Product Description

The Witchblade Compendium Volume 2 brings readers into the world of NYPD detective Sara Pezzini and the mysterious mystical gauntlet the Witchblade! Superstar writer Ron Marz (The Darkness) brings readers what they are looking for with revelations about the nature and origin of the Witchblade itself! For fans of the series this is a must have for any collection!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158290 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1280 pages

Customer Reviews

Nice looks, poor storytelling...
I've recently been introduced to the world of Witchblade, after buying both Compendiums. I was already aware of Top Cow's fame of making comics with artists with cool visuals and writers with poor storytelling. Like the first volume, this is a perfect example of it.

Witchblade is clearly written by people that don't know how to write comics. At the very least by people that don't do any research at all. The main character, Sarah Pezzinni, is a cop, and instead of making us believe she's a cop, she looks more like a top model with poor acting skills acting in a cop movie. Instead of trying to understand how real cops work, they seem to get their inspiration from shows like CSI: Miami.

There's no sense of continuity whatsoever. One of the main arcs in this volume, "Death Pool", is developed poorly and amateurlish. Ian Nottingham's character changes personality depending on the phase the book is. It's not uncommon in comic books, but in this case it appears sometimes the character doesn't remember what happened last time he appeared.

Another thing that I didn't like here was that there is somewhere in the middle of those 50 issues a crossover between Witchblade and Tomb Raider, and the Tomb Raider's issues aren't there, so you only get half of the story, and if I'm not mistaken, you don't get the ending. Still, the goal here was to have issues #51 to 100 in one volume, so I guess that's understandable. Still, it's annoying.

The reason it gets 3 stars instead of 1 or 2 is because this volume starts collecting Ron Marz run on the title. It starts to get a bit more complex and definitely more well-written. He introduces us to the origin of the Witchblade itself, and introduces some new characters, while getting rid of old ones.