Reviews for Super Spy

The average rating for Super Spy based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-01-29 00:00:00 Steven Slade 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 have snubbed it, just because of the artwork. I was used to DC comics, artwork that was all about bulging muscles, bulging breasts and perfect physiques. A tad shallow. After reading more independent comics over the years it made me appreciate different flavours of artwork and that there shouldn't be a common style, but instead just a good flow. That's was the artwork does for me. It tells the story clearly and it's quirky at the same time. The story itself is confusing and I'll probably need to read it again, but the detail is extraordinary and ideas I wouldn't have dreamed of. A fantastic story of a collection of spies and what they go through in order to make sacrifices for the war.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-03-12 00:00:00 Laura Wilson 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 somewhat of a spy as s/he learns details that some characters aren't (yet) privy to, observes intimate moments, and tries to piece it all together. A truly excellent graphic novel and one that I think all readers, whether you are a frequent graphic narrative reader or not, will enjoy. I've been looking forward to this for awhile and finally picked it up when Top Shelf had a big sale along with Kindt's Two Sisters: A Super Spy Novel and Pistolwhip, and I'm really looking forward to reading more of his work.