If this were a movie, it'd probably be one of my favorites. It's hard to describe this book without giving away too much. I'll just leave it at saying that a guy wakes up and groggily goes to work - all around him are signs of apocalyptic collapse, but he doesn't even notice until he's all the way at the skyscraper of his employ. I dug the themes he was playing with, the elements from some of my favorite stories, some of my favorite science-fiction concepts. Honestly, though, I never really conn...

Loved the way this was set up. A guy in a job he hates with a boss he hates has a dream that Seattle is hit by a dirty bomb. In the dream he rescues the loathed boss from the wreckage. They then begin an adventure - which continues each night. By day his life is just as humdrum, the boss is a bitch and his girlfriend is driving him barmy by wittering on about dining sets. What I really liked about this was the unfolding of the two stories. With a double narrative like this, it's easy to get bogg...

Loved the first half, but that second half...So what happens when you begin to have two different lives. One is your real world where you're at a dead end job, with a girl you probably don't love, sitting around waiting to go to sleep. Then when you do sleep you're in a world of panic, on the road, fucking your old boss, and killing people just to survive. Sam, the main character, is a interesting character that seems to have his mental stability begin to break. What's real? What's fake? He's st...

I want to take the room down a minute (I've always wanted to say that. Blammo!) and talk to the people who don't like to read graphic novels, but are curious enough to look at a review of one: I was just like you. I loved comics as a kid but I grew up and graphic novels became big and I just wasn't biting. To the point where normally if I liked a movie and heard it was based on a book, then I'd seek out the book. But if it was based on a graphic novel, I wouldn't be interested in reading further...

I had the same feeling reading Revolver as I did watching Momento and Inception. While this story is nothing like those two films, it has the same elements that make you wonder where all these events are headed. Every other day Sam wakes up in either his normal world or a world where a series of planned terrorist attacks have destroyed the US infrastructure. Sam struggles to cope with different aspects of each world in a search to understand why this is happening to him. There are a ton of alter...

Rereads aren’t usually my forte, so why am I here? Was it the Vertigo imprint which has bequeathed us classics such as Preacher or 100 Bullets? Unlike the blood splattered ultra-violence that typically characterizes its catalogue, Revolver employs a sparse application of carnage. So it wasn’t that. Was it the eye-alluring deployment of light blues and sand-like beiges? This simplistic yet effective palette redolent of sweet wafts of nectarine nostalgia is surprisingly ensconced first and saturat...

This was an okay read. Overall, I was disappointed in the story here because there's a lot that could have been done with the premise of finding yourself living in two worlds--one being your normal boring life, and the other a post-apocolyptic version of the real world you visit while you sleep. An interesting side effect is that facts learned in one world apply to the other, like finding out your boss' dirty secret or an abandoned boat seen while driving over the bridge during a road trip becom...

The Catch of the book is fantastic, and I loved where the author took it. Very creative.On the other hand, the author chose a lazy, privileged, 20/30-something white guy who squanders the great things that fall into his lap (without any effort or merit on his part) as the "hero" of the story, who grows through adversity (kind of) (well, arguably) (well, maybe not really), and I am just a *little* bit tired of such characters as the protagonist. Seriously, it is ok to have your characters be lose...

Remember Fight Club. This is a little bit like that. Though less nihilistic. And less likely to inspire bozos into being bigger bozos. I feel like it’s really difficult to reveal any part of the story without revealing too much. You’ll just have to trust me when I say it’s really good. Matt Kindt did do the art in addition to the writing in this one.

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but Matt Kindt’s Revolver still finds a way to make his post-apocalyptic world (and this graphic novel) feel incomplete. Sam lives a day in the normal world, then the next (same) day in an alternate world that has been bombed out. The people he knows in each are different, and in time, he’ll have to choose between the two. It should be an obvious pick—you know, the not post-apocalyptic one—but a world of desperation makes Sam realize just how superficial

I don’t understand the appeal some writers/readers find in completely unlikable douchebag protagonists. This is not a rant against the “antihero” (Johannes Cabal is a perfect example), characters who I usually love, but rather the “everyday hero” dude character who is lazy, boring, rude, unappreciative, and shallow. We’re supposed to like, relate to him or something. Excuse me, I mean guys are supposed to relate to him. Us poor females, I guess we’re all supposed to see in him that ~mysterious~

Revolver is a graphic novel originally released under the Vertigo imprint written and drawn by Matt Kindt. Sam hates his life. He has a crappy job editing celebrity photos, his boss despise him, he is a mundane relationship, and cannot find any joy in his home life. The next day Sam wakes up in a world where major US cities have been bombed, the avian flu has been become a world wide pandemic, the economy crashes, and the communication grid is shut down. Sam finds this new world dangerously exci...

AHH THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD I READ IT IN A SITTING. A man wakes up in an apocalyptic wasteland, then goes back to regular life, alternating every time the clock strikes 11:11. That's all you need to know. Go read this!

I wasn't quite sure what to make of this one for awhile but I ended up really liking it.

Sci fi? Philosophical? Guy lives in two horrible worlds, one is boring with his materialistic girlfriend and a job he hates, then every other day he lives (is this a dream? is he going crazy?) in an apocalyptic societal free fall where his very survival is at stake.. Both horrible options.... I can't talk about it much without spoilers, but I liked this, enjoyed it... Yes, he and his girlfriend and boss are annoying, as some/many of the reviews complain, but that is kinda the point, seems to me,...

You will really only like this story if you enjoy Kindt's style of art. And I know that it isn't for everyone. It isn't clean or overly detailed, but is rough and looks hurried. It's a simple style that I like. Colorization is also nice, most panels are depicted in 4 colors. The story is well done and interesting as well.

This book reminded me a lot of the short lived TV show "Awake" which came after "Revolver" and clearly stole the same concept from it. Guy goes to sleep in one world and wakes up in another. In one world, he's an apathetic photo editor who's life is pretty good. He has a great girlfriend he doesn't deserve, an easy job he doesn't deserve and is too lazy to actually perform well, and is just drifting through life. Very "Fight Club." In the other world, there have been nuclear attacks on the U.S.

Sam is stuck in a crappy job editing celebrity photos for a Chicago newspaper with a materialistic girlfriend. He goes to sleep at 11:11 after a night of drinking and wakes up to find the city being bombed. the avian flu has become a pandemic and the electric grid has come down. Then he goes to sleep at 11:11 again and wakes back up in the real world again. His life begins to drift as he becomes less and less satisfied with the real world while feeling alive in this dystopian world. It's an OK s...

Do you love reading books that are badly written, badly drawn, have no convincing dialogue or characters, and present everything in a half-baked fashion? Do you like wasting your free time reading trite and worthless books? Look no further because Matt "Can't Write, Can't Draw" Kindt has written just the book for you - "Revolver".The book is about a guy who lives in two different worlds, one which is much like ours and the other where the world has gone to hell. Every day at 11.11pm he makes the...

4.5I managed to grab this reprint during the pandemic and when you consider the story itself it's quite twisted. Matt Kindt has been a mainstay in my collection and I either find his work incredible, or slightly okay. He genuinely is one of the best writers in the medium at the moment and Revolver showcases the early talent he possessed. Kindt has created a clever story and it's interesting with each page turned. The case unfolds slowly and you never really receive all the answers but that's oka...