Sword of Azrael #3

The third issue of Dan Watters' deep dive into the world of Azrael takes the series in a much more horror-driven direction. Read Full Review

This is a great comic. I never expected to see Azrael get this kind of spotlight again (especially with such a high quality creative team) so I feel lucky every month just to be getting this book. It is still an easy recommendation for me. Buy it! Read Full Review

The introduction of a new villain develops tension and releases it with an excellent, albeit brief, combat sequence by the end. Wherever the battle is going, it alone is cause enough to return to Sword of Azrael next month. Read Full Review

What's great about this series is the way that anyone who knows nothing about Azrael or his history can pick it up and partake of a delicious meal. However, those of us who know about the Knights Templar and their rogue offshoot, The Order Of St. Dumas, from the original Sword of Azrael mini-series (1992-1993), through “Knightfall”, “Knightquest”, and “KnightsEnd”, plus Azrael's own 100-issue series (1995-2003) will be tasting an altogether, deeper, richer, and more bountiful banquet. Read Full Review

meowmeow

Oct 10, 2022

I love everything about this! The whole team puts so much passion, hard work and effort into this and it shows. The art is dynamic and full of passion, the colors fit the art and set the mood. And the lettering is one of the best and most creative I have ever seen. Everything goes amazingly together. And the story is so well written! I also love the covers of all the issues. I am so happy Azrael was brought back to life and given in the hands of this amazing team.

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RKS - Oct 11, 2022

Care to give some specific examples from the issue to support your statements of praise? I will agree that the variant covers are well done, yet the main ones are "Meh" at best. As a side note, you should never start a sentence with the word "And".

RKS

Oct 09, 2022

I actually give this issue a zero out of ten. The art continues to be really really bad. The images are little more then doodles with lack of detail or any sort of drawing that requires any real effort or talent. The colours that are used remind me the late 1990's fashion where neon was popular, at least the poor choice for colours matches the horrible artwork. Then there is the lackluster writing. This is the third issue of a six issue mini series. We should be at the most exciting part of the story and it feels like this is something that should have been established in issue 2. Watters is dragging his feet in terms of pacing and his plot development is obvious. I also didn't like that they had Azrael lose so easily to "Satan" (Nice name for an antagonist...) It's obvious that they are going to have the strong female character Sariel save the day. Blah blah blah...Tired and weak writing. Honestly they would have been better to leave Jean Paul dead at the end of issue 100 because this entire series is just a prime example of what happens when you give a character to a writer who doesn't know or even respect the established characters/story parameters. more