Atomic Blonde: The Coldest City

Since it's black and white and some of the art is cryptic, the story was difficult to follow at times or the characters got confusing. It helped that I saw the movie first. Had to read some pages more than once. But then it all makes sense because it's a spy story and I always have to watch spy movies more than once. So maybe that's what the writer and illustrator was selling. Confusing up front, but lots of "oh yea" revelations later.Reading this actually answered one of my questions from the movie. I never understood why Lorraine gave the coroner wrong numbers.

If you're looking for one of the best graphic novels ever; look elsewhere. This isn't a bad GN, just not a game changer like The Dark Knight Returns or Watchmen. Its middle of the road. The story is reasonably fast paced, and easy to follow. Its decidedly British in character. The artwork is decent. Don't expect a bunch of Jim Lee quality splatter pages, you ain't gonna get it, but the art is bleak and the B&W lends itself well to a story that is from a dreary and cold past. In the end its worth a read, but if you saw and loved Atomic Blonde I'll caution it was a somewhat loose adaptation of this GN. Personally I think Atomic Blonde was a much better story that this. The changes made the story much more interesting and added a definite plot twist which was hinted at in the GN, but not explored. If you want to see the source material for Atomic Blonde (that's why I read it) you won't necessarily be disappointed, but if you're expecting the same story in another format you'll likely be left wanting. IF this would be your first foray into GNs I would advise starting with something considerably better first (DKR or Watchment are what I'd recommend). As someone who reads comics regularly I found the story to be decent, but a bit obvious. Ideally the art and writing need to work together to where the art is doing what a picture is supposed to do (be worth 1,000 words). This fell well short of that mark, but was entertaining nonetheless for the 30 minutes it took me to read it. If I'd gone into it without having first seen the film I might have had a different reaction, but probably not. Atomic Blonde was really, really good. Typically a film is lucky to live up to the quality of the source material, most often they fall short (literally every Batman movie thus far is a good example). I can think of two examples where the films were better than the GN: the first is V for Vendetta, and the second is Atomic Blonde.

I just love Atomic Blonde and watch it often. So, I wanted to see how closely the graphic novel content was to the movie. They weren’t far afield, just different. Consequently, it’s a treat to own both.

Alright, I don't know much about how spies operates in real life. But I think this story is much closer to it than any other comic or movie. It's really intresting and convoluted to a degree it should have be. Specific arc, and consistent causal chain. My only complain about it is, that I don't liked the ending. It wasn't bad, just not for me. It's the only reason I gave 4 instead of 5.

Only 4 stars because of the over-grayness of the drawings. The story was a bit hard to follow at times and the drawings just made it more difficult. Still, a good graphic novel, almost as good as The Coldest Winter.

Greate story, definitely has to be read it a few times before knowing what's really going on, not the best artwork but a good story for sure!

Horrible artwork, but great story. It looks like they started the art, then gave up halfway through

Honestly liked the movie much, much better.There are such vast differences with the visual appearances of the characters.And subplots & action scenes (her relationship with the girl in the movie and some of the action scenes near the end of the movie) are not present in the book.Not that it's bad.I just found the movie to be quite more enjoyable.

I think some reviews are saying they watched the film and don't like this Graphic Novel. This the original work which the film is based on. The style is actually fitting with the Cold War and the espionage genre. If people can't understand graphic novels are written and illustrated in different ways it's their loss. Both The Coldest Winter and The Coldest City are great to read if you enjoy this type of genre. Going by how the film was isn't really the way to view this work. You will also see how they tweaked with the ending if you have seen the film and it's different from the original. Good graphic novel.

Just as described. Very well packaged. Will use again. Good experience No problems arrived earlier that anticipated. \good company to do business with. Highly recommend.

Rubbish - a comic book.

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Great story.