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Mad Max: Fury Road: Furiosa #1
Mad Max: Fury Road: Furiosa #1
High in the Citadel there exists a bio-dome of clean air and pure water, protected from the toxicity and anarchy of the Wasteland. Here the warlord Immortan Joe keeps his most prized possessions – his wives – imprisoned for his pleasure and his insistence that they bear him healthy male heirs.
Then, amid this cruel depravity, an unlikely rescuer emerges…the Immortan’s most lethal warrior: the Imperator Furiosa.
From the mind of George Miller, the creator of the Mad Max trilogy, the prelude miniseries to the upcoming film Mad Max: Fury Road continues!
Then, amid this cruel depravity, an unlikely rescuer emerges…the Immortan’s most lethal warrior: the Imperator Furiosa.
From the mind of George Miller, the creator of the Mad Max trilogy, the prelude miniseries to the upcoming film Mad Max: Fury Road continues!
40 pages, Unknown Binding
First published June 17, 2015
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George Miller AO is an Australian filmmaker best known for his Mad Max franchise, whose second installment, Mad Max 2, and fourth, Fury Road, have been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time, with Fury Road winning six Academy Awards. - Wikipedia
George Miller AO is an Australian filmmaker best known for his Mad Max franchise, whose second installment, Mad Max 2, and fourth, Fury Road, have been hailed as two of the greatest action films of all time, with Fury Road winning six Academy Awards. - Wikipedia
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July 13, 2015
Ever since I watched Mad Max: Fury Road in May, I've been obsessed with it. It's a fact that if I think about the movie for longer than 30 seconds, I'll find myself on a Furiosa high. So when I got to know about there being a prequel comic exploring the events right before the beginning of Mad Max: Fury Road, my excitement was off the charts. I mean, so off the charts that I didn't even think about the possibility that it might just suck, let alone be anything other than extraordinary.
Imagine the extent of my disappointment at my discovery that a 40-page long issue of a comic managed to undo everything that made Mad Max: Fury Road so fucking awesome. I will admit that I was a bit confused about all the rape panels when I was reading it, but I chose to give the comic a chance and only focused on the good parts. However, it's been a week since I read it and I only find myself getting enraged at the direction the team took this issue in. In other words, I simply cannot ignore the colossal clusterfuck that is this comic.
If you've watched the movie, you already know about the plight of the wives and how it was done spectacularly well without any need of any sexually explicative scenes whatsoever. The comic is a whole another thing entirely and I'm ashamed that it's even a part of Mad Max: Fury Road because it's a poorly represented prelude to the actual movie.
First off, showing rapes on panel. While the movie trusted its audience to understand the kind of dire situation the wives were in, the comic blatantly shows said dire situations; not once, not twice, but a few times. What even is that? I tried to get past it but damn it, those panels really cheapened the rapes in a way that's just gross and highly uncalled for. It's also very deeply unsettling.
Second, the extremely gendered portrayal of the relationships among the wives. It's one thing for the wives to be treated like they are, but pitting them against each other with quotes like 'What would you know?! You're his favorite.' is just. Not. Done. I'm so tired of the male gender putting female characters against each other and getting away with it. Of them having one of the wives say 'you've got no balls' to Furiosa and get away with it.
This comic not only puts focus on what was done to the wives, it also takes focus away from what they managed to do. This kind of double negative really pisses me off. Where is the friendship, where is their unconditional love and care for each other that made the wives so substantial? Why was it reduced to this sham of them being damsels in collective distress who desperately needed saving and regularly turned on each other?
Third, altering the entire character dynamic of Furiosa. Not much is known about Furiosa's backstory and this comic being about Furiosa totally missed its chance to expand on her in a positive light. Instead of countless other back stories the team could have chosen to go with, they chose to give her a past of sexual assault. Because yes, even the badassest of the badass female characters cannot be empowered unless they have rape for their backstory. Not only that, the wives are shown as being untrustworthy and doubtful of Furiosa because of her gender. Also, Furiosa backhands the brides for not being grateful to all the luxuries that being wives of Immortan Joe grants them. What the fuck? That's extremely gendered and insulting of the character Furiosa. It's a disservice that I absolutely do not stand for.
The amount of rape in this comic is so ridiculous that it's pro-rape culture. The vulgar language (the term 'rawdog' has been used), the bizarre supposition that it's better to live in luxury as a victim of sexual abuse than in adversity and free because one doesn't want to be a victim sexual abuse, the assumption that women are incapable of respecting each other and working together as equals. That it just takes a single panel for the wives to suddenly see Furiosa as strong, that one of the wives stating that being raped is the same as being 'infected by poison' and that virginity is to be seen as something pure and to be highly prized. There are just so many things wrong with this issue, I give up. 10/10 would not recommend.
Imagine the extent of my disappointment at my discovery that a 40-page long issue of a comic managed to undo everything that made Mad Max: Fury Road so fucking awesome. I will admit that I was a bit confused about all the rape panels when I was reading it, but I chose to give the comic a chance and only focused on the good parts. However, it's been a week since I read it and I only find myself getting enraged at the direction the team took this issue in. In other words, I simply cannot ignore the colossal clusterfuck that is this comic.
If you've watched the movie, you already know about the plight of the wives and how it was done spectacularly well without any need of any sexually explicative scenes whatsoever. The comic is a whole another thing entirely and I'm ashamed that it's even a part of Mad Max: Fury Road because it's a poorly represented prelude to the actual movie.
First off, showing rapes on panel. While the movie trusted its audience to understand the kind of dire situation the wives were in, the comic blatantly shows said dire situations; not once, not twice, but a few times. What even is that? I tried to get past it but damn it, those panels really cheapened the rapes in a way that's just gross and highly uncalled for. It's also very deeply unsettling.
Second, the extremely gendered portrayal of the relationships among the wives. It's one thing for the wives to be treated like they are, but pitting them against each other with quotes like 'What would you know?! You're his favorite.' is just. Not. Done. I'm so tired of the male gender putting female characters against each other and getting away with it. Of them having one of the wives say 'you've got no balls' to Furiosa and get away with it.
This comic not only puts focus on what was done to the wives, it also takes focus away from what they managed to do. This kind of double negative really pisses me off. Where is the friendship, where is their unconditional love and care for each other that made the wives so substantial? Why was it reduced to this sham of them being damsels in collective distress who desperately needed saving and regularly turned on each other?
Third, altering the entire character dynamic of Furiosa. Not much is known about Furiosa's backstory and this comic being about Furiosa totally missed its chance to expand on her in a positive light. Instead of countless other back stories the team could have chosen to go with, they chose to give her a past of sexual assault. Because yes, even the badassest of the badass female characters cannot be empowered unless they have rape for their backstory. Not only that, the wives are shown as being untrustworthy and doubtful of Furiosa because of her gender. Also, Furiosa backhands the brides for not being grateful to all the luxuries that being wives of Immortan Joe grants them. What the fuck? That's extremely gendered and insulting of the character Furiosa. It's a disservice that I absolutely do not stand for.
The amount of rape in this comic is so ridiculous that it's pro-rape culture. The vulgar language (the term 'rawdog' has been used), the bizarre supposition that it's better to live in luxury as a victim of sexual abuse than in adversity and free because one doesn't want to be a victim sexual abuse, the assumption that women are incapable of respecting each other and working together as equals. That it just takes a single panel for the wives to suddenly see Furiosa as strong, that one of the wives stating that being raped is the same as being 'infected by poison' and that virginity is to be seen as something pure and to be highly prized. There are just so many things wrong with this issue, I give up. 10/10 would not recommend.
August 10, 2016
If this comic book was supposed to be about giving the backstory to Furiosa's charachter, it was too damn vague. They allude to her having been a wife once, but they never really answer any questions, like: how did she rise to the rank of Imperator? How was her life like in the Green Place? Why does she want redemption? What happened to her left arm?
Seriously, one of the wives asks her about her arm at one point, and Furiosa answers: "Bad things happened." COME ON! GIVE US SOMETHING!
So, no backstory for Furiosa. This comic book is mainly about the wives, which I have no problems with, even though their life essentially amounts to rape, rape, rape, singing, crying, baths, rape, beatings, rape, attempted abortions, more rape. You know. The stuff I was glad wasn't in the movie.
I couldn't really get into the artwork, it looked rushed and unfinished, and most of the times I couldn't tell one wife from the other. As for the writing, the dialogues felt awkward and random, with the only good lines taken straight out of the movie.
Overall, just a sloppy comic. I didn't hate it, but was disappointed and wouldn't recommend reading it.
Seriously, one of the wives asks her about her arm at one point, and Furiosa answers: "Bad things happened." COME ON! GIVE US SOMETHING!
So, no backstory for Furiosa. This comic book is mainly about the wives, which I have no problems with, even though their life essentially amounts to rape, rape, rape, singing, crying, baths, rape, beatings, rape, attempted abortions, more rape. You know. The stuff I was glad wasn't in the movie.
I couldn't really get into the artwork, it looked rushed and unfinished, and most of the times I couldn't tell one wife from the other. As for the writing, the dialogues felt awkward and random, with the only good lines taken straight out of the movie.
Overall, just a sloppy comic. I didn't hate it, but was disappointed and wouldn't recommend reading it.
September 27, 2015
yikessssssss
this was painful to read
and i'll just leave this here
this was painful to read
and i'll just leave this here
June 25, 2015
If you're jonesing for more Furiosa, put down this book and go watch Fury Road again.
August 31, 2015
احداث تمهيدية قبل بداية القصة الاصلية وكيفية لقاء فيروسا بفتيات جو الخالد
من شاهد الفيلم سيجد فى هذة القصة و
Mad Max: Fury Road: Nux & Immortan Joe
بعض الاحداث و التوضيحات لشخصيات الفيلم
من شاهد الفيلم سيجد فى هذة القصة و
Mad Max: Fury Road: Nux & Immortan Joe
بعض الاحداث و التوضيحات لشخصيات الفيلم
January 5, 2016
The most invigorating and mind-blowing cinematic experience I've had all year (aside from SWTFA) was in watching Mad Max: Fury Road, a film that obliterated my expectations, by not only delivering a smart yet story-telling minimalist action film with surprising depth, diligence and innovation, but also gave us a heroine for the ages in the form of Imperator Furiosa, and treated the five young female characters at the center of its narrative with respect and thoughtfulness.
Which is why this comic "prequel" is so distressing to me.
First of all, the art is terrible, just terrible. So ugly. Second, the title's a cock tease: this will tell you next to nothing about Furiosa's much speculated backstory. Instead it focuses on the events that led up to the Five Wives escaping from the Citadel with Furiosa. That wouldn't be too bad if it didn't fall flat on its face while doing so.
Perhaps one of the most arresting things about Fury Road was it's themes of the toxicity of patriarchy, and it's depiction of female agency and solidarity. Here, in the comic, all that is stripped away to make room for a stereotypical rape/enslavement backstory that completely undermines not only the key elements of the film but also the established personalities, behaviors and relationships of the characters. Where are the five empowered young women of Fury Road, who took it upon themselves to escape by enlisting a female road warrior? Check any number of interviews by the actresses who played them: the subtext and ideas they were using to play their characters was far different from this dribble. For example, many of them stated that it was Splendid's idea to leave. In the movie, Miss Giddy outright says that it was the Wives who initiated their own escape by "begging" to go with Furiosa. Yet in the comic Furiosa basically shows up one night and herds them away.
The movie had enough respect for the audience for us to know that rape and captivity were intrinsically part of the Wives story without gratuitously dwelling upon it nor making it the defining point of their characters, and instead accorded them active and interesting roles to play; but in this adaptation, the Wives are reduced to traumatized victims, whose lives consist solely of rape and humiliating medical exams. The complexity of the characters, including Furiosa, is disregarded in favor of showing us, in the bluntest and most obtrusive way possible, how bad the Five Wives lives are at the Citadel. As if we didn't already know that. Furthermore, they make all characters unaccountably bitchy in the most sexist way possible because screw sisterhood! When Furiosa is assigned to protect the Wives from Rictus, their first reaction is to revile her specifically because she's female. "Is it a woman?" Cheedo asks. Ugh.
When Splendid attempts a self-abortion with a coat hanger instead of, I don't know, stopping her because she could seriously hurt herself, Furiosa is angry that she'd dare do such an ungrateful thing and with how seemingly melodramatic the Wives are being. She rages nonsensically at how they aren't grateful for being raped on a daily basis and treated like objects when others are without food, water and shelter. All this coming from someone who is hinted to have a rape in her history as well! Because apparently a woman can't be strong without having rape in her background. All this coming from Furiosa, who was stolen from her matriarchal paradise and wound up in indentured servitude to a man she loathes! What the f@#k, how does that make any sense?? Totally out of character and inconsistent with the story.
Furiosa is made into a downright bastard. I understand that in the original narrative she doesn't want to get attached to the Wives and she's helping them escape due more to personal vengeance than a genuine desire to help them. Charlize Theron said as much in interviews about her character. But even so, that hardly translates to the shoddy way she treats the Wives here. I never once got the sense that contempt was part of their dynamic, not before or after. And even if it was, showing us that by having Furiosa berate a woman after she attempts to abort a forced pregnancy, and Capable scolding Furiosa for "not having the balls" to care about them, is loathsome and not the way to go about demonstrating Furiosa's motivations.
You know what's also inconsistent? Angharad being portrayed as making peace with baring her rapists child and even comforting The Dag over her pregnancy by saying that her child will be "beautiful just like her." Rose Whitely-Huntington, who played her in the movie, stated that she wanted to honor the multifaceted conflicts that a woman forced to carry a baby she doesn't want would have by showing that Angharad was ambivalent and confused over what she felt. We get none of that conflict in the comic. Capable is made into an absolute bitch that completely flies in the face of the compassion and empathy she so readily displayed in the film, Toast is given nothing to do, and The Dag's major role is to protecting Cheedo from the Immortan's interest by repeating an age old myth about rape, that when you are assaulted you are somehow "tainted". She is then subsequently punished with excessive brutality, and it all feels so pointless. Depressing, not what I want to see it at all. The comic even depicts the reason the Wives rebelled was due to the ideas implanted in their head from the education they received and their contact with Furiosa, who in the words of the texts gave them an example of what a woman was capable of. Apparently they didn't even write the awesome fuck you's of "OUR BABIES WILL NOT BE WARLORDS". That was Miss Giddy. Once again, this flies in the face of established canon! "We are not things" were Splendid's words, not Giddy's.
In the end, the Wives are nothing but victims who can't think for themselves, the women do not have compassion for one another, Furiosa is inexplicably bitter towards the Wives and known character traits are thrown out the window for convenience's sake. Do yourself a favor and forget this story exists.
Which is why this comic "prequel" is so distressing to me.
First of all, the art is terrible, just terrible. So ugly. Second, the title's a cock tease: this will tell you next to nothing about Furiosa's much speculated backstory. Instead it focuses on the events that led up to the Five Wives escaping from the Citadel with Furiosa. That wouldn't be too bad if it didn't fall flat on its face while doing so.
Perhaps one of the most arresting things about Fury Road was it's themes of the toxicity of patriarchy, and it's depiction of female agency and solidarity. Here, in the comic, all that is stripped away to make room for a stereotypical rape/enslavement backstory that completely undermines not only the key elements of the film but also the established personalities, behaviors and relationships of the characters. Where are the five empowered young women of Fury Road, who took it upon themselves to escape by enlisting a female road warrior? Check any number of interviews by the actresses who played them: the subtext and ideas they were using to play their characters was far different from this dribble. For example, many of them stated that it was Splendid's idea to leave. In the movie, Miss Giddy outright says that it was the Wives who initiated their own escape by "begging" to go with Furiosa. Yet in the comic Furiosa basically shows up one night and herds them away.
The movie had enough respect for the audience for us to know that rape and captivity were intrinsically part of the Wives story without gratuitously dwelling upon it nor making it the defining point of their characters, and instead accorded them active and interesting roles to play; but in this adaptation, the Wives are reduced to traumatized victims, whose lives consist solely of rape and humiliating medical exams. The complexity of the characters, including Furiosa, is disregarded in favor of showing us, in the bluntest and most obtrusive way possible, how bad the Five Wives lives are at the Citadel. As if we didn't already know that. Furthermore, they make all characters unaccountably bitchy in the most sexist way possible because screw sisterhood! When Furiosa is assigned to protect the Wives from Rictus, their first reaction is to revile her specifically because she's female. "Is it a woman?" Cheedo asks. Ugh.
When Splendid attempts a self-abortion with a coat hanger instead of, I don't know, stopping her because she could seriously hurt herself, Furiosa is angry that she'd dare do such an ungrateful thing and with how seemingly melodramatic the Wives are being. She rages nonsensically at how they aren't grateful for being raped on a daily basis and treated like objects when others are without food, water and shelter. All this coming from someone who is hinted to have a rape in her history as well! Because apparently a woman can't be strong without having rape in her background. All this coming from Furiosa, who was stolen from her matriarchal paradise and wound up in indentured servitude to a man she loathes! What the f@#k, how does that make any sense?? Totally out of character and inconsistent with the story.
Furiosa is made into a downright bastard. I understand that in the original narrative she doesn't want to get attached to the Wives and she's helping them escape due more to personal vengeance than a genuine desire to help them. Charlize Theron said as much in interviews about her character. But even so, that hardly translates to the shoddy way she treats the Wives here. I never once got the sense that contempt was part of their dynamic, not before or after. And even if it was, showing us that by having Furiosa berate a woman after she attempts to abort a forced pregnancy, and Capable scolding Furiosa for "not having the balls" to care about them, is loathsome and not the way to go about demonstrating Furiosa's motivations.
You know what's also inconsistent? Angharad being portrayed as making peace with baring her rapists child and even comforting The Dag over her pregnancy by saying that her child will be "beautiful just like her." Rose Whitely-Huntington, who played her in the movie, stated that she wanted to honor the multifaceted conflicts that a woman forced to carry a baby she doesn't want would have by showing that Angharad was ambivalent and confused over what she felt. We get none of that conflict in the comic. Capable is made into an absolute bitch that completely flies in the face of the compassion and empathy she so readily displayed in the film, Toast is given nothing to do, and The Dag's major role is to protecting Cheedo from the Immortan's interest by repeating an age old myth about rape, that when you are assaulted you are somehow "tainted". She is then subsequently punished with excessive brutality, and it all feels so pointless. Depressing, not what I want to see it at all. The comic even depicts the reason the Wives rebelled was due to the ideas implanted in their head from the education they received and their contact with Furiosa, who in the words of the texts gave them an example of what a woman was capable of. Apparently they didn't even write the awesome fuck you's of "OUR BABIES WILL NOT BE WARLORDS". That was Miss Giddy. Once again, this flies in the face of established canon! "We are not things" were Splendid's words, not Giddy's.
In the end, the Wives are nothing but victims who can't think for themselves, the women do not have compassion for one another, Furiosa is inexplicably bitter towards the Wives and known character traits are thrown out the window for convenience's sake. Do yourself a favor and forget this story exists.
June 18, 2015
Like "Mad Max Fury Road Immortan Joe & Nux #1" I really enjoyed this! This issue gives some backstory for everyones favorite imperator Furiosa and the brides of Immotan Joe. We get to see Immortan Joe and his hulk-like son Rictus Erectus. The story begins after the events of Mad Max Fury Road. And shows the old storyteller telling the story of Immortan Joe's Breeders, his five wives. I'm a big fan of the movie. It was one of the best cinematic experiences I've ever had. And it's great that they are doing these comics to flesh out the story. Especially with George Miller himself working on the story.
The art and coloring are just beautiful! In some of the panels it's like you're watching Charlize Theron or Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. I highly recommend this to everyone who is a fan of the movie and it's characters!
The art and coloring are just beautiful! In some of the panels it's like you're watching Charlize Theron or Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. I highly recommend this to everyone who is a fan of the movie and it's characters!
April 1, 2016
The characters felt flat and not at all like they did in the film. It way trying too hard to be tie-in without giving us any more actual story or character development. Basically told a story that didn't need to be told.
Update: 4/1/16 almost a year later and I still lose sleep thinking about how awful this was.
Update: 4/1/16 almost a year later and I still lose sleep thinking about how awful this was.
October 2, 2016
I know this is supposed to be a prequel (one of many) to "Mad Max Fury Road" but it seemed to me to be not much more than what we saw of Furiosa in the film (which I liked very much). And what little we did see over and above the film closes in on porn. I'm no prude, but is this the place for some of this?
June 20, 2015
It captures the feel of the movie well. I liked getting to see how Furiosa meets the wives, and how their interactions nudge Furiosa towards where they are at the beginning of the movie. I'd love to learn more about Florida's backstory.
June 18, 2015
Epic.
no other words necessary.
no other words necessary.
December 22, 2017
No-
Everything about this is a No-
Did these men (and they are all men) even see the movie or read the screenplay?
Everything about this is a No-
Did these men (and they are all men) even see the movie or read the screenplay?
January 7, 2024
Despite being called "FURIOSA #1", this is more a story of the Five Wives of Immortan Joe. Short, but brutal, story of The Wives lives within the Citadel, with a little bit of Furiosa backstory spinkled in (which is already kind of provided within FURY ROAD itself), but with the upcoming FURIOSA movie in May 2024, that's okay. George Miller has always wanted to do a movie of Furiosa, pre-FURY ROAD and I'm totally okay with the whole story not being revealed in a 30-ish page prequel comic.
Short, brutal but with sprinkles of hope that leads DIRECTLY into FURY ROAD itself.
Short, brutal but with sprinkles of hope that leads DIRECTLY into FURY ROAD itself.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 29, 2024
I wonder if Miller will use any of the material here for the "Furiosa" movie. I'm not sure how I feel about watching a prequel to Fury Road yet, since it's already Furiosa's movie and we already know what happens, but honestly I can't wait, I 'm so excited!
February 25, 2018
So as a prequel to the film, it was fine. But it was much more about the wives than Furiosa.
June 2, 2020
Uma hq da personagem que roubou a cena em Mad Max. Aqui vemos um pouco de como as mulheres que eram presas por Immortan Joe para dar-lhe filhos saudáveis surgiram, e como se rebelaram.
September 24, 2015
Okay, I get it. I do. I get why some of these things happen, and it might not just be for reasons. But this isn't the Furiosa I built up in my head. I know, I know - shouldn't do that headcanons are only headcanons and can be problematic blah, blah. Except this was really just disappointing...
I understand that Furiosa was taken as a child and being forced to grow up in that cult environment would make her actually follow/love (?) Joe. But yelling at the wives? Calling them spoiled? I don't know... for some reason I imagined Furiosa ALWAYS hating Joe. Hating him from the moment she was taken and slowly biding her time until she could actually escape.
One thing that the film did so well was not show any sexual violence but make it clear what the wives had gone through. And yet... this comic is kind of full of this. It doesn't feel like Mad Max. It feels like another one of those generic action films which is painfully full of testosterone (and this is coming from someone who loves all those dudebro films and doesn't always mind when a woman is just there to be hot... this though, is just gross).
It also pits the wives against each other. Which does make some sense, I guess but what made them so powerful was their bond shown in the film. The world keeps crying out for positive portrayals of females, and wants positive female relationships in the media and this comic rips all of that away. All that the film achieved is gone.
At one point Furiosa actually hit's one of the wives and tells them they should be grateful because they live in luxury. And of course what is Furiosa's actual backstory - RAPE. It's even implied she's a failed wife at some point (...which if so makes no sense, wouldn't Joe just kill her then? Or give her to the War Boys?).
I could go on and on about how freaking awful this comic is. How it seems to be almost pro rape culture. But I'll just link to the Mary Sue article instead. Because if I keep thinking about this I'll just want to smack things myself.
I'm not a raging feminist or anything. I don't believe women need to blow things up to be strong (as shown by the movie), I don't want women to be better than men or anything and I get that in this world women would be seen as lesser so bad things happen to them.
But this... this...
I can't even put into words how messed up and awful this comic is!
As another reviewer has already said if you want more Furiosa go watch the movie again, and forget this comic exists. This isn't our Furiosa, this isn't the hero of the movie - this is just... no.
I'm too disappointed by this to even be angry. I feel betrayed.
(And wow, I think this is the first time I've ever given anything a 1)
September 12, 2015
Oh come on!? Aren´t you ashamed for your miserable rating? I believe this one is the best comics from Mad Max series so far. To be honest Furiosa is a badass character, she´s awesome. But somehow I am really happy it was about wives and not about her background. Seriously? You witnessed glorious naked shiny and chrome butt of your redeemer Immortan Joe´s. The privilege of few, and you are not satisfied? ;D
Jokes aside. 5 stars for me, just to anger all those haters ,because there is nothing disappointing in this piece. Mad Max´s comic duo was far worse than this one. I did not have the feel that death of Glory the Child from the book should have had such an haunting impact on Max as depict in the film.
Jokes aside. 5 stars for me, just to anger all those haters ,because there is nothing disappointing in this piece. Mad Max´s comic duo was far worse than this one. I did not have the feel that death of Glory the Child from the book should have had such an haunting impact on Max as depict in the film.
June 23, 2015
A little disappointing. The art work and the visual flow between panels and pages is a bit chaotic. The story is fine, but there's no surprises here - it's a lot more about the breeders than Furiosa - and really only focuses on a bit of story just before the film that could be sorta assumed anyway. There was nothing about how Furiosa really entered the world of the Citidel, lost her arm etc, came to be Furiosa. But perhaps Miller is reserving that mythology for the next pic, which is fine by me. 7/10
August 22, 2015
Was initially excited to get a chance to read a backstory on Furiosa but this is not her story, instead we get to see the inside working of the Harem of Immortal Joe, hardly a subject to get excited about. Also the way they characterize her in the comic is unlike what we see in the movie, disappointment.
April 10, 2016
George Miller is testing my patience. He said that he had a whole backstory for every single thing, object, character thats in the film and he couldn't even tell us how Furiosa lost her left arm!! This was a very blunt backtory, still enjoyable but shows as little insight as possible. How did she become an Imperator? When was she one of the wives? How did she "escape"? I guess we'll never know.
October 1, 2015
For me, the weakest entry of the run. Although it makes some sense with the movie, the allusions to Joe's homosexuality, the bickering between the girls, the allusion to Furiosa being an ex-wife and then turned nanny... They fell out of place, considering the movie.
June 24, 2015
Very frustrating. This comic undermined many of the aspects I found to be most laudable about the film.
June 27, 2015
Decent background on why Furiosa rescued the breeders. Would still rather watch the movie again, though.
July 11, 2015
Very interesting. I still want more of her backstory but these delightful teases were pretty good. I just want more and more and more of this world.
July 24, 2015
Disappointing on all levels.
July 24, 2015
I was hoping this book would shed light on Furiosa's past, but only did so scantily. The artwork was messy.
April 27, 2020
TE CUENTA COMO FURIOSA CONOCIO A LAS ESPOSAS.
August 31, 2015
Short prequel to the movie, showing how Furiosa came to her decision to free the wives.
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