I just read for some nostalgia, but it did not work in 2020.Our paranoias are way more strong now.

An unnecessary yet not entirely unsuccessful attempt to follow up the classic '60s TV series, updated to the end of the Cold War, Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer and the surveillance state, and cynically tying off loose ends while cleverly rendering The Village in new light as an abandoned ruin. Technically, the art is sketchy and for the most part poorly coloured, and the lettering is unpleasant.(Read as single issues.)

Fascinating, if inessential, extension/repetition of the wonderful original series. Patrick McGoohan reportedly didn't hate it. Just skip the garbage text prologue/recap that was added for the collection.

Once a decade or so, I come back to this book and hope it'll somehow be better than it is. The Prisoner is The Best TV Show Ever.For half its length, Shattered Visage makes a game effort - some subterfuge, some philosophizing about the nature of freedom - but 0utside of the first conversation between the protagonist and Number Six on the nature of their freedoms, does it ever really say anything? Motter and Askwith borrow from the show's dialogue liberally, but it reads more like they just want

Meh

Not as bad as some reviews make out, this sequel is affectionately done. The art is basic but Number Six retains his pithy dialogue and it pays tribute to the iconic scenery of Portmeirion. Sadly the first half is much stronger and the second is hastily concluded.

A Quick and Tense ComicThe Prisoner is a sequel comic to a 60’s British television show of the same name. I would imagine that the comic makes more sense if you watched the show. I, however, didn’t know that this was a sequel until I read the Author’s note at the end of the book. I read this as a standalone story, and I enjoyed it enough that way. I would imagine it is similar to watching a show like Watchmen without having ever read the original comic. The context helps a lot, but it’s a fine s...

Bleak and interesting continuation of that oh so bizarre series.

Supposed to be a sequel of the brilliant late 60's TV show, this book doesn't live up to its model.I'd read it already more than to decades ago and didn't like it much. My hopes of a better opinion so many years later just crashed.Cryptic spy-vs-spy plot with huge holes (why in hell did number 6 spend 20 years in an abandoned Village and why did number 2 did the same in prison? And why let him publish a book on the Village? Etc.), totally bland characters you don't care for and let's face it, vi...

Collects The Prisoner: Shattered Visage issues #1-4 (This was a DC Comics miniseries that came out between 1988 and 1989, even though this collection is put out by Titan Comics.)This is considered an official sequel to the television series, and features some recognizable characters. Final rating = 3.5 stars

The Prisoner: Shattered Visage is a 1988 comic book sequel to the 1967-1968 British TV series The Prisoner. I was first exposed to The Prisoner in the 1980s, and the show then still seemed not only ahead of its time, but ahead of our time. I recently watched the whole original series and found that it now seems very dated. I understand why it has devoted fans, and I enjoyed elements of it, but I don't think it holds up. To the extent that it touched on important themes, it really failed to go th...

This is a story of two halves. Unfortunately for the reader, the latter half is the weaker of the two. The first two chapters are brilliant as you are introduced to the new characters and the premise of the tale. This got me hooked. I loved the direction I thought Dean Motter was taking us in... then the third chapter starts to lose cohesion and gets messy.Though the original TV series was abstract at times and could be confusing, the direction gave it a charm and a particular feel that kept the...

I just finished watching the tv series and although I loved it, the final episode was a mess.This story picks up the threads of the last episode twenty years later and tied them together.I’ve never studied a comic more closely than this before, every panel has a clue or Easter egg from the original show.

I dug out my old, original issues of this comic after just having re-watched the entire series for the first time in over a decade, so if the collected version I'm posting this under has been changed (did they maybe color it better or clean up the art a little?) I'll never know.This is an official, comic book sequel to the amazing, influential, much-loved original television series from the 60's THE PRISONER. All rights have been retained for all likenesses and imagery (except for the estate of

The Existence of this comic is kind of pointless. Obviously, one does not want to make the original series clearer. And this comic doesn't. In the same time the plot of this book is not really ever surrealist like the ones of the show were at times. Actually, it's pretty straight up, a female Agent from the same agency as Number 6 resign and go for a trip around the world and than cast away at the village, meanwhile her husband, also an agent tries to find the secrets of the village. We didn't r...

Hmmm... Like the cult television show this is a graphic novel that needs to season in the mind a bit. There is a lot going on here, on different levels, and I think one needs to ruminate and perhaps re-read once or twice to appreciate all the ingredients to this story fully. Yep, number 6 is in it. Both of them. Yep, the village is there, sort of. Yep, there is at least one nuclear missile launch, but what it accomplishes is a little vague. I could go on. I will say that the authors did their ho...

Twenty years after it ended, the classic 1960s TV series The Prisoner got what is perhaps the closest thing it will ever get to a proper, authorized sequel. It got in the form of Shattered Visage, a graphic novel that collected the four part comic book mini-series published by DC Comics, signed off on by not just the company that owns the series (ITC) but by Patrick McGoohan himself. But given the reputation of the original TV series, how well does Shattered Visage hold up? Shattered Visage is a...

This is a sequel to the sixties TV show The Prisoner, and as such it has two potential audiences: those who know the series, and those who don't. For those who know the series: this is okay. It gives one a chance to visit again, and doesn't particularly ruin anything (though some will dislike its interpretation of the final episodes). I like Motter's art, and enjoyed the long visual sequences with no dialogue. For those who don't know the series: don't bother. This will make no sense.

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Set twenty years after the final episode of the television series, Shattered Visage follows former secret agent Alice Drake as she is shipwrecked on the shores of the Village and encounters an aged, psychologically scarred Number Six. While the decades-old conflict unfolds between Six and Number Two (as played by Leo McKern in the TV series), secret agents in London have their own plans regarding the intelligence mine that is The Village, as well as the secret lying at its very core.The authoriz...