Die, Volume 3: The Great Game (DIE TP)

The weakest in the series.

“Die – The Great Game” collects issues #11-15 of this excellent fantasy/horror series.I am no great fan of heroic fantasy – I read it all when I was a teenager, because you could back then – but I grew out of it when it became an industry and realised that ‘good writing’ was more interesting than subject matter. So, when Peter F Hamilton or Richard Morgan write fantasy stories, I read them because they are superb writers, and Kieron Gillen writes superb comics, so I am reading this series.Due to Covid disruption affecting my local library, volume 2 of this book was a year late arriving, and volume 3 was waiting on the shelf when it did.I could remember little of the first volume, and found volume 2 a bit heavy going, but reading this one so quickly after the 2nd, I was able to just drive straight through without having to try and remember what was going on, and the quality of writing is definitely showing through.The first volume was scene-setting, the second, character developing, and now the plot is beginning to be revealed here, and it is going off in an unexpected direction, though I am reminded of Mr Gillen’s “Journey into Mystery” here; not for any direct copying, but just the feel and for HG Wells here reminding me of Tony Wilson in JM.As I wrote for the previous volume – “Mr Gillen is a superb writer of mainstream comic-books, where, like the British Vertigo writers of old, he looks at their traditional stories from an Un-American angle. Here he is doing the same sort of thing, though here he is bringing his knowledge of the background of game-design/production (he was a journalist specialising in that field) as well as bringing-in the “real-world” that real people inhabit, through that self-examination of life that ‘mature’ people have to go through to reach maturity.”

now before someone jumps the gun, yeah I did receive the comic. I just put it down to get the other two and the third one [pttfff] vanished. so I'm going to wait for volume four to be out before getting another volume three, two and one

Interesting, beautiful.