The Losers (Vol.1): Ante Up
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  • If You Can Survive the Art...
  • another amazing Vertigo title
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The Losers (Vol.1): Ante Up
Andy Diggle , and Jock
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ASIN: 1401201989

Book Description

In the hard-hitting tale of espionage and betrayal THE LOSERS: ANTE UP, an elite U.S. Special Forces unit is targeted for assassination when they unintentionally uncover the illegal and immoral practices of the C.I.A. Believed dead and with nothing to lose, the team of wet works operatives regroup and begin a mission of revenge against the organization that betrayed them.Only as the team goes after a corrupt oil conglomerate with ties to the C.I.A., do they truly begin to realize the depths of the conspiracy they have discovered and the impossible odds of survival that they face.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars If You Can Survive the Art..........2007-07-08

I've owned this book for several months now, but just recently read it. When I first purchased it I made it through about 4 pages and laid it down because the art is so absolutely horrid.

I'm glad I eventually went back to it though, because as everyone else has been shouting...it reall does play out better than any heist film Hollywood could pump out.

Interesting characters, cool plot and over-the-top action makes this a stand-out title.

Just get ready to self-interpret a lot of the art though because of the absolutely nonexistent skill of visual storytelling.

If the later volumes (which I've yet to read) snagged a better artist...this could easily be the best title on the market.

3.5 stars

5 out of 5 stars another amazing Vertigo title.......2006-03-29

Every volume to date has been like a big screen action movie. The perfect comic gift for fans of action novels like the Jack Ryan series, the classic 007 novels or heck, even he perfect gift for Father's Day.

If we had more comics like this instead of go-nowhere comics like Daredevil or Ultimate Spider-man, there might still be a market for western comics in the American mainstream.

5 out of 5 stars Hey, Hollywood, You Paying Attention?.......2006-01-06

The best way to summarize Ante Up is that it's a what a great action movie should be except on paper and with the extra goodness that comic books bring to you that movies can't (like an artist who's art can be described as stylish, cool (and not the MTV- forced cool), and original). It's a very good start to a series and immediately hooks you. At the same time, don't expect the next Watchmen or some other "classic" story. This is a good, solid story that will make you come back for more.

5 out of 5 stars A Gripping Read!!!.......2005-09-08

I initially picked up the first volume of this series because of the dynamically posed woman on the cover. Flipping through the book, I noticed interesting use of shadow and rough, yet structured art. While reading the summary, however; I became sceptical of the story. My initial thought was that of a story which has been told many times before - good guys who refuse to do what is asked of them, and in turn, are believed to be assassinated, only to later seek revenge for being exiled. Who hasn't heard that one already?
But once I began reading The Losers, I could not believe the rush I got. The story was action-packed and suspenseful. The whole graphic novel plays like a full-featured film that has one climactic moment after another.
Andy Diggle did a fantastic job writing dialogue which adds mystery, suspense and a dose of complexity that adds realism. Most of the action is very cinematic, yet believable, because the panels flow smoothly and interestingly. This composition makes for a very fluid read.
No other book on the stands compares to this one, especially if you enjoy CIA and government mysteries or if you just like good comics in general. I definitely recommend this volume and the others as well!

4 out of 5 stars The Losers.......2005-05-27

The Losers, once upon a time a Sgt. Rock-like DC imprint, has been resurrected in this vertigo published book but don't expect to find long lost friends in this particular incarnation. All that remains of them is the name. The new Losers are this generation's disenfranchised. "The Losers were a covert U.S. Special Forces unit seconded to the CIA" explains Diggle. "When they stumbled across one of the Agency's dirty little secrets and refused to play ball, the Agency had them assassinated. Except the Losers survived. Now they've gone rogue, and have declared war on the Agency which stabbed them in the back".
And while that may sound about as enticing and original as a Phil Collins ditty, Diggle proves that Mick Jagger was right - "it's the singer, not the song" because The Losers is loaded with the kind of snappy dialogue usually found in Ellis, Ennis and Bendis books or Tarantino movies.

And while you could say that Diggle's work is derivative, you could also say that he's quite good at capturing exactly what's interesting and attractive about the heist genre in the first place. His team consists of the typical characters - the tough as nails, one track mind, out for payback commander is there. The quiet, scarred, yet sure-handed and rock-solid sniper is there. The woman with a mysterious past is there. The nerdy, punky, computer hacker is there. The steady, straight man is there. The traitor is there. The ingenious planning and problem solving and the executions of the jobs that are never absent from caper movies... it's all there. And that's the book's strength. It is damned good at reinforcing the genre and it's damned good at telling the story with new voices. As a result, Diggle infuses new life into a teeming field of players and the once staid and stale is all of the sudden bright and tantalizing.

If you've read any other reviews of The Losers, you no doubt noticed that comparisons to caper movies abound. So please excuse my wholly unoriginal yet inevitable comparisons to the heist film genre but if something looks like an orange, smells like an orange and it taste like an orange, then goddammit, it's an orange. Or at least something that mimics an orange to a tee. The Losers manages to present itself in such a way as to provoke all kinds of comparisons to heist stalwarts "Three Kings", "Ocean's 11" and "Rififi". And there is really no other way to get around it - The Losers simply FEELS like a movie. As a matter of fact, it feels like a great movie. Like the sort of thing one expects, and usually gets from the likes of Soderbergh and Tarantino. And don't for a second think that this is my attempt at validating the black sheep of the entertainment world, comic books, through the use of another medium. The Losers has plenty of merit to stand on its own. The damned thing just feels like a great movie.
The Losers (Vol. 4): Close Quarters
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    The Losers (Vol. 4): Close Quarters
    Andy Diggle , and Jock
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    The Losers (Vol. 5): Endgame
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • The End
    The Losers (Vol. 5): Endgame
    Andy Diggle
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    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars The End .......2007-05-07

    A conclusion to the story. A few unrealistic scenarios but then this is the work of fiction ... Or is it... Andy Diggle and Jock have weaved and drawn fact and fiction so tightly that every conspiracy feels relevant and real. Who are Americas real enemies, foreign terrorist or American politicians who create these situations. One can only guess if and when a movie will be made
    The Losers (Vol. 2): Double Down
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • another amazing edition
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    Andy Diggle , Jock , and Shawn Martinbrough
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    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars another amazing edition.......2006-03-01

    This is yet another in a line of truly amazing comics for adults from DC.

    5 out of 5 stars One of the Top 5 Comic Books of 2004.......2004-12-02

    This is "Hollywood Blockbuster" done right. The A-Team with a Three Kings edge, Andy Diggle writes intelligent action entertainment better than anyone, and his cynical take on world affairs gives this series a realistic, sharp edge that's missing from most other stories in this genre. The characters may be a bit generic, but like a B-movie with A-list actors, Diggle's scripting lifts each of them above their stereoypical cores. And Jock? His jagged, bombastic artwork evokes the hyperactivity of a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. The Losers is my high-octane, not-feeling-the-least-bit-guilty pleasure every month and this collection of issues 7-12 is the perfect way to get a healthy dose of one of the best ongoing series in comics today.
    The Loser: A Novel
    Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
    • A trying read
    • For lovers of long mad monologues only...
    • style over substance
    • existence machine
    • The Loser
    The Loser: A Novel
    Thomas Bernhard
    Manufacturer: Vintage
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    ASIN: 1400077540
    Release Date: 2006-10-17

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    For music lovers, perfectionists, and estheticians, Thomas Bernhard's The Loser (1983) poses an irresistible drama of failed excellence. In 1953 three friends, among whom is the famed Glenn Gould, study with Horowitz. Rarely sleeping, hardly eating, they burn intensely with the white and ruthless flame of virtuosity. Only Gould ascends. But this is no conventional narrative--neat, action-driven, or linear. It opens with the specter of death--Gould's at 51, and a suicide. Art exalts even as it destroys, when the aspirant is found wanting. Both Wertheimer, the suicide, and the narrator turn their backs on their musical careers, thus triggering their process of "deterioration." What is the consequence of throwing it all away? And yet, what are the rewards of realized genius? After Gould becomes, indeed, Glenn Gould, the two friends go to visit him in Canada. "He had barricaded himself in his house. For life. All our lives the three of us have shared the desire to barricade ourselves from the world. All three of us were born barricade fanatics."

    Bernhard fans will recognize the restrained rant, the execution of an idea carried to a logical, caustic extreme. The rant creates, of the novel, a grand philosophical speculation: What is devotion to one's art? What is it to truly understand one's art and to not misuse one's gift? And, alas, The Loser can also be read as the profound consequence of perfectionism, whereby all efforts to create or execute anything of note are squashed in the critical mind's ruthless self-scrutiny. The narrator works, for example, on his Glenn Gould essay for nine years, grateful, in the end, that he has published nothing. "How good it is that none of these imperfect, incomplete works has ever appeared, I thought, had I published them.... [T]oday I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness." The one regenerative act seems to be that of self-destruction. Destruction, indeed, becomes the flip side of perfectionist rigor. Thomas Bernhard (1931-89) was his own unique genius and in The Loser, one of his most acclaimed novels, he creates a chilling portrait of tragic compulsion, teasing and testing our assumptions human behavior. --Hollis Giamatteo

    Book Description

    Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own.

    One of Bernhard's most acclaimed novels, The Loser centers on a fictional relationship between piano virtuoso Glenn Gould and two of his fellow students who feel compelled to renounce their musical ambitions in the face of Gould's incomparable genius. One commits suicide, while the other-- the obsessive, witty, and self-mocking narrator-- has retreated into obscurity. Written as a monologue in one remarkable unbroken paragraph, The Loser is a brilliant meditation on success, failure, genius, and fame.

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars A trying read.......2007-05-25

    I read through the first 90-100 pages of Thomas Bernhard's "The Loser" in one sitting. I enjoyed it that much. However, the second half of the novel was much harder for me to get through. "The Loser" is written as an unbroken, 170 page paragraph in monologue style told by a fictional student of piano virtuoso Glenn Gould about how Gould's greatness drove him and his friend, Wertheimer, to abandon their pursuit of the piano since they believed that they would never attain the greatness of their teacher and friend. The prose is dark, dismal, pessimistic and depressing. But the prose is also quite humorous. The first half of the novel is absolutely wonderful, but somehow, I could not easily navigate my way through the second half. The style of the novel changed from engaging to trying. Just getting through the prose seemed like an impossible task. The style of this novel is innovative and very interesting, but somehow, I could not stay engaged through the whole thing. Bernhard's rambling would have been far more easily tolerable in a shorter novel. The book is an interesting exploration of genius, obsession and greatness, but if you're like me, you may think that after 90 pages you've gotten the point and had enough.

    5 out of 5 stars For lovers of long mad monologues only..........2007-04-30




    Open to the first page, take a deep breath, and begin reading--if you do it just right, it'll be hard to stop until you reach the end of this extraordinary 170-page diatribe of envy, spite, self-loathing, and misanthropy that plumbs the depth of the narrator's all-inclusive contempt for life and practically everyone living it, including himself. We're talking a novel that is one uninterrupted paragraph from beginning to end, spoken by one character, who's not very reliable, and quite possibly entirely demented. It's as if one of the more troubled heroes of a Dostoyevsky novel escaped to deliver a monologue written by Samuel Beckett. That'll give you an approximate idea of the style of *The Loser,* which is definitely not for everyone, the novel being more about the labyrinthine workings of an obsessed mind than it is about the ostensible events of the so-called "plot." This plot--the intertwined fate of three young musicians, one of whom happens to be the famed piano artist Glenn Gould, and another who commits suicide--becomes the touchstone Bernhard uses to explore his themes of artistic ambition and the destructive power of genius, as well as the double-sided nature of friendship.

    Bernhard, like Beckett, was a playwright, and it shows in the intricate, serpentine "speech" the narrator delivers in *The Loser*--in fact, it might even be more rewarding if one were to read the text out loud to better "hear" the full intent of Bernhard's lush and cadenced "madman's" prose. For the novel is indeed a soliloquy: contradictory, ironic, by turns concealing and revealing, a confession that confesses the very impossibility of telling the absolute truth.

    *The Loser* is ultimately a novel for those who find language more intriguing than story, the mind's interior struggle for meaning more dramatic than physical incident. As such, it's a work of the first order. I cant recommend it highly enough.

    3 out of 5 stars style over substance.......2007-03-06

    Nothing great; the most distinctive feature of the book is the run-on sentences, and the fact that the whole thing is one long paragraph. The narrator's repetitions & constant returnings to things already said in earlier pages gets a bit tiring. The subject matter (failure, obsession, suicide) could have been approached in a more interesting, detailed way, but we just hear the narrator repeat the same things again & again, "Gould destroyed him, hearing Gould play was the end for him, after hearing him he couldn't go on..." etc. The Afterword tries to speak well of the author's reputation, but doesn't have much to say about _The Loser_ except how it's a comment on Austria and a semi-autobiographical exercise for Bernhard... Well, so what? I didn't read this to find out about Austria (which I didn't) or about Bernhard, so I find this book lacking (the Afterword even admits that most of Bernhard's works are re-workings of these same themes, so it sounds like this book is more of the same from Bernhard, which makes its repetitions seem all the more repetitious!). I wouldn't recommend it to any friends, and I wouldn't bother reading it again, so I give it 3 stars. The narrative style is entertaining at times, but seems a little superficial at others--as if he's not writing anything particularly deep, so he keeps distracting us with these run-on sentences.

    5 out of 5 stars existence machine.......2007-01-31

    This book is not about music, really, even though all 3 main characters are musicians, best piano performers in the world. The book belongs to this very specific genre I'd call "On Human Condition". The main work in this genre would be "Waiting for Godot", I guess, and "The Loser" is definitely in the same domain.

    It is not at the same level of abstraction as "Waiting for Godot", which does not make it any worse, though, because it considers human endeavour from somewhat different angle, comparing 3 types of personality - how they cope with failure and success, life. The "existence machine" concept, which "the loser" uses to describe his position in life, could be considered all-encompassing methapor, but Bernhard shows that it is not universal, that other people experience reality differently.

    Bernhard also very clearly shows that success can be experienced as failure, that everything is relative to the personal "settings" in one's mind. The book is full of subtle absurd ironies, it is tragic and funny, very European, idiosyncratic.

    5 out of 5 stars The Loser.......2000-04-12

    Even my friend Paul whom I work with, whom has won piano competitions, and played all over the town,including The Whitney, and knew what it was like to be a virtuoso, and whom after 42 years of playing the piano still has a desire to play, even though now he sells pianos more than he plays, and I who also sell pianos, and know them very, very well, though can't play them as well as Paul, but knows just as well what makes them good, and also what makes a good book, believes this book to be a new book. And what I mean by a new book is that this book has never before been written, except for maybe other books written by the author, but with different characters. That this book is not a sad book, even though it may seem as such, just as my friend Paul is not a sad man even though he may seem as such, and I, who may be the most sad of all, although one may think me to be the least sad when compared to my freind Paul, or even this book, I thought.
    League of Losers (Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 3)
    Average customer rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars
    • Ho hum.
    • So-so superhero outing
    League of Losers (Marvel Team-Up, Vol. 3)
    Robert Kirkman , and Cory Walker
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    Book Description

    The heroes of the Marvel Universe are no more. Spider-Man? Wolverine? Captain America? Iron Man? Gone - but the people of the world still need saving; they still need heroes. Make way for The League of Losers! Plus: The team-up you thought you'd never see! Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker's Invincible bounces over to the Marvel Universe for a visit! Collects Marvel Team-Up #14-18.

    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars Ho hum........2006-11-15

    I am sorry to say that there is nothing special here.
    A mildly interesting team up or two. Some romance.
    A very run-of-the-mill story with some continuity problems.

    Worth having at garage sale/thrift store prices. But even at Amazon's discounted price, I wouldn't call it a good value.

    It simply didn't appeal to me, and I am unlikely to read it a second time. Others may enjoy it.

    3 out of 5 stars So-so superhero outing.......2006-07-18

    This was okay, but given the calibre of Kirkman's other writing, a bit of a disappointment. The lighthearted, one-off team-up between teen heroes Invincible and Spider-Man is fairly flat, especially the goofball repartee between the two, which felt pretty forced. More successful was the fast-paced "League Of Losers" tale, in which (spoiler alert) an invasionary force from the future comes back to wipe out all the superheroes at once, and take over the world. The only metahumans left are the "Losers," minor leaguers who never made it into the history books and who, thus, were not in the databases used by the future-world baddies. It's a good premise, and filled with the sort of second-string super-dupes that filled the pages of the original '70s "Team Up". The execution was fairly entertaining as well, although I missed Scott Kollins' artwork. An okay read, not as engaging as the earlier Kirkman MTU stories.
    The Losers (Vol. 3): Trifecta
    Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    • Says you, hatstand.
    The Losers (Vol. 3): Trifecta
    Andy Diggle , Jock , and Ale Garza
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    ASIN: 1401204899

    Book Description

    The adventures of the hard-luck, black-ops band the Losers continue in this third volume. First, continuing to follow the traces left by the elusive CIA ghost known as Max, the Losers land in the tiny Persian Gulf kingdom of Qatar and gather some more first-hand intel about the War on Terror in Sheikdown; then, in Blowback, Aisha solos in Turkmenistan and throws a wrench in some oily works. Finally, Colonel Clay tells the full story of Operation Draw Venomthe debacle that killed the Losers and put them on Maxs trailin The Pass. When it comes to action-packed espionage, this TRIFECTA is a sure thing!

    Customer Reviews:

    4 out of 5 stars Says you, hatstand........2005-05-28

    The first thing I should tell you about Trifecta is that if you haven't already read the comics individually, only the last four issues of this compilation were drawn by Jock (16-19). 13 and 14 were drawn by Nick Dragotta, and 15 by Ale Garza. Just a word of warning. It's not like these two guest artists don't have skills, its just that Jock's artwork is what first attracted me to the series, and its why I keep coming back. But the issues he does draw are fantastic, Jock really seems to be getting a hang of this, delivering artwork thats even more stylized and cool than previous issues, while avoiding problems like the repeating of facial expressions (can you say eye squint) that distracted a little in the first compliation. Diggle's story in 16-19 (which concerns the last disasterous mission of the losers) also delivers, dialogue and character development are excellent, I especially liked seeing pre-betrayal Roque. So to sum up, a little dissapointed by guest artist issues, but overall the quality of 16-19 make it a good compilation.
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    5 out of 5 stars BEST BARGAIN EVER!!!!!.......2004-07-09

    This book is SO cool and has movie satires. Yes, you were amazed by Lord of the Rings... but you'll dia laughing at Bored of the Rings!!!! You were scared watching The Exorcist.... you'll giggle hysterically at The Eccchorcist!!!!! Oh, some of the movie satires are in colour, too.
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    • The Losers and High Hunt are not too bad....
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    The Losers / High Hunt: Two Complete Novels
    David Eddings
    Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 0517119080
    Release Date: 1994-08-20

    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars The Losers and High Hunt are not too bad...........2000-05-11

    "The Losers" is a contemporary novel that stars a man named Rapheal. Rapheal has all the positive aspects of life; good looks, intelligence, and athleticism. However, when he goes to college, he rooms with a man named Damon who represents all the negatives of society. Shortly after this meeting, Raphael has a severe accident that will forever change his life. Raphael moves away, and thinks nothing of his old life until Damon finds him again. This novel contains the classical motif of good versus evil.

    In "The High Hunt", the reader is introduced to a pair of brothers coming from a disfunctional family. Dan, who is the younger brother, has just been discharged from the Vietnam war. With nothing to do, Dan looks for his older brother Jack, who he has not seen in years. Dan is quickly taken in by Jack and Jack's friends. However, Jack's friends are not the most "politically correct" friends. A hatred grows between some of these friends, which culminates in a hunting trip high in the mountains. What happens when guns and hatred mix? Find out...it is an entertaining novel that does slip down into the decadence of society.

    5 out of 5 stars Tales of Introspection.......2000-03-27

    Well known for characters such as King Belgarion and Sir Sparhawk, David Eddings takes a step back away from fantasy into the world of non-fiction, revealing his commanding mastery of the English language in his two novels: The High Hunt and The Losers. At times hilarious, offensive, but always introspective and thought-provoking, the two novels lead the reader into an ever spiraling path of self-reflection. With witty commentary on the social customs of modern society and their affects on an individual, Eddings creates tales which are a must for those who consider themselves hardcore Eddings fan - allowing exposure to a side of the author that is merely hinted at in his fictional writings.
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      First Among Losers (Ridge Riders (Graphic Novels))
      Robin Lawrie , and Chris Lawrie
      Manufacturer: Stone Arch Books
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Library Binding

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      ASIN: 1598891251

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