The writing, artwork, and canon felt a little hodge-podge here but I appreciated one or two of the smaller and more personal stories. (e-galley from Edelweiss)

The stories about Booker et Andy made me cry a little. I loved to learn more about the immortal family's past!

I have a fundamental problem with this series - the fact that the main characters are immortal isn't interesting enough, and combining it with violence is the least interesting avenue to explore. Bending it towards loved ones aging out and dying, is better, but you can't keep repeating it.And so we come to this anthology of 12 short stories, 2 of them written by Rucka, the rest by a bevvy of writers. Two stories are drawn by the original artist, Leandro Fernandez, every other story by another ar...

actual rating: 3.5I agree with some other reviewers that there is in fact nothing 'shocking' here but I did think it was a pretty enjoyable read and overall a very standard anthology volume. Obviously this book is not really going to be moving the current storyline forward since it's a series of flashback stories but if you like the characters and their interactions I think there is plenty of enjoyable new content here. If you're just a die-hard 'every single piece of this story has to concretel...

This is a collection of shorts, and as with any compilation, the quality varies. There are a couple very good ones - Jason Aaron & Rafael Albequerque's story manages to be pretty funny and fun, while "Zanzibar and Other Harbors" pushes the LGBTQ perspective very effectively, with a memorable story. None of the stories are weak, and a couple do add some dimension to the characters - 'My Mother's Axe' and 'How to Make a Ghost Town' both give Andy lots to do, for example. The art is good to great,

I loved these little snippets and honestly just wanted more. The Nicky and Joe in Germany story was my favourite.

I really enjoyed this book. It contains twelve medium to short stories. Every story is excellent. It complements the main books brilliantly. They add insights snd gives a look at each of the main characters.This is a must have for any fan of the Old Guard. Showing more of the main characters personalities, their pleasures and pain of imortality. The book finishes with a cover gallery of full page of all the issue covers and the one of each varient covers.

Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernández invite twenty-one other writers and artists to play with the toys in their Old Guard sandbox, and everyone does a pretty good job of it. I think the better stories were in the front half of the book, but there were no awful ones. My only complaints might be that there is too much Booker and too little Nicky and Joe. And there is little effort to introduce the characters, so anyone who hasn't read the other two graphic novels or at least seen the movie will probab...

While we still are in the long wait for the final volume of The Old Guard, Greg Rucka whets our palate a little with this compilation of stories by a great group of writers and artists and feature all of the Old Guard in small stories throughout history. It proves that there is so much material that can be mined from such a cool concept. There are countless stories that I would love to read with the Old Guard and many eras that I would love to see explored. Most of the stories are good but three...

Ehhhhh. I'm basically happy to throw money at the franchise because I love the movie, can't wait for the second one, and want to support the creator of the original medium but. Most of these are deeply blah and phoned in. Most of the guest art isn't any better than the (no good, bad, terrible, cliched, frequently offensive) original art by Fernandez (which still features in two of these). There were only two artists whose work I liked (Jacopo Camgani in the Zanzibar story and NIcola Scott's in M...

The characters of the hit series (and Netflix show) The Old Guard return in The Old Guard: Tales Through Time Vol. 1. If short stories and vignettes are your thing, then you're absolutely going to love this collection. Here's the backstory necessary to appreciate these tales: the characters in the Old Guard don't die. Technically, there may come a day where they stop getting back up, but the simple truth is that they never know when that moment might happen. They walk the earth for centuries, d

As the preamble to each issue points out, between them these immortal-ish soldiers have 10,000 years of history, so why not invite in various creative teams to offer vignettes from those vast and violent pasts? Series creators Rucka and Fernandez kick it off with a story about Andy's instantly recognisable axe. Which...well, neither of them is British, so I guess maybe they still think of this paradox as the respectable, mythic Ship of Theseus. Whereas to a UK reader, the inevitable response is

The Old Guard: Tales Through Time collection features a series of stories that expand upon series creator Greg Rucka's universe. The list of writers and artists on the individual stories is impressive.The stories range all over the characters long lifetimes so that you learn more about each of them and what they were up to at any given time.I found both the stories and artwork to be top notch. While I might've liked some stories more than others, they were all pretty darn good.The opportunity to...

repetitive and pointless but i love the characters enough to see it all through.

Let's btranslate the blurb, shall we?an all-star lineup of guest creators, expanding the world of the immortal warriors in shocking ways! Meet the immortals' families, witness never-before-seen adventures, and discover the first appearance of a major new character!an all-star lineup of guest creators - "I couldn't be bothered to write any more stories myself"expanding the world of the immortal warriors - That's what new book should ALWAYS do, right? in shocking ways! - No shocks to be found.Meet...

All anthologies are destined to be mixed bags, and I think there are some very valid criticisms of this one, especially the fact that a lot of the stories repeated the same plotline with the same 'twist' - the Old Guard don't die! shock! - but overall it was interesting and enjoyable.Standouts:- "Many Happy Returns" was a refreshingly nonviolent and genuinely sweet little adventure.- "How to Make a Ghost Town" hit on notable themes and is an interesting insight into Andy's character.- "The Bear"...

Twelve pieces of nothing. I mean, I've never seen a page of the two graphic novels this collection of shorts spins off from, but I can clearly see from this evidence why people cry foul at the bad idea of making immortal warriors so damned immortal, and so damned, well, boring. Not even the N-bomb and some nuns' tits can wake this lot up.

I knew going in this was not a continuation of the main storyline. That it instead is a collection of stories from across time involving various members of the guard. Some stories were wonderful. Really loved Rucka and Fernandez’s stories. Also the one by Matt Fraction (but I will always have a soft spot for anything from the creator of the Hawkeye 2012 run.)Some were ok, and a few were just boring to me. I struggled to identify Booker/Nicky in a lot of them as the art style would change with ev...

Like most short story collections this is a mixed bag, and they are all very short. Generally enjoyable side-notes to the other volumes though, with some interesting little details. The downside to having different artists as well as writers contribute though, is that sometimes the characters are drawn quite differently and - for me at least - it could be quite difficult to immediately tell who was who (especially Booker and Nicky, I sometimes had to read a bit of the story before I could deciph...

On the whole, pretty boring, really.