Solid story, but artwork was confusing at times. Occasionally difficult to tell who was who. The flashbacks were sometimes wrenching.

I had the pleasure of discovering this graphic novel thanks to a tumblr post, which noted the delightful intersection of cultures in early 17th-century New Spain (what is now Mexico). This swashbuckling historical tale has a cast that includes a disgraced Japanese samurai, a rogue Jesuit priest from Spain, a runaway Chinese Manchu princess, and a former African slave-turned rebel, and plunges them into the deadly political hive of the period where they must work together. The good news is that t...

The art for the first 3 issues is great, then we have a new artist switched in and the quality goes down.The story is just terrible...( Samurai + Manchu princess in middle of a rebellion of African warriors kept slaves in Mexico...)Stay away from this, even if you find it on sale at 1.99$ on Comixology like I did......

I read this as a political prelude to Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai. In reality there is absolutely no connection except for my fascination with samurai. I enjoyed the story but vastly prefer Stephenson's science fiction books to this graphic novel.

Very interesting. I want more.

"Cimarronin: A Samurai in New Spain" is apparently part of a larger storytelling initiative that links various media platforms together around something called the Foreworld universe. A series of shared, speculative action/adventure stories, the Foreworld universe chronicles the evolution of a mysterious order of European warriors that employ a hybridized fighting style which is rooted in both western and eastern cultures. Got that? If not, that's okay because you don't have to be familiar with

2 1/2 stars. It was okay. Interesting concept. The story could have been more coherent. The two illustrators had different syles and skill levels.

I like a good samurai story, but the thing about samurai stories I've read was that they were insularly set, in the islands of Japan. Cimarronin takes a samurai from its comfort zone and puts him in the middle of a slave revolt in Mexico.Another thing that I liked about this story was that it was set in and around the Spanish colonial empire, another milleu that's close to home and my country's history but woefully unexplored in the books and stories I've read. It's really great to find a writer...

Not into this. It started out strong and I was excited for the world I was about to be thrown in, but it felt like I was reading a montage of a story than the actual story itself. Some panels were too distant from eachother. By that, I mean it was hard to figure how a set of characters and dialogue went from point A to B. The art in the beginning is the best, but transitions into a more rushed style that makes it hard for me to get enveloped in the setting.

A new take on the Japanese samurai warrior. None of it takes place in Japan but in Mexico. The storyline is a little convoluted and outrageous but fun. The wisecracking antihero priest is memorable.

Interesting story about interesting times where many cultures were clashing. Suspect the tie to Foreworld but it hasn't been confirmed yet. Not a huge fan of the art style. Story is incomplete, to be followed up by Fall of the Cross, which is complete novel now. Will check that out, see if the story ends or if there's more.OK, read Fall of the Cross. I thought it was a little hard to track what was going on sometimes due to the art style, but it was a fun story set in an underused time & place.

If the idea is really interesting- a japanese ronin, a spanish jesuit, a manchu princess, embroiled in various schemes in Mexico in 1632, its execution is somewhat disappointing. I'll skip the too modern dialogues for the period, most of them are fun to read. The narration is disjointed though and some flashbacks are poorly dealt with and confusing. The  characters' past is often-unclearly-alluded at with no real substance in the end.As for the final issue it's quite over the top, from the cimar...

I didn't really like this one. The art is fine, but the story jumps around so much that I can't figure out what the heck is going on, and I don't really care about any of the characters. I feel like it isn't well developed and it is missing really important points, but I couldn't tell you what they are, because I just felt like who cares anyway. Not a good graphic novel. Underdeveloped and lacking.

I liked it. It's not quite up to Neal Stephenson's other work (and I admit I'm a fan), but enjoyable enough.

I thought this was a pretty cool book. It tells the story of a fallen samurai who travels to Mexico with a Jesuit priest and a Chinese princess. They each have their own motivations for making this trip, but they end up crossing paths in a very interesting way. As someone who likes history, this was a really strong story. It mixes in just enough of some seemingly disparate elements to give it the feel of something that could have happened.While this isn't a humor book by any means, there are som...

Much like Neal Stephenson's much ballyhooed Kickstarter failure, Clang, the graphic novel Cimarronin is more interested in swordplay than story. That is, the narrative takes a back seat as Stephenson participates in what amounts to another masturbatory exercise in how much he loves pointy objects. Almost nothing in Cimarronin is cooked through to the center, whether its a surprise love interest that occurs at the eleventh hour with no prior warning or an entire page dedicated to discussing the p...

A well written historical fiction graphic novel. The story takes place in the 1600s and span different locations and characters of different cultures who originated from different countries and even different continents! The two main characters of the story is a Japanese outcast samurai (a Ronin) named Kitazume and his acquaintance a Spanish Jesuit priest name Luis. Luis is cunning and doesn’t necessarily tell Kitazume everything while Kitazume isn’t necessarily naïve as a result of years of bei...

Based on just cover art I would rate this pretty highly. I was pretty excited about it despite not knowing anything about it. Too bad the story doesn't hold up as well. It's just kind of meh. I don't know if there was much point to any of it. Probably Neal Stephenson's ode to his love of swords and different fighting styles with said swords. The art was very good though. I liked that a lot. And you could definitely tell there was someone familiar with proper martial arts involved. Most samurai r...

I received the book for free through Goodreads Giveaways.I was really intrigued by the premise of this book: a disgraced samurai and a rogue Jesuit priest smuggle a Manchu princess into Mexico, and a deadly battle ensues. The novel was illustrated by multiple illustrators, and while I enjoyed some of the art-styles I did not enjoy others. There was also a lot of gore, and while that wasn’t a deterrent for me I know that some people do not enjoy that.The novel is a historical, action packed graph...

In seventeenth century Philippines, a disgraced samurai named Kitazume is on the brink of slicing his own stomach open in a hara-kiri ritual. His longtime Spanish priest friend Luis convinces him to stay alive long enough to journey to Mexico with him alongside a Chinese princess named Irgen. The three of them are now embroiled in a plot to prevent Spain and China from obtaining silver and slaves in Mexico knowing how much power it would give the corrupt nations. This struggle for supremacy in t...