WildCertainly a more violent and grittier story than the movies. Darker. But 100% fun anyways. let sleeping dragons lie. Or they paint the town red.

Quite enjoyed the movie, and as a result tried the graphic novel (maybe that was my mistake - the movie caused some preconceptions in my head). Was to say the least quite dissapointed. Firstly, it appeared to be a slightly thinner than normal graphic novel, but not too bad. Until i found that the actual graphic novel was less than half the content of the book! Storyboard sketches etc made up most of the book! What ended up in the movie, was pretty much "inspired" by the book, but if a direct com...

Paul Moses, a former 'wet boy' (assassin-agent for the CIA), has been retired for years and is living a quiet life on a country estate. Beesley, the agency's latest bureaucrat director, decides Moses is too dangerous to be walking the earth and orders his immediate death -- that was the first mistake. A competent but inexperienced young team is sent to do the job -- that was the next mistake. Beesley thinks his headquarters will be impenetrable if guarded by a heavily armed force -- that was the...

Nice to see when a short little story gets done by a writer who isn't going to compromise or flinch. Too many would take this story and do what Hollywood did to it (in fact, so different to the book, there's no humour in Paul Moses at all, there's no sidekicks, just one pissed off man.)The art is brutal, in a good way, just strong colours, red obviously being the base, and a lot of bullet motion, heads snapping back, and angry man face.Also nice that Ellis didn't take an idea and try to stretch

Okay I will admit that I was led to this from the two films which I thoroughly enjoyed. I sort of knew they were taken from a comic book I just didn't know much more than that.Well now I dofirst of all it was a limited run so it is quite interesting to see two films and a suggested TV series coming off the back of such little source material.The second fact was that it was from the pen of Warren Ellis who I seemed to have been inadvertently following recently. Honest I was not planning it that w...

I liked this very much. Only complaint? It was too short. Different from the movie as this story was only about Frank. The movie did incorporate elements from this story and expanded on those elements. This Frank is a stone killer, but like the movie version, he JUST wanted to be left alone. I would have loved to have seen this 3 part story arc extended to five or six parts. It was really pretty straight to the point. So do not expect the movie version of Frank, but this is the story that laid t...

Not what I was expecting I'll admit, but come on?! Where was Helen in the ball gown with the machine gun?? I guess I was just expecting the movie that I saw to be a bit more in line with this since this is the original story....I know, I know what the hell was I thinking. Since when are movies all that faithful to their books?The story focuses only on Paul Moses - no geriatric sidekicks for him this time round - as he is sucked from his retirement when the CIA suddenly wants their golden boy

RED is a short story comic about a retired agent. I'd read the book before the movie and it was a great and fun little thing.Don't, however, go in with the movie in mind. You will be sorely disappointed and unable to appreciate the simple elegance.

Fleshed out, it could achieve greatness. However, what we get is a 70 page splatter fest of a wholly unlikeable old guy killing mostly-innocent people for the mere fact that they kinda made him angry. Thank god it seems the movie is adding a cast of diverse characters, and Bruce Willis seems to be bringing comedy into it. Because this was way too serious and way too short to be anything enjoyable. If a 90 minute movie can pull off a solid action movie out of this material, I think congratulation...

Nuts! Langley's closet skeleton opened a can of whup-ass on them. Or maybe Pandora's Box is more apt.

A retired CIA operative called Paul Moses is suddenly being targeted by a new CIA director for the things he did in his past. He suddenly finds himself fending off assassins as he goes from retired (Green) to active (Red). The fantastic Warren Ellis does a tremendous job of writing an enthralling revenge tale. Moses shows that despite being old that he is far from useless as he kills his way to the top to take down the CIA Director who ordered his retirement be called off. It's a very short read...

I came to Red the graphic novel via Red the movie. Red the graphic novel is an okay, rather pedestrian book about a man who wanted to retire from his life as a government agent but gets violently pulled back in. I can't believe someone wanted to make a movie out of it--especially because the movie is so different from the book, and SO MUCH BETTER. The movie is on my short list of underrated gems. I love the characters. I love the story. I love the action. And it's so very funny. Every single cha...

So much more satisfying than the Bruce Willis motion picture franchise. Here, retired, extremely dangerous Paul Moses has nothing of Bruce Willis' amiable good nature; he has instead a palpable regret thinly layered over a cold implacability. An excellent character study on several levels.

A quick bish bash bosh of a read. Quick and dirty and full of violence.

Short, violent and to the point. Not much character development and what story there is serves only to move the action along, nothing more. For those looking to expand on their movie experience, move along, there's nothing to see here. In fact, it was the movie which expanded on the book, which only focuses on the tale of Paul Moses and his reactivation to the world of assassination. Other than that, the layout is crisp and focused, and the animation is vivid and well-done. I would say not much

A dick sandwich. Avoid. You get about $3.00 worth of ideas and stories in this piece 'o shit GN, but you have to pay $15 for it. Avoid. Avoid. Avoid. I strongly advise all potential purchasers to spend their hard-earned money on something else. This is not a worthwhile read, and the art is far below expectations.

I've never seen the movie (and I don't intend to), but this comic is very cool. Violent, gritty revenge tale. A very short read. Nice artwork. You should probably read it.

Just a blast to read. A short, sharp, focused little tale that takes its premise directly to its logical conclusion. Glad this was there for the movie to leapfrog off, but more serious than the movie by far.

I am such a fan of the movies..During the end of scenes, you would see flashes of comic pages which added a cool layer to a fun movie. When I found it through my library, I was just over the moon! There are differences..Like its Paul Moses instead of Frank. The thrumbsucker in question who tagged him was the new Director rather than some cube drone. This work centers around the first oh, 20 mins of the film...minus MLP. Moses got the kill squad sent to "retire" him. Then he goes to DC to find ou...

Judging by thickness of the book, I thought there might be more story than there ended up being (74 pages, the rest sketches and the script). While the plot was decent, it seemed more like a prelude than a finished story. Though it had a beginning and middle, there was no end, just another beginning. I would have liked more. The artwork serves the story well and I had no trouble following the layout, though it is the color schemes that stood out to me. They were fantastic. From the subdued blues...