It seemed we were waiting ages for this one. There's basically three editions of it
The online edition, which is free on the author's website.
The Indy Planet Edition, which is from an independant, print on demand company
And the Subterreanen Press edition, which will be coming out in August
This reveiw is for the Indy Planet Edition
First of all, the art is pretty good, if a bit dark in places (I mean the colouring, not the story, though it is grim). I quite like the art and want to see more from the artist. However, I think that the graphic novel could have been longer, as it seems that a lot of it was edited out and things would have been explained better if there had been more text in it. For the art alone I would have given it three stars and for the story one star (which would have made it four stars in total).
Now on to the binding/printing part of it - I don't like the cover - (the artwork is fine, though) because it's glossy and you leave messy finger prints all over it. A matte cover would have been better. The binding is particuraly poor - there's an excellant two-page spread of Elena which depicts her trying to escape which is well excecuted in the online pdf version, but which is ruined in the Indy Planet version by cutting off half the centre. The same also happens to the picture of Clay as a wolf over two pages. The paper quality is poor as is the actual printing, as the ink doesn't seem to bond well onto the paper, espeacially the black ink as it's patchy. At the end, there's a series of experimental art for the comic which wasn't used because it came out wrong, and a step by step walk through of how the cover image was made. I like the art, but I don't like the way it's been laid out on the page. It's almost as if someone put it together in a Word program and looks tacky. In short, the presentation of the graphic novel by Indy Planet really lets the comic down.
Yeah, you can get a luxuary edition from Sub Press, but the length of the story doesn't really justify the cost ($45 in the US, £27 in the UK, plus £10 shipping, making it £37. (Don't know how much it is for US shipping).
So for the binding/printing of the comic, I give it two starts out of five and overall, three stars. Bear in mind that it would have been four overall had the quality of the printing had been better. For those of you considering the Sub Press edition, I would read it online first to see if you think the story is worth the money for a luxuary edition, which I don't think it is.