Over the last couple decades it has been a popular ploy in fiction to attempt the creation of a single story through the use of a multitude of narrative points. Novels will set forth what seem like a number of unrelated short stories that—only when all finished and seen from the outside—combine to form a single narrative thread. Numerous protagonists will weave in and out of story focus, each propelling the fictive direction according to their own story needs but all the while vectoring the stor...

This book is like a cross between Pulp Fiction and a world war spy movie. The book starts at the end and is then chopped up into different scenes so you would be forgiven becoming easily confused when reading the storyline. I'm a bit biased because I recently fell deeply in love with Matt Kindt's Mind MGMT. The artwork, there's something about it. I can understand that it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea and if you asked me to pick this up or Mind MGMT 3 or 4 years ago then I would probably hav...

I love Matt Kindt's work: his art, his ambitious storytelling, the way he complicates things, challenges us. Here he interweaves several narrative threads that link together in various interesting ways. Some of it was a little confusing as I sometimes mixed up characters as they looked similar, but this tale of WWII espionage is really cool. I think it is unfortunately titled, since it is made to look like a children's book, with a kid book title, but it is not that, really. Maybe the art here m...

Far superior to the first collection, with better stories and stronger art.

Really enjoyed this book. Hard to follow at times - given the sometimes confusing art and lack of named characters. But I think by rereading it I might enjoy it even more the second time.

Really liked this one, a series of interconnected snippets that are messy and chaotic like how life often is. Matt Kindt weaves the stories in and out of each other masterfully and I loved the humanity of the ending.

I reread this after reading 2 Sisters since they're loosely related. Once again, Matt Kindt nails it.The book features 36 separate small stories of various spies during WWII, and each one is unique. Not just in story, but in presentation. Kindt's strength is in design, constantly changing the way he uses the medium to shape each story. Some are told on a typical panel grid, others in prose; some black and white, some in full color; sometimes the format is changed completely and the story is told...

Completely engrossing and very VERY interesting. This graphic novel deals with spies in WWII. And though it may not be clear within the first few stories, it becomes apparent that they're all interlinked. On the whole, I'm not much of a non-linear novel reader, however, what Kindt does is brilliant for people like me. He gives you the option to choose. You can both read it in the order it's presented (doubly intriguing and jumbled up) OR read it in in order of dossier (my brain likes this one mo...

The spy business is not flashy at all, but the risk-taking isn't made for just anyone. Their world is so secretive that a dying spy makes less noise than a falling leaf. It's all about seeming regular, never drawing attention, because anything can give you away especially in times of war. The means by which they communicate with their handlers is extremely inventive and near impossible to detect. Counter-intelligence officers are the only ones with training to see through these hidden encrypting...

Each short story stands in its own as a compelling entry to the body of soy fiction. But where this book is genius is in how Kindt connects the stories to each other in multiple ways--and the real reward goes to the reader who is willing to go back and put all the pieces together to get the whole story. For more of my thoughts on Kindt, see my review of 3 Story.

This is a collection of short stories about spies in World War II, interconnected but in no particular order. In theory, they could be read sequentially by using the dossier numbers, but with the ebook version, I found this impractical.It is, nevertheless, perfectly possible, after a few stories, to start to see the connections among them. Taking place in Spain, France, Germany, Britain, and Russia, we see the terror, price, loves, and mistakes of the spies. I won't say there's not room to be co...

First, Kindt's artwork is stunning and Super Spy would be worth reading for the art alone. Luckily, the story is intriguing and told masterfully. I nearly gave this five stars, and if I reread it (which I want to already) I might.Super Spy is set in World War II, late in the war and mostly in Europe, and explores espionage and the relationships of and between a collection of spies. A series of smaller, interconnected stories are presented deliberately non-linear, forcing the reader to become som...

Another graphic novel I wish had been something a little different. The artwork is fine, but I'm beginning to realize I have difficulty discerning characters in graphic novels if they look even remotely similar.I was expecting this to be a bit more Nancy Drew (I mean, look at that cover!) but it turned out to be more espionage than that. Considering it's not what I expected, I found my interest waning, even though spies and espionage are generally fun to read.But I branched out for a reason, and...

What strikes me most is how this GN manages to do what the very best spy novels do, which is to disorient the reader in complex and satisfying ways, and catch at the questions at the heart(?) of spying - who am I? I agree w/ reviewer who states this works best as a single-sitting read.

GN about spies in WWII. This really focused on the personal lives of people who were working for the various governments. It was a bit hard to follow for me (but I tend to struggle with graphic novels a bit-characters should wear nametags!), but I still really loved all the parts I caught. The story ended with how the end of the war affected the spies, including one lady who was ostracized by her community for having slept with German soldiers, not being able to share that she had been reporting...

I wanted to like this more than I really did. Of course, that may have to do with the fact that I read it after I was supposed to be sleeping when I was sick and stressed. But I couldn't quite make out a lot of the illustrations. I love the idea - weaving various stories of espionage from WWII into one long narrative that connects. But I couldn't make out some of the pictures and thus lost out on some of the story. Also, many of the characters looked the same - which I'm sure is appropriate for

Like its namesake, Super Spy is a brilliant work of underappreciated genius that has been hiding in plain sight. How has this book flown so completely under my radar for so long?What begins as a fun WWII-era spy yarn rapidly grows into an unbelievably complex story of people eking out precarious lives as spies in the midst of wartime. Trauma, desperation, distrust, violence, and horror are these characters’ starting points. From there, espionage becomes a means of ugly survival and coarse necess...

This follow-up to 2 Sisters is just as intriguing and thoughtful, but perhaps with a more disjoint narrative than the prior book. It may just be a manner of opinion, admittedly, as 2 Sisters also had a non-linear narrative flow but focused on fewer character threads. Super Spy turns up the espionage dial a few notches and presents us (initially) with discrete stories of different sorts of spies only for the interconnections between some of the threads revealed much later in the book.The contrast...

Fantastic graphic novel (emphasis on novel) full of deception, paranoia, and heartbreak. The characters all interact with each other beautifully and the way the story lines weave between each other is very satisfying. Only complaint is that the characters can sometimes be hard to identify due to the art style, but hey, that might be the point.

This book takes the structure from A Visit from the Goon Squad, and mashes it up with the golden age of spying. I love the intersected nature of all the stories, and I especially love how the focus is on the spies lives, rather than the question of good and evil during the Nazi regime.