The Prisoner #1

Overall. This is a really strong first issue and I am definately on the hook to see what this goes in future issues. Read Full Review

I am not a number, but my reviews are, and this gets a hands down perfect 5. Read Full Review

Lorimer's art is a good fit, sliding ably from realistic to 60s psychedelic. The flow of the action is smooth and the panels filled to the brim with detail, bringing the locations alive. He is particularly adept at layer panels over one another to create a step-by-step feel. Read Full Review

It's an excellent start to the series - if you're a fan of the show (like all right-thinking people), you'll enjoy this. Read Full Review

The art is decent. Lorimar experiments with a few scenes and it works pretty well. It's pretty. I'm intrigued to see where it's going but I'm hedging my bets as I've been let down some many times before with this franchise. Read Full Review

While this first issue is light on an real information (INFOrmation! INFORMATION!) about the plot behind the Village’s walls, the debut of The Prisoner is still intriguing and weird enough to please die hard fans of the series while hopefully hooking in some new ones as well. Thanks to its world-building, gleeful weirdness, and game creative team, I think it's safe to say that Titan Comics has another winner of an adaptation on its hands with The Prisoner #1. Read Full Review

The Prisoner is just the sort of property that Peter Milligan was born to write, and I can't wait to see what happens next. Read Full Review

The Prisoner #1 is a very dry yet energetic first installment for this comic adaptation. The lead is interesting, the plot and conflict are compelling, and the art is rock solid. This one earns a recommendation. Check it out. Read Full Review

An interesting modernization of the original concepts, firmly planted in the 21st Century, which references and calls back to the show. Read Full Review

Overall I like this book and I want to read the next one. I believe the artist took some missteps creatively but it doesn't take away from a great story. Read Full Review

Milligan and Lorimer offer an intriguing opening salvo for this new series based (perhaps more loosely than first thought) on the short-lived cult classic television show. Only time and more issues will tell how much the comic has in common with the show, but for now, that information is top secret. Don't worry. We'll eventually get it out of them. Read Full Review

The Prisoner, as a phenomenon, is one of those shows that carries with it,its own weight of expectations.It's eccentricities may well be a step to far for a comic book, but if anyone has half a chance of escaping theballooning weight of expectation,it's Peter Milligan. Read Full Review

On the whole this was an OK first issue.It's a big deal to take on such an iconic TV show, still loved by millions of fans all over the world.Introducing new concepts and characters into the world of The Prisoner should be an exciting and roller coaster ride, and I will buy future issues in the hope the team deliver the goods.This is a recommendation though, give it a shot and let us know your thoughts. Read Full Review

Bottom line, it sure would’ve been a lot more exciting if the comic had started in the Village. Or, if it had started a few months earlier and we’d seen more of what led him to quit his job as a spy, but, I guess that might’ve ruined the mystery of the thing. All I can say is, in the 50 years since the TV series appeared, there have been several attempts at a comic book adaptation, and none of them have been successful. I don’t know if any of them even made it a full run. I don’t see any reason why this series would buck that trend. Read Full Review

12cents

Apr 26, 2018

I can't really say there are any spoilers in this review, as the writer, Peter Milligan, spoils the major mystery of this story from the get-go. If you are old enough to remember the original series (as I am), you may very well be disappointed in this issue (as I am). The big problem with this new version is that The Village in which Patrick McGoohan's TV character awoke, is already a known entity by everybody, it seems, from the chief of The Unit (the name of the MI5 unit for which this new character works), down to ordinary field agents, like our protagonist, Agent Breen. This immediately eliminates the single most important plot point of the original series, of the hero waking up in a bizarre, unknown world, seeking answers to the que stions: Where am I? What is this place? How did I get here? WTF is going on? That makes no sense at all, especially the part where Breen volunteers to go into the Village to attempt a rescue. And when Breen eventually wakes to find himself in The Village (with him knowing that's where he is, no less), the reveal is totally lacking in any sense of wonder, trepidation, anticipation, or tension. For the reader, it's a gigantic nothing-burger. It's as if Alice went down the rabbit hole fully aware of what lay ahead. I would rate this book a 1, but for the fact that it is a 1st issue, and I don't know what Milligan has in mind, or whether my initial concerns may be assuaged in future issues. I will give him a slight benefit of a doubt and raise it to a 3. I will probably pick up one or two more issues, only because I want to give this series a chance to bring that sense of mystery and surrealistic intrigue of the original. Somehow, though, I do not feel hopeful. more