Think Jim Steranko's Nick Fury drawn by Frank Miller. This thing oozes fake machismo. The Black Kaiser is an unstoppable killing machine and the women are only there to appear in lingerie and have sex to distract from assassins. It's a very quick read as there is very little dialogue. I thought the landscape layout swere interesting, especially digitally.

Enjoyed this thriller!I liked the Netflix version of Polar. Which LED me to this story. Tough to kill this senior citizen! Loved the art and the characters. Looking for more Polar stories.☺

Striking art! Amazed at how much can be conveyed with this style and layout. Hoping that volumes 2 and 3 provide more depth to the story. It seems volume 1 is the introduction. 5 stars for art, 3.5 for story.

In the Frank Miller style (no offense) and fun.

Unstoppable spy/hitman/bounty hunter/doesn’t matter takes on generic international baddies syndicate because action! Lots of guns, lots of dead goons, a whole lotta nuthin’ - this is Polar: The Spy Who Bored Me! Victor Santos’ Polar is the most derivative comic I’ve read in a while. About the only thing that held my interest was noting Victor Santos’ very obvious influences. The art style ranged from Frank Miller’s Sin City to Eduardo Risso’s 100 Bullets to Michael Avon Oeming. There’s very litt...

Mostly silent spy-thriller with art reminiscent of Frank Miller's Sin City. It's mostly black and white except for splashes of red when blood spills or lipstick has been applied. Very stylish, but sometimes hard to follow due to the abstract nature of some panels. Worth a look for fans of action, just don't expect to spend much time reading.

It's what the bastard love child of Frank Miller and Genndy Tartakovsky would look like. Simple yet satisfying spy tale filled with all the sex and violence a guy like me could hope for. The Black Kaiser is an old school spy being hunted by a variety of lethal "Bond" type villains that still manages to make time to knock boots with a couple a tramps between dodging bullets. Really a stunning piece of work. Victor's page layouts are outstanding. Buy this one for the black, white, and red artwor

I read it completely out of curiosity because Netflix is releasing a movie based on this... The reader is immediately drawn into the action. no premises, no introductions, the story will suck you in. The visceral images and art will keep you glued to the pages until you turn the last page and you’re immediately ready to dive into the second volume of the series.

I'm not sure what I'm going to rate this yet. I liked it, quite a bit actually, but it was missing something that couldn't make it completely thrill me. The art is superb and what I liked the most. It is abstract in many ways with lots of angles but also contains some detailed drawings. Red is used for a purpose. Some pages are covered in red, others may have a tiny splotch such as a drop of blood or a woman's high heels. Red is used for different reasons such as: sex, blood, violence, anger, em...

If Miller's Sin City had a stylish baby with an Old Man Logan graphic novel... well, not sure how that would work, but I like to think it would turn out like this book. There are a lot of cool things (we get some nice snowy landscapes, and even one of those badass corridor fight scenes *Oldboy flashbacks* filled with a striking "Pollock-ish" blood everywhere). I must say the visual style and lack of dialogue make it a bit confusing to follow sometimes (luckily for the sleepy readers, the protago...

An enjoyable and straightforward forward tale told with searing artwork. A book to be held and read several times in a row. I will definitely pick up the next two in the series and may give the film a shot.For my full review: https://paulspicks.blog/2019/04/26/po...For all my reviews: https://paulspicks.blog

An old assassin tries to retire and a mysterious groups want to kill him. But they cannot, because old assassins cannot be killed, just bloodied. Also, old assassins get to have sex with any women they meet so long as the women are 1/2 their age or less, which they all are. Old assassins also visit people they know from their old life and those people get sweaty after the old assassin shows up and most of the time wind up dead shortly there after. The old assassin doesn't say much, but what he d...

Entertaining use of red, black, and white, with red becoming blood through many panels of this violent artwork. I enjoyed the drawing of the highly stylized older secret agent. The story was pretty basic.

While this features some decent (if derivative) artwork -- kind of a cross between Frank Miller and Darwyn Cooke -- and kinetic action scenes, it never manages to transcend the half-baked tough guy dialogue, the strained attempts at coolness, or the rampant misogyny that permeates nearly every page featuring a female character. Worth a look just for the art, but ultimately forgettable.

Polar: Came From The Cold jumps right into the action and doesn't let up until the very end. In an unusual form factor for a graphic novel, the stark images leap off the page. It's a visceral and satisfying read.An older man and a woman are in a snowbound cabin as assassins creep up on him. We learn that he is a former agent known as Black Kaiser. We also learn pretty early on that he is not easy to kill. But his former employers at the Damocles Agency are determined and relentless. Black Kaiser...

Pretty bad. The artwork is a ripoff of Eduardo Risso and Frank Miller and the best that can be said for it is that it's largely incoherent. Don't know what prompted someone to want to turn this into a movie (with Mads Mikkelsen as the Black Kaiser), even if it is a Netflix original.**Update 1/29**Watched the movie over the weekend and it, too, is amazingly bad. This is one of the strangest "comic adapted to a movie" combos I've ever come across...

"It'll kill your inner demons." Dull. I think the artist chose style over substance as there is very little dialogue, and the art just seemed like a poor knock-off/try hard of Frank Millers Sin City, I read this off of the back of the Netflix movie...I wont be reading anymore...1 🌟

Haven’t read Sin City or Darwyn Cooke’s Parker? Read those and then come to this only if you’re really fiending for a three color genre tale. And you may still not like it.

You can find my review on my blog by clicking here.The mere thought of being involved in an organization where you’re sworn to secrecy can be quite scary today when you know that there are people out there that have done things against their own will that wouldn’t exactly fall within the parameters of the law. To even escape such commitments seems just as impossible as the risks are too high for an organization to let you leave with valuable knowledge. However, if you have a particular set of sk...

The Black Kaiser is an invincible hit man who somebody wants dead. That is about as deep as he story ever gets, and the artwork, when it is not openly referencing Frank Miller’s Sin City or Eduardo Risso’s 100 Bullets, is too weirdly composed to actually make sense of. There is something good buried in here, but you really have to look for it.