Customer Reviews

Singularity 7

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Templesmith is a master artist and conceptualist, but Singularity 7 shows that he still needs some work on storytelling and characterization. Some of the characters are hard to tell apart, and no character ever comes out as a lead. I have no problem with emsemble pieces, but there were characters that seemed like they were only in the story to serve as a lead, then never got to be one. The boy with the dragon tattoo on his face, for example (those who've read this will understand).

Negatives aside, Templesmith's art has always been exceptional, and he does not break from that here. Plus, the concept of the story is extremely engaging, even when the characters are not. It's too bad that this is a self-contained story, because the story could have gone on as a series for quite some time. I have high hopes for his current series, Shadowplay, and hope to see that published as a collection soon.

I will be simple... Great story (it is Templesmith debut as a storyteller), the art is his own kind, very special, I love all the details of his art and this terror scy-fi graphic novel. I rate this book with four stars (instead five) because the quality of the binding is disgusting...

An awesome story-line, fantastic artwork and a superb mix of horror and science fiction make this one to remember. Highly recommended to anyone who likes the band Fear Factory, as the artist of Singularity 7, Ben Templesmith, was actually commissioned by the band to do their artwork.

All in all, worth the money and worth a read. Over and over again

Product came with very heavy / prominent creases and one small tear in a page. However, that still made it no less enjoyable as a story - which is unbelievably fantastic i might add - a testament to Mr. Templesmith's ingenuity and to his mastery of freshly crafted ideas. I actually can't remember where the tear was - very small and i fixed with some tape. This sort of thing would usually bug someone as finicky as me but the art/ story really makes up for that. I would really recommend this to anyone who is a fan of Mr. Templesmith or of works of the post - apocalyptic genre.

Ben Templesmith has done it again, presenting us with visions of nightmares and violence that insidiously place themselves over our subconscious fears, but in a fun way. Terrifying, but funny. I can see here the beginnings of Wormwood.

If you want an idea of Singularity 7, think of the liner artwork from a third-tier industrial band combined with the writing of an angsty teenage aspiring novelist, and you'd be in the right ballpark. This is not to say that Templesmith's art is without some technical ability; it's more to say that it's painfully unoriginal, and the melty surrealist style serves to neuter what little action is available in the book, leaving mounds of mushy exposition to carry the plot.

A much better version of a very similar basic story can be found in Snikt, the post-apocalyptic Wolverine story by Tsutomu Nihei, for those in desperate need of a moody, nanotech apocalypse story in graphic novel form.