Adrenalynn: Weapon of War [Paperback]

Tony Daniel (Author), Martin Egeland (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2001

The hit miniseries is finally available in one volume! During the Cold War, the Russians created the perfect covert weapon -- incredible strength, speed, and stealth within a single human body. After several prototypes are hidden away in the U.S., Project Adrenalynn discovers a teenage girl named Sabina Nikoli -- and turns her into the ultimate weapon! Now, she's been found in the U.S. and reactivated to search and destroy the killer prototypes...but once her job's done, her creators want her dead as well! Featuring characters from the hot series The Tenth, Adrenalynn: Weapon of War is a wild ride like no other!

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Dark Horse (December 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569716218
• ISBN-13: 978-1569716212
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.7 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,577 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Engages the reader's total and rapt attention, December 13, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adrenalynn: Weapon of War (Paperback)

Dark Horse Comics has established itself as a premier publisher of contemporary comics and graphic novels that sets the standard for art in the service of story telling. One of the latest and best examples of this is Tony Daniel and Martin Egeland's Adrenalynn: Weapon Of War. This is the story of a young crippled girl, Sabina Nikoli, who is plucked from a Russian orphanage, extensively operated upon to equip her with biomechanical prosthetics, and trained to be a cyborg assassin: codename "Adrenalynn". She is to be Russia's ultimate Cold War weapon. But with the collapse of the Soviet Union all she wants is to escape her "hunt and kill" assignments -- directed primarily at other Russian cyborgs who have "gone rogue". But the way to personal freedom is one of blood, violence, and heartbreak. Adrenalynn: Weapon Of War is a superb graphic novel that engages the reader's total and rapt attention from beginning to end.

2.0 out of 5 stars It could have been better...., February 4, 2010

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Joel B. Kirk (Bay Area, CA, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Adrenalynn: Weapon of War (Paperback)

As was mentioned in another review, this story is about a Russian girl who is taken from an orphanage to be used in a government experiment to be a cyborg weapon.

As I type that description, I recall that story has been told before. Many times before. (When a story has been told many times before, I hope that the writer is able to put a new spin on the story).

This is not the case with Adrenalynne.

The title character Adrenalynne, aka Sabina Nikoli is revived, and wants to get back the people who changed her into a weapon, and destroy other cyborgs that have been sent to America.

It is said in the story that there were Chinese as well as Russian cyborgs; however, we don't get why the Chinese are involved. (We only get the reason why the Russians want to do it....i.e. to take over the world! Or at least America, and have Russia rise in power!) It is assumed that there are some characters who are Chinese or Asian due to their names; but they are given no distinctive characteristics that show the reader is such. All the characters look pretty much the same pretty much.

The cyborgs that Adrenalynne destroy are not given any depth; we are to assume they are evil and accept that. Moreover, the villains as a whole are one-dimensional.

There are no real obstacles for the heroine; she takes down anyone without any strain; she is always one step ahead of the 'bad guys.'

I think this heroine, who is obviously tightly-leather-clad/anatomically correct in the course of the story, could have been something more with a stronger story.