The Darkness: Compendium Vol. 1

Pretty good story, fantastic art, secrets within secrets. This volume lays a lot of the foundation's for the Top Cow Universe, including the introduction of the Magdalena and the Angelus. The only complaint is that everything after ~66% of the book is way out of order and/or unreadable due to file compression. It's still a good book, but that's an issue that needs to be fixed.

This is a great collection of major stories for the first period of The Darkness - unfortunately, the last 300-400 pages in this massive volume are blurry, out of order, presented in a strange aspect-ratio, or are straight-up broken. Especially considering the high cost - even on sale - this is disappointing to find.

This is for the digital edition. I've tried downloading it a few times and it comes up short. It's missing the cover and first three pages. Not the end of the world, all the story pages are there. Not a deal breaker but, for the price, would've liked to have gotten all of it. Just thought I'd mention

The Kindle version is crap. Hundreds of pages are blurry and with unreadable text. Inexcusable given it's price.

Ok I am new to The Darkness so I thought the compendium would be a great way to start. The story lines are great and the art work is fantastic. I do, however, have a few complaints. There are two flaws that kept me from giving it five stars. One: there are times that the story line goes way out in left field and you have to have read "witchblade" and "batman" in order to know what is really going on. This was very upsetting and messed up the continuing story line. Second: A lot of the great art work and dialouge was lost in the fold of the book. I'm very careful with all of my graphic novels and refuse to "bend" the pages back far enough to see and read every tender morsel of the story for fear of messing up the book. Overall, the book was well worth the price.

Finding this in good quality has been a journey. Glad to finally own it. Slightly damaged in the mail, hopefully it doesn't affect the binding while reading. Still happy with it.

Alright, I own the first 3 origin volumes, all signed by Marc Silvestri, but I kind of have low patience for the wait for the release on the fourth one. I couldn't find out how many issues there were in the description of this item, however, if any of you were wondering its 1-40, I believe. I have yet to finish it, but I'm savoring it since I don't want to read it too fast. It's a good buy for a compendium I think, normally they are much more expensive if you find them at a store and whatnot.

For those that are out there looking to start a comic book collection or perhaps try to complete. Nothing works better then collection the compendium edition's of comic book series. This one covers the begining the "The Darkness" and throughs in some of the off shoots that where started during the first series of the comic. For those who want to know where "The Darkness" started or for a very well written and drawn comic, this is it. It is not for everyone, because of the sex and violence, but it was for people like my self. The only draw back to this book is the fact that the second and third series of "The Darkness" do not a a Compendium to follow it up with. This is an easy way to collect and contain over fourty comics that could coust more and take a longer time to collect seperetly.

The artwork is the best i've seen i love it. The story is great. the amount of pages in this is crazy. will buy next compendium

for someone else but they love it.

Gute Geschichte....obwohl ich die letzten 400 Seiten nicht lesen kann....Die letzten 400 Seiten sind schlecht gescannt... Buchstaben sind unlesbar. Noch dazu, viele Seiten sind mit falsche Ratio aufgenommen worden. Alle Menschen sind entweder sehr dünn oder sehr dick :-)Sehr traurig für den Preis..... Ich habe den Buch gelöscht und wieder heruntergeladen. Ohne erfolg. Gleiche Ergebnis auf einen anderen Tablet (beide Amazon tablet)

Definite buy

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