Product Description

Writer J. Michael Straczynski's classic tale of loss and redemption is collected in its entirety with all 12 issues, Midnight Nation #1/2, and a cover gallery. Also includes a touching and insightful afterword from Straczynski.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #282423 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Customer Reviews

Land of the Lost meets Night of the Living Dead
J. Michael Straczynski's Midnight Nation is a terrific and hard to put down graphic novel. If you are looking for supermodels in spandex or cat suits (Not that there's anything wrong with that!), then this is not your book. The story is original and compelling and has sufficient pacing to keep you turning the pages and staying up way past your bedtime. Occasionally, I found the story to be downright thought provoking-more than I generally ask for in a graphic novel. Although I was often left wondering how dense protagonist David Velinsky could be, I did become interested in the characters and wanted them to make out all right.

The characters penciled by Gary Frank, while being generally better looking than you and your friends, are less "cartoonish" than the usual comic action heroes. Many of the frames teemed with details, but most showed little beyond the main focus of the action. This was clearly a style choice, as the artistic team, including Gary Frank, inkers Jonathan Sibal and Jason Gorder, and colorist Matt Milla, shows what it is capable of in the beautiful collection of covers in the back of the book. With all the comics turned movies of late, watch out for Midnight Nation at a theater near you. It can't be long in coming.

A cynical, brooding cop, a beautiful and mysterious guide, busloads of green and black zombies-what more could you ask for?

Brilliant!
This is a fantastic trade paperback. Straczynski's writing and Frank's artwork come together with freshness and originality.

The story has a lot of great Heaven and Hell stuff, kind of like Garth Ennis' "Preacher" books with a bit of X-files thrown in. It's pretty intense, definitely not for kids. It's nice and long, so you can settle down for a good read.

And you won't see the ending coming, it's handled very well. This was a joy to read. Check it out!

Amazing!
Upon first reading the description of this book, I thought it was going to be another stupid irrelevant horror comic, but was I EVER WRONG!!! This book has opened my eyes to a new way of seeing things, and the author isn't in-your-face about it either though. His message is subtle weaved throughout the book until in the end you find yourself realizing what he's saying through the story.

Take for example what he says about how he watched a street corner from midday to early in the morning once. He said that during the day it was business people, parents, kids, ect and that at night just past midnight different kinds of people came out, hookers, users, bums, vagabonds, the forgotten, the thrown away, the used, the abused, one corner, two different places, same location, why the dicotomy of people/environment of one place? He goes into a lot of detail and he exaplains it A LOT more clearly but listen, if you don't buy this book, at least read it once, just once. It's a great book that will make you see things in a different light or lack thereof.