue is a doozy of an introduction.
From there, things get political, as a group of insurgents in Stillwater attempt to make contact with the outside world, The villainous Judge and his ruthless sheriffs want to keep the town hidden from the world indefinitely, Daniel's history is gently explored as the world of Stillwater similarly grows, The concluding issue offers an explosive ending to this volume's arc, along with a rather silly twist
Stillwater is a fastpaced, engaging read that looks great, It could have been a lot dumber! I'm on board for more, I'm again almost a year late in checking this out, I began it months ago, lost interest, and am still not all that interested, but hey, I finally finished it, In the town of Stillwater, Oklahoma, people don't age, they don't die, and Daniel comes to the town, Given all the attention now to antiaging drugs and some folks trying to live forever, this Stillwater condition might seem like a blessing to anyone, including Daniel, but of course it's not all that it's cracked up to be it may in fact turn out to be a curse.
I didn't find any of the reflections on immortality, any of the characters, or any particular storyline all that engaging, .