I read this last year prior to the release of the motion picture release of the same name. I've seen the current motion picture since, as well as Omega Man and The Last Man on earth, and I must say that none of these even come close to the original.This book takes a great twist on the traditional vampire story (that I won't spoil) and, although it is not a zombie story, it serves as inspiration for modern zombie horror by placing a single character in a position where he is constantly trying to

Didn't see the movie, so had no idea this was a vampire story, but liked the scientific twist and attribution of vampire existence to germ theory.

i liked this book so much, i'm reading it again. this is a different view on Richard Matheson's classic novel. I've seen the movie and these are both very different. This is about a world taken over by vampires while the movie was about the world being taken over by an infectious disease. If I was to say which was better, I would say this. This book's art is beautiful and the story is simple yet great. I would recommend picking it up and at least reading a couple pages. It's great.

What a perfect adaptation of the book. It was visualized on paper almost exactly as I imagined it in my head. Well done!!

This book is a bit long-winded, but you could expect that from a tale that is mainly told from the perspective of one man's head. Particularly an intensely introspective, brash, macho, desperate man's head. Nonetheless, it is well animated and well-told. The movie concentrates so much on the habitual activity in already created comfort (which i appreciated for the first half). The book though explains more furtively how he came to live in such an accomodating environment. He has more humble surr...

This was a really good depiction of what a world could be like if drastic changes happen to it and to society. I did feel at times that the graphic novel a bit disjointed, probably because they couldn't include as many details as they needed to to make it flow better. I also found that sometimes the text was hard to read, that it was easy to confuse some of the letters for others. Overall though, not a bad read.

The book that I had read for this essay was the graphic novel version of “I am Legend”, I have yet to read the actual novel of I am Legend, but I can tell you what I liked about this version of the visual novel of I am Legend. One of the things I noticed with the visual novel to the movie was that the main character was a different race, but they have the same name in both the movie and the book. In the book, there were actual vampires, while in the movie, they were zombie-like vampires.Now, I d...

The idea of a graphic novel version of one of my favorite horror classics was so exciting to me, when my own (large) county library systems didn't have a copy, I used the inter-library-loan system to find a copy elsewhere. After all that, this book was a letdown. I'm not sure what the difference is, but this was less a graphic novel than an abridged, illustrated copy of the book. Other than the illustrations, I didn't get a real feeling for the artist and what he meant to convey by making this b...

Just couldn't deal with the art style tbh. One more I Am Legend letdown.

This adaptation by Steve Niles with art by the great Elman Brown is a real pleasure. The story flows, the illustrations deserve an award, and the emotional impact is intense. This is something quite special.

I had already read the short story when I picked this up. The illustrations added something to the story, and I would definitely recommend to others.

A re-reading of sorts as I have read the original novel and this is a graphic novel format. I found this very well done and faithful to the original with the art bringing the story to life better than the awful Will Smith movie. I still have a soft sport for the Charton Heston "Omega Man" and the Vincent Price "The Last Man On Earth" was the most faithful, but a bit dated now. A great read and highly recommended.

This is the graphic novel adaption of Richard Mathieson's book. I picked it up because I was too lazy to read the original novel. Joke's on me, this is the wordiest comic book I have ever laid eyes on. Some of this text got skimmed, I admit, for two reasons. The first is that not all of the words are necessary, the pictures give you a pretty good idea of what's going on. But mainly, this book is so suspenseful, I was always dying to turn the page. The art is dated, but functional. The black and

Here in all of its deep dark psychological warfare glory is Richard Matheson's seminal horror masterpiece: I Am Legend. Steven Niles adapts the ENTIRE story for the visual realm (thanks to Elman Brown) and pulls no punches as we see Robert Nevill, thought to be the last man on a planet conquered by a vampiric race of creatures that used to be his friends, family, and neighbors, while slowly slide into a pit of horrific depression that knows no bottom. During the day, Nevill hunts the beasts, but...

Like many callow teens, my interest in vampires didn’t begin with Dracula. Neither the initial Bram Stoker novel that started it all, nor did the Christopher Lee silver screen adaptations spark my interest. Retrospectively cringe, it was the Underworld series of the the early 00’s began my interest in the blood-drinking, fanged immortals of the night. Yes the series is trash. Yes its dumb. I know better now but at the time I found its stylizations unforgettable. Fast forward years and an ever-gr...

I don’t see the point of this being made into comic form at all. As far as graphic novels are concerned, this is by far the wordiest I’ve ever come across. The action sequences (not many) could have been drawn instead of narrated. What we get as a result are panels after panels of Neville basically just sitting around. Top it all off with lousy artwork, the overall journey was just painful. Despite all that, I did like the story. Especially when the dog entered the picture. It was enjoyable enou...

I think the adaptation is well done and that the illustrations are great. Some of the strategies used, such as the blurring of the boundaries between Neville and the vampires and the speech balloons for Cortman worked great. However, it is too faithful—there is no risk with the adaptation whatsoever. I know this is announced from the beginning, which is why almost everything on the text is used as written by Matheson in the novel. However, I was expecting an authorial turn that was never there.

I was 12 or 13 when i watched I am Legend and it's one of my favorite Zombie film. So recently i just find out that it was from a novel and adapted to a Graphic novel, also i discovered that the story is quite different from the movie. Luckily i found the graphic novel and i didn't quite like it at first but then at the middle to the last part is the miracle of the book happens, it's intense, frustrating, and beautiful. I must say the story in the book is WAY better, but i like Robert Neville ch...

Awesome adaptation of Richard Matheson's classic.Reading this graphic novel for the first time (many years after seeing Will Smith in the cinematic version) was really surprising.The original plot is so much more interesting than the blockbuster movie in a social/psychological way, and you'll surprised a few time along the way, up until the end.The art by Elman Brown is perfectly suited for the narrative, and tops many of the best vampire stories out there.All in all, don't get discouraged by th...

An eerie read to say the least. This is not the same story as the movie in case you're wondering. I am always a fan of "what if..." books and putting myself in the place of the main character. This book was a quick read, chapters were short, and kept you involved so that by the time you were done reading for the night you had read more than you realized.