Dollhouse was a T.V. show that ran for two seasons. It was actually set to be canceled after season one, but the fans raised hell, and season two came around. When the show originally aired I admit I didn’t watch it. Mostly because during that time my T.V. watching was limited to whatever my parents had on when I visited. Later I started watching the first season on Netflix, and then basically sacrificed a couple days for both seasons, yea, it was that good. The comic starts after Echo takes dow...

I really enjoyed this graphic novel based on the Dollhouse series created by Joss Whedon and starring Eliza Dushku. In this story, Rossum develops tech that wipes the minds of everyone that picks up a phone, and then develops future tech in their attempt to find and kill Echo (Eliza Dushku's character from Dollhouse). Meanwhile, Alpha and Ivy (also from the original Dollhouse series), lead a team to help save Echo and develop tech to reverse Rossum's problems. I enjoyed revisiting this world and...

I loved the TV series and I always thought that it could keep going as a comic. Anyway, this story is far from que quality levels of most of the TV episodes. The best point of the post-apocalypse distopia after the "doll" technology goes out of control is that in the TV series we only get a glympse of how fucked up the world ends up being. Two episodes of that was more than enough to provide a perfect feeling of what the whole series was about. This story happens shortly after the first outbreak...

{This review was originally published on Clear Eyes, Full Shelves.}I adored the television series Dollhouse and was thrilled to learn that it's continuing in graphic novel form--unfortunately, this installment disappointed. If you're not familiar with Dollhouse, the television show developed a cult following in 2009-2010 with it's captivating stories of an evil corporation that ran an underground network of "dollhouses" that allowed wealthy clients to rent people whose personalities had been wi...

great start to the epitaph series, though the book could use some explanation for Rossum's motivation.

I’m a huge Dollhouse fan. I was devastated when it was taken off the air and was left with so many question – the biggest and most mysterious of these was: What happened in between the end of season 2 and the Epitaphs?This graphic novel starts to answer that question. Previously published as a set of five issues, now bound in one handle volume, it’s a must have for any Dollhouse fan. The storyline is true to the TV series and the illustrations are brilliant.Alpha is my favourite character and th...

A great look at the start of the apocalypse. A must read for anyone who enjoyed the show.

Yes, please. I miss this show and the 5 year gap between the actual show of the LA Dollhouse and the last episode where the 'Apocalypse' has already happened definitely needs to be filled in. (At least, I think it's a 5 year gap. It might be more or less, can't quite remember.) Also, seeing Alan Tudyk's character Alpha argue with himself was both terrifying and fascinating. That needs to happen more.Looking forward to the next volume!

When this show was on television I watched every episode - not because I loved it but because like Fox I was a bit gun shy to give up after only 1 season. Firefly taught us all a lesson. Sadly though season 2 didn't make it much better for me. And now this story picks up where the series ended, and correlates with the future episodes the show did. First - the art because that is the most important part of graphic novels to me. I love the coloring in this. The colors during a majority of the stor...

I really liked the television series, especially the first year, but I really didn't like this effort, neither the art or the story. Disappointed.

I haven't actually seen Dollhouse, but I heard good things about it and I generally trust Joss Whedon's imagination, ever since I saw Firefly. So, when I saw this on Netgalley, I requested it and read it as soon as I was given access to it. The art is great throughout: the artist/s captured the actors very well, and it all comes together nicely. I think I liked the scenes of Alpha's fragmenting hold on his personalities most -- I wouldn't have believed, knowing Firefly so well, that you could ma...

Absolutely disappointing. Very boring.

Why read: Received for reviewWhat impressed me: Epitaphs starts off after the Dollhouse TV series ended, managing to both continue the story as well as remind fans of what went down those last few episodes without rehashing ad nauseum. Fan favorites are easily recognizable, visually as well as through action and dialogue. Dollhouse was a constant build up towards its way too early conclusion and this first volume of Epitaphs gives more of the same - building up to something even bigger.What disa...

I hate to slap this rating out there with everyone else's but...I could barely force myself to finish this. I enjoyed the show, Joss Whedon is great, but this lacked substance. I felt disconnected from the characters, like it was an idea: brainwash people via a phone call, and then it was just let's force "dialogue" to explain that idea. They tried to explore the looks versus personality thing, the killing beings that used to be people is bad thing, and the Alpha multiple personalities thing but...

This series is very similar indeed to the Serenity comics, in that they attempt to fill in gaps left by the premature curtailment of the stories told during both series' TV runs. I re-watched Season 2 of Dollhouse in preparation for reading this and that re-familiarisation was probably necessary as I'd forgotten a lot of details from Epitaph 2 (the final episode) that this fairly short comic run attempted to explain. (My memory was hung up on the Magic Bomb plot device that still annoys me - eve...

I read this years ago, but having just rewatched all of Dollhouse I thought now was a good time for a reread. And really — I forgot how good this was! I remember not being as intrigued by this cast of characters since they were minor characters from the series, but this time around I was so intrigued! While I do wish we’d seen Alpha’s journey to being a hero, getting this insight into how his mind works post-apocalypse is so interesting; his guilt and struggles with his original self could have

A couple of weeks ago, I was having a conversation with fellow Whedon scholar--name drop alert--Michael Starr about the Whedonverse comics. We both shared the same basic sentiment: Fray was excellent but what we've read of the continuations of Buffy and Angel were just so-so. In typical Starr fashion, he launched into an analysis of the difference in mediums, how television with its limited budgets could hamstring some of the more fantastic elements. Comic books do not share those limitations. T...

I'm disappointed. I'm not honestly sure if I would rate this as high as I am if I didn't have such tremendous love for Dollhouse. The art isn't bad, but it doesn't excite me. It's good but not beautiful. Everything interesting in the story stems from the existing Dollhouse universe. Nothing intriguing is added. It doesn't even truly cover much of what happens in the gap between the main series and the Epitaph episodes. It skims over some stuff and simply doesn't address others.Altogether, I woul...

I just finished watching Dollhouse the TV show, and I grabbed the comic book immediately after that. Now, I do think that the show managed to tie a lot of lose ends remarkably well, considering the limited time they had left after the news of cancellation. But it is still nice to have this comic to clear up some of the questions left unanswered. Basically, if you liked Dollhouse — and I did, a lot — you will most likely enjoy this book. It's not required reading, not many important things are re...

This graphic novel collects the Dollhouse 1-shot and issues 1-5 of the Dollhouse series.The story is set after Echo has made it out of the Dollhouse. The technology used to create dolls has been fully weaponized. A signal can be sent over phones to make a person either blank slate doll or a murderous killing machine. Most of the people who become blank slates are killed very quickly by the butchers. Ivy manages to download herself to help some of the lucky few who didn't answer their phones. Alp...