The Cape was the best story by far. The rest kind of meh. Just buy "The Cape" Graphic novel.

Joe Hill's name is on the cover more as a brand than as a contributor. Most of these stories are adapted by another writer and just sort of fall flat. The final story, "Wraith," with an actual Joe Hill script manages to bring this book up to three stars.

Does Joe Hill write novels or graphic novels? Answer: both equally and very well!This collection showcases 4 of Hill's graphic novel series (5 if you split the two Cape storylines). I know that a few of them are based on his novels and short stories, but I am not sure if all of them are. So, I suppose I could re-answer my first question to say that he writes novels and stories that lend themselves very well into graphic novels.The art throughout this collection varies. But, I enjoyed each in the...

This is a beautiful and quite heavy collection of Joe Hill's graphic stories. Not for snuggled up bed time reading.I had read The Cape and Thumbprint in 20th Century Ghosts, but The Cape was expanded in this form. The Cape and The Cape 1969 were good, though I did like 1969 better. Kodiak was a fun story that plays a bit into the power of storytelling and how legends can begin. The Wraith, the tie-in to NOS4A2, is so good though. It's not necessary to have read the novel (though why wouldn't you...

A great showcase of talented artists and the spectrum of Joe Hill's twisted horror. I thought each story was good and showed off a different style of horror. You should check this out if you're into Gaiman, Stephen King, or Locke & Key.The Cape is brutal urban fantasy. Fast paced. The strongest piece in the collection. I loved the art except it could've dialed back the Ben Day Dots. I was nearly offended by them. I couldn't stop focusing on those dots. Write a horror story about that, Joe Hill,

Just a quick review for this one! I'd already read Wraith so there was only 3 graphic novels to read in this collection: The Cape, Thumbprint and Kodiak.I have to say, The Cape was absolutely amazing and I thoroughly enjoyed it. So dark and sinister. Haunting. But the other 2 kinda let me down! I just didn't think they were that great at all. Wraith, of course, was awesome, so felt like 3 stars was a happy medium for this entire collection.

I love Joe Hill's work in general, so when I realized there was an entire collection of graphic novel short stories that I hadn't read yet, I was pretty excited and had to get my hands on it immediately. The Graphic Novel Collection features mostly hits with a couple of misses, and since there are only a few stories, I'll break them down as such: → The Cape: I thought this was a really solid introduction to the collection. It starts off by showcasing a boy who believes his "cape" (really a mo...

The first three of these stories were horror in my less favorite vein, where the main character of the story is not the/a good guy. I prefer a story where I'm rooting for the protagonist against something horrifying, rather than just witnessing them wreak havoc on innocent - or even guilty - people. I still quite enjoyed The Cape, a super dark and intense story. The Cape: 1969 was a letdown as a prequel for me. Thumbprint was interesting but didn't wholly come together into a coherent story. Fin...

Very dark and gory. If that's what you're looking for, the stories and art are decent, but other than the first story (The Cape) I was mostly unimpressed. But it comes highly rated, so maybe real comic aficionados will see genius here that I'm not.

As amazing as Joe Hill's novels are, the thing he's really famous for is comics. To be more precise, Locke and Key. Well, this isn't Locke and Key, but this book does contain a few other graphic novellas. Here's how that breaks down:The Cape: The thing that Hill has in common with Stephen King is an absolutely insane imagination, and yet the specific insanity of that imagination is also what sets them apart. So it was kinda disappointing to read The Cape and turns out it's just another of those

IDW collects some of Joe Hill's comics adapted from his stories. I really liked The Cape and The Wraith. The others range from fair to poor. Reviews for each story are linked below:The Cape - When a slacker finds his childhood cape, he finds it allows him to really fly.The Cape: 1969 - A so-so origin story for The Cape.Thumbprint - A disgraced soldier is stalked.Kodiak - A man retells how he was mauled by a bear.The Wraith - Charlie Manx from NOS4A2 returns to take some escaped convicts to Chris...

While Wraith is definitely the standout in this collection, I had read it in the Spring and read the other stories. The Cape stories were great and I can’t wait to check out the Cape: Fallen now. Thumbprint was interesting and Kodiak was a quick, fun little story.

I really enjoyed Hill's series, Locke & Key, so I was curious to see how his stand-alone graphic novel stories would fare. This is a collection of five stories by Joe Hill, which, bar the last two stories, have all been adapted into comics single-handedly by Jason Ciaramella. Hill joins him in adapting the fourth story, and handles the last one by himself. This collection includes The Cape, The Cape: 1969, Thumbprint, Kodiak, and Wraith. The Cape is a very cool story, proving that not all heroes...

Awesome book! Finished it just in time for NOS4A2. 5 stars.

This collection is a real mixed bag of unsettling graphic adaptations of Joe Hill-penned shorts. Maybe we'll just go through story by story?The Cape: A loser discovers that his childhood cape gives him the power of flight. Anddd (view spoiler)[he chooses to be a villain (hide spoiler)]. The power-trip antics grow wearisome almost immediately. 2/5The Cape 1969: An origin story for the first Cape tale, this one stars the loser's father as a Vietnam POW. It's intriguing and exciting, but should hav...

None of these stories were awful but none really grabbed me that much. The Cape was probably my favorite but it felt so hopeless and melancholy that I can't really say I enjoyed it. Thumbprint had my favorite art and I liked the depth of personalities but I didn't really get the point of the story. Similarly I didn't fully get Kodiak or Wraith but at least Kodiak was short. Wraith felt too long to me and it still didn't do as much as I would've expected. Again I didn't think any of these were re...

This was my first Joe Hill "novel". He's definitely his father's son. Personally, I think that The Cape was the best story in this collection. Followed by Kodiak and Thumbprint. Wraith was godawful. It just didn't translate well into a comic format. Like, I can't even describe just how bad I thought I was. And it's sad too because, apparently, it's a story from the NOS4A2 universe. It kinda makes me never want to read that book. If it's seriously about Christmasland and a dude who drives a Rolls...

A collection of Joe Hill's stories that were adapted into comic books.The first is "The Cape," which gets two stars.It's about a man who gets superpowers: flight. (view spoiler)[Seriously. Spoilers. He's a loser and feels inadequate, especially compared to his brother, who went to Harvard and is a doctor in Boston. His girlfriend, a nurse and originally his brother's almost-girlfriend, believes in him. Don't know why. But she's talking to his brother about getting him out of his years-long funk,...

Awesome stuff, particularly "The Cape" and "Wraith."

"The Cape" was amazing! Art, story, all of it! A little boy's cape becomes a grown up man's cape. And it ain't good! (I mean the results, not the story. The story is awesome!)"The Cape:1969" is not nearly as good, but it gives us the background of how the little boy's cape got its powers. It's set during the Viet Nam War, and is about the little boy's father. And it has this awesome quote, by the father, "... I kissed a dead guy and then killed a shit-load of people... toasted them all into cris...