(3,5 of 5) Hinterkind. Not really appreciated here. 3,2 rating is pretty low on Goodreads and I can see what could be a problem for other readers. But for me, it's not so bad. It's a post-apocalyptic world, where few enclaves op humans survive and the hinterland came back to claim the Earth. Yes, all the mythic and fairytale creatures are real here. And their years in hideaway from humankind left them quite bitter. So we have postapocalyptic survival, fairytale/mythic creatures, some post-govern...

I was admiring the cover and that's what made me pick up this book series, I've gotten the next 2 volumes of Hinterkind and all of them have amazing cover art. It got me really excited to read them after seeing the cover of the book so, when I finished reading the book and I was completely disappointed. This throws us into a world with no explanation and just comes off as completely confusing. The opening I thought was nice setting up some dystopian type future. I like that central park, a place...

Ian Edginton - writerFrancesco Trifogli - illustratorSometime in the future, an unknown catastrophe has decimated the human population of Earth. At the same time, perhaps as a result of the unnamed catastrophe, the older races of Earth, long thought to be legend or myth, return from hiding to claim dominion over the World. Now humans are an endangered species, while Elves, Trolls, Goblins, Faeries and all manner of mythological creatures roam across the land. When the the last remaining human se...

Long after an apocalyptic plague devastates humanity, a band of survivors eke out a living in Central Park, surrounded by overgrown high-rises and rusting cars. A young heroine named Prosper who's an expert shot with a bow, and her male acquaintance with a dark secret, decide to disobey the adults and leave the camp. They find the world overrun with creatures of myth and folktale, starting with a troll living under the ruins of the George Washington bridge; with humans in decline, these creature...

I won a book! I received this book as part of the Goodreads First Reads giveaways.This book arrived with a copy of the 2013 guide to DC Graphic Novels - a nice touch - it's interesting, AND a good marketing gimick! (Heavy on the superhero books, though.)The story has a lot of promise: some undefined illness fells the majority of humans, letting the planet go back to Mother Nature (trees grow on the top of the Empire State Building, and the planet seems to have warmed, there are tropical birds an...

Also reviewed for Tattoo Girl ReadsIt was not enough, it was too much, and the art was fugly.Does that make sense?I'll try to explain.Blight happened, and now humanity is on the verge of extinction.What's Blight, you ask?I'm assuming that it was a virus or maybe a biological weapon, but I can't say for sure, because it wasn't really explained.It happened.Now the characters live in a post-apocalyptic world.And you know what every dystopian world needs, right? A girl with an odd name who's good

First off my thanks to NetGallery and the publisher for providing me with a copy to review. With that said as much as I enjoyed the first TPB in this series it does feel somewhat derivative of many current dystopian science fiction trends.A plague hits the world and technology takes a huge tumble. Much of the human race has died off, and what remains has set up agrarian communities. Bows and arrows have pretty much replaced guns, and communication between settlements is maintained, but not witho...

I'm always excited for a new Vertigo series, and the art here is pretty cool, but the story is familiar and nothing to write home about. The dialogue is rough and the characters are unrelatable archetypes, little more. A lot of neat ideas implemented here are mucked up by an over abundance of cornball tropes. A lot of the designs are very interesting and the colors are inventive, fitting perfectly with the unique universe, but the story doesn't provide the necessary framework for this to be a fu...

This rating/review is based on an ARC from netgalley.Woof. The plot was awful and the art was also so awful! This is definitely the very worst comic I've read. The only good part were the wide shots of New York City overrun by plants, and even then it is pretty cliché. The creatures were like Saga but worse. The plot was kind of like a mix of Saga, Sweet Tooth, and other dystopian junk, to make an overall uncreative mess. Also so many of the women in this comic were drawn like men! All women don...

Hinterkind is a post-apocalyptic fantasy story that is set some time after an unspoken something happens to the earth, nearly wiping out the population of humans. You know, like what happens in post-apocalyptic stories. Except in this story, the Hinterkind happen to be a bunch of mythical creatures that have come forth to reclaim the earth and take out their vengeance on the last of humanity.This is a fantasy story with lots of ambition and even though it’s set on earth, it’s set in a different

I don't know why, but I had been putting off reading this. Now that I have finally read the first arc, I feel kinda silly for waiting so long.When Vertigo went through their little change up a while back, I kind of thought it was the death rattle of the glory days. However, with new titles like this, I can feel the hope inside of me bubbling up with excitement. This story has some great characters, an intriguing world, wonderful plot development and some very pretty pictures. These first six iss...

As a rule, I'm prepared to give new works the benefit of the doubt and assume that what might otherwise earn the label "cliche" might just be the repetition of a classic trope or even a bit of homage. Cliche's come so fast and furious in "Hinterkind," one cannot avoid the "C" word.The plot? Decades after an unnamed plague wiped out much of humanity, a settlement of survivors scrapes by in Central Park. A pair of teens (pretty girl who shoots a bow with flawless aim and boy who secretly loves her...

The Hinterkind tells the story of a post-apocalyptic America, where humans are almost extinct and the dominant species are those formerly relegated to myth and fantasy, i.e., trolls, elves, sidhe, that have grown to despise humans. The story is fast-paced with lots of action and I found myself really drawn into this post-civilized world where so much is focused on mere survival. There are a lot of threads here that remain unresolved and I look forward to volume 2. [I received this book as a netg...

Hinterkind is the uneasy spawn of Sweet Tooth and Fables, both Vertigo books that were popular so Ian Edginton decided, why not smoosh them together? … Because you get Hinterkind, that’s why! It’s an arbitrary number of years in the future - let’s say 300,000, why not? - and humanity has become an endangered species. The Blight, a plague that wiped most of us out, has left the cities of the world ghost towns, the foliage reclaiming the architecture so places like Noo Yawk look like those gorgeou...

How can you mess up post-apocalyptic fantasy? It's like making bad chocolate.Unfortunately Hinterkind did mess it up.Writing isn't particularly good and storyline is just dull.Only reason I didn't give it 1 star is somewhat interesting setting.

3.5 stars.The bad reviews for this book almost scared me off. I thought the premise sounded pretty awesome--sort of The Walking Dead meets Fables--but a 3.3 average GR rating? Ouch. (And yes, I rounded down to 3 stars, but I'm harder on my books than the average GR reviewer so I would normally expect this to have around 4 stars. :P) I probably wouldn't have picked it up if I hadn't happened to win it in a First Reads giveaway, but I'm glad I did because I ended up quite enjoying it. It's a fun,

Originally posted to my blog: https://diminishingthoughts.wordpress...Hinterkind focuses on the divide that is between human and hinterkind- creatures of myth that no one knew existed until the world was basically destroyed.We start out with Prosper and Angus, two teenagers out hunting in the forest who are rebellious and don’t understand the meaning of ‘Don’t leave’. After running away from their town they meet a man named Jon and from there, their lives are completely turned aroundI liked what...

I'm not terribly impressed so far. The beautiful Greg Tocchini cover artwork is merely a bait and switch for the sketchy art of Francesco Trifogli, and Ian Edgington's writing is simplistic. It's like reading a 1940s anti-Jap comic with cuss words and modern slang in it. The Hinterkind are all levels of bad, whether they wanted to kill or enslave humans--not so different from a World War II comic. It's all about revenge and survival, and the fantasy twist doesn't brighten anything up. It eschews...

Received in a Goodreads First Reads giveaway.Nature has reclaimed the Earth and humanity has been decimated due to an unexplained catastrophe called the Blight. Creatures of myth and legend, hidden for millennia during mankind's era of dominance, have emerged from the shadows and formed factions with the aim of ruling this new, old world.There is not a lot new here. Hinterkind reads as the bastard child of Fables and Game of Thrones, with a liberal dash of Saga, mixing post-apocalyptic fiction w...

I read the first three issues in singles and wasn't really hooked, I much preferred Coffin Hill, the other Vertigo book that came out at the same time. Whilst the statement remains true, I do look on Hinterkind a bit more favorably after reading this trade. It's got some interesting ideas and intriguing characters, with a lot of moving parts for just 6 issues, but just as it gets going, the trade ends, so whilst I'm looking forward to volume 2, it still left me a little disappointed. The artwork...