Rosemary's Baby contemporised and better still, without the baby.

Milligan has always been interested in sex and identity, but this tale of two warring breeds of ancient shapechanger, who mainly seem to operate through kinky fucking, still feels like a misguided attempt to jump the paranormal romance bandwagon. Like his other recent misfire, New Romancer, the historical figures don't feel quite right (there are some real rookie mistakes in the speech patterns) but the modern protagonist is just about interesting enough to keep my attention - even if her world

In the foreword, Milligan sounds like an earnest teenage boy as he desperately tries to convince the reader that he wasn't writing porn for the sake of porn.Not that there's anything wrong with that!Unfortunately for him, that's a harder sell when your dialogue is composed mostly of phrases like Ugghhh, Guhhhh, & Oooghhh.I'm just saying.He rambles on for a few paragraphs about how sex is usually the end game, but in The Discipline, it's what's used to get to the end game. Ritualistic sex is all

I can see where this book wanted to go. There is a strange kind of eroticism to body horror. Full of tabbo and abjection, and, well. Strange fluids. This isn't that. It tries, though.Despite the fairly thoughtful introduction claiming the opposite, there is still too make of the male gaze skewering the barely clad female protagonist. Plus, the seducers are male, the seduced, the "victim", female.

Approximately, 50 Shades of Promethea. (Click to enlarge any images in this review)I was quite up for this at the beginning – the unfeasibly naïve heroine, the contemporary New York setting, the looming eldritch forces all made me think we were in for a schlocky sexploitation story, like a Dennis Wheatley mash-up. But the build-up was too short, the seduction too implausible, and the proliferation of supernatural monsters too silly. Leandro Fernández's art is good, sometimes great, althoug...

I'm going to say this might be the biggest waste of money I spent in 2016...and it's for 10 bucks. The art is okay at best. That's about the only "decent" thing I can say about this. The plot is moronic. You turn into these creatures based on your sexual acts. They must fight against another clan of evil demons who also are sex fiends called "Stalkers", original right? God, the pacing...this whole thing is a mess. Shit just happens randomly, like people die, fights happen, one second people are

Definitely not your parents' comic books. Supernatural beings battle each other throughout history, using sex to recruit and possess humans. Intriguing artwork gets 4 stars but a choppy storyline getting only 2 for an overall score of 3 stars.

Exploitative, patriarchal trash that fetishizes the demonic. Species meets... Donald Trump's ethics. Hoopla has been recommending this book to me for a long time. I'll assume it has something to do with my reading of Aliens, Sex Criminals, and Saga. This is none of those. This is the worst of 90s "adult" comics "edge" for the 21st Century. It isn't surprising to read the writer's bio and see him described as controversial, and getting his start at Vertigo in the 90s. I like Preacher. I like Spaw...

Pft. Manhattan housewife seduced to be part of "The Discipline", ancient green creatures at war with beast-like creatures called stalkers. Female protagonist is ordered around by men to "be a good housewife" so they can use her husband's wealth, and ordered to kill and seduce on their behalf or else they threaten to recruit her sister. If you have to write an introduction to "justify" all the sexual images, then maybe you know deep-down that the concept isn't that solid? Meh.

Yikes. What the hell was that?

There was a run in this Alien vs Predator-esque story where I thought "I could get into this" but then the appearance of the Swinburne character was a big fat nope. Sex, sex and more sex, which is fine, except it really comes across as violent and misogynistic (i.e. our protagonist Melissa being forced into submission to Swinburne otherwise her sister falls victim to be groomed to take her place). Yup, a big fat HELL NAW.

The art is a bit sloppy at times and the coloring isn't always thorough, so it's a bit hard to tell what you're looking at often. The timeline jumps back and forth so much it's confusing, as not all the time changes are indicated. While I like Melissa, I couldn't give a shit about Orlando and Melissa's feelings for him seem completely unfounded. It all feels very rushed, the 'seduction' raced through much too fast to get at what the authors want to spend most of their time focusing on. As such,

The Discipline is an adults only graphic novel series that seems to have been canceled after one volume. Although the creative team appears to be passionate about the content, an audience for this kind of book would be very hard to find.It's basically about a bored housewife who gets seduced by a stranger. I already find this problematic. Adultery should never be promoted as the way to break a rut. She should have an open and honest discussion with her husband about how she feels unfulfilled ins...

This was just... not good. There's really no getting around it. It popped up as a featured or recommended comic on Hoopla (which doesn't give ratings and reviews, so I had no warning), so I thought I'd give it a try. Wasted a credit on this disjointed, schlocky mess that masquerades as an intelligent, edgy, artful exploration of all these THEMES that are really just barely-existent veneers for bad sex. Blah.

4th book read in 2018.Number 502 out of 664 on my all time book list.It is a poorly made version for the Underworld film series with sex thrown in to distract you.

The Discipline is the first comic I've read of Peter Milligan and I have to say it isn't very good. The premise of the book is interesting (I'd call it 50 Shades of Gray meets the Alien movies), however the execution falls flat. In the book we're introduced to Melissa who is put through trails by a mysterious man named Orlando to become part of a group called The Discipline. The Discipline are currently at war with a group of beast like creatures called Stalkers. These stalkers take over peoples...

The story telling was choppy and the world concept was too confusingly presented to be all that interesting. I am only giving it two stars because I did read the whole volume, thinking it might get better. It didn't. If anything it got worse. Also, it's not a good sign when within a few pages it is obvious this was written by a man.

The Good: I liked Fernandez's art.The Bad: I don't even know where to start. For a book about sex, this was one of the least "sexy" things I've ever read. I was pretty much skeeved out the whole time. Milligan's focus on rough sex and domination of others left me cringing. There's no real story here, just there's 2 different kinds of monsters that are fighting and use sex as a weapon. Nothing is explained. It sure didn't feel like a 30 year veteran of comic book writing wrote this garbage.The Ug...

I like sex and monsters and horror in things I read. But I like them well-executed. This was an indefinable mash poorly paced, plotted in a mediocre manner, with meh characters, and incomprehensible action. I went in a positive audience, but I was less than impressed.

I don’t have a problem with stories that are taboo, but The Discipline is little more than poorly written Occultist porn. It’s not an ugly book, but the art isn’t going to win any awards either. There’s some stuff that probably make the average reader pretty uncomfortable too. I won’t get into too much detail but it has to deal with historical figures and feces. Also, they use the term “Sex Death” at least three times. So, even if this type of stuff was your thing, I’m sure you can find better e...