Adler

by Lavie Tidhar, Paul McCaffrey

Overview

Come along for the ride of your life, as Irene Adler teams up with Jane Eyre and a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time! Collecting the five-issue critically-acclaimed mini-series written by the award-winning Lavie Tidhar (Central Station, By Force Alone) and drawn by Paul McCaffrey (Anno Dracula). This collection includes bonus material on the making of the comic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787735071
Publisher:	Titan Comics
Publication date:	03/30/2021
Series:	Adler
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	78 MB
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About the Author

Lavie Tidhar is author of Osama, The Violent Century, A Man Lies Dreaming, Central Station, and Unholy Land, as well as the Bookman Histories trilogy. His latest novels are By Force Alone, The Escapement and children’s book The Candy Mafia. His awards include the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the John W. Campbell Award, the Neukom Prize and the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize. Adler is his first graphic novel.

The brilliant Paul McCaffrey is an artist and illustrator whose work has graced numerous publications, from magazines like Empire, NME and The Spectator, to educational materials from Collins, Heinemann, Macmillan and the Cambridge University Press. He drew Anno Dracula for Titan Comics, worked on DC’s Men of War and on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and drew covers for Dr Who. Adler is his first creator-owned work.

Editorial Reviews

03/08/2021

Set in an age in which an ailing Queen Victoria’s kept alive with a steampunk apparatus by Dr. Jekyll, this thrilling comic bursts with reimagined period characters and features Sherlock Holmes’s adversary Irene Adler, who must thwart Ayesha—the warrior queen of H. Rider Haggard’s novel She—from declaring war on Great Britain. Irene is aided by a wide cast of real and fictional Victorian figures including Jane Eyre, Miss Havisham (younger, livelier, and more energetic than Dickens’s), and the little orphan, Annie. Even more obscure cameos like that of Carmilla, Le Fanu’s gothic vampire (and literary predecessor to Dracula), are organically woven into these spirited capers. The concept owes much to Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but World Fantasy Award winner Tidhar (By Force Alone) keeps a constant breathless pace of chases that are swashbuckling enough to forgive the relative simplicity of the plot: stop Ayesha from bombing London with Marie Curie’s radium, which has been weaponized by Nicola Tesla. The art by McCaffrey (Anno Dracula) complements the script with vigorous fight sequences and sharp character design. While, perhaps forgivably, not as developed as a Doyle-original Holmes mystery, the mash-up offers solid light entertainment with strong crossover appeal, as well as twists and derring-do aplenty. (Mar.)

Publishers Weekly

"Tidhar (By Force Alone) propels an ensemble of historical figures and literary characters through a knotty and thrilling plot packed with intrigue and visceral action, illustrated with a keen eye for historical detail by McCaffrey (Anno Dracula–1895: Seven Days in Mayhem)." - Library Journal Starred Review

"The story is clever and fast-paced, and its emphasis on women is refreshing and inspired ... Adler is pure entertainment, establishing a strong, intelligent heroine and a foundation that leaves the door open for future (past) adventures." - Foreword Reviews

"Fantasy Award winner Tidhar (By Force Alone) keeps a constant breathless pace of chases ... twists and derring-do aplenty" - Publisher's Weekly

"There's something massive at work behind the mash-up hook of this story, and the more you read the deeper into that sense of scale you get. It's an addictive feeling" - SyFy Wire

“Combines dynamic, manga-esque linework with an ornate, Bryan Talbot-style eye for detail, meticulously designing everything from an Art Nouveau concert poster to some authentic periodicals of the day” - SFX

"With complex artwork and a story that puts a unique spin on some of the 19th century's greatest literary heroines, this is one adventure you'll want to sign-on for" - Kabooooom

"From fans of the various literary properties to those who have only minimal information on any of them, “Adler” #1 is both educational and entertaining" - Multiversity Comics

"A highly detailed and enjoyable adventure" - Monkeys Fighting Robots

"At its finest, Adler is a delightful, progressive penny dreadful that reminds readers of its Victorian inspirations" - Comic Watch

“A fun and unique story ... filled with memorable characters and the plot delivers a pulp-style mystery perfectly ... a truly memorable tale.” - But Why Tho

“The rapid pacing of the story leaves you breathless from enjoyment, the exited bombast of explosion, gunfire, and murder is deliciously overt and there’s a unique thrill to seeing more modern sensibilities overlaid on classic figures ... Ridiculous and riveting, Adler is a (penny) dreadfully fabulous story” - SciFi Now

“A wonderful take on historical fiction. The fictional characters from various forms of literature and historical figures are breathtakingly brought to life in this greater-than-life journey” - The Fandom Post

“A thoroughly entertaining alternate history tale – recommended. 9/10” - SciFi Bulletin

“Tidhar and McCaffrey form a great team that keeps you interested and intrigued from the opening panels right up to the end. There’s nothing elementary about this one” - Forces of Geek

“Fun and exciting ...  [a] fast-paced, thrilling adventure. I’d love to see more Adler graphic novels in the future, as there are endless possibilities with this fresh take on familiar literary characters.” - SciFi Chick

"Adler, in which the opera singer-turned-adventuress teams up with other fictional women — Lady Havisham! Jane Eyre! — as well as real historical figures — Marie Curie! Queen Victoria! — to protect the British Empire from an angry African queen and a vampiric assassin" - Book Riot

From the Publisher

★ 02/01/2021

In 1902, Jane Eyre returns from serving as an ambulance driver in the Boer War to discover electric lights lining the streets of London and airships drifting across the skies. Searching for lodgings, she visits freethinking inventor Lady Havisham, who introduces her to Irene Adler, an American opera star and adventurer with amazing deductive powers. After discovering Adler's quest to keep a trove of documents necessary for building a devastating weapon of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands, Eyre volunteers to assist her. Soon, the pair are locked in battle with a coalition of the Victorian era's most loathsome villains—including vampiric assassin Carmilla, criminal mastermind Professor Moriarity, Colonel Moran, Raffles, and a knife-wielding maniac going by Jack, among others—headed by Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, a ferocious warrior queen hell-bent on destroying the British Empire as revenge for colonizing her homeland. VERDICT Tidhar (By Force Alone) propels an ensemble of historical figures and literary characters through a knotty and thrilling plot packed with intrigue and visceral action, illustrated with a keen eye for historical detail by McCaffrey (Anno Dracula-1895: Seven Days in Mayhem).

Library Journal