Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere

Amazing story from Neil Gaiman, again! Incredible art fitting the original story. This has become one of my ALL time fave. Just completed my 5th time reading it, in 3 years! That's my method.😉🤩Read it you won't be sorry!

This is a good enough read, but there were too many differences between it and the novel, for my liking.I'm sure many others will give it 5 stars all around. Just, not me.

This tale has it all— family, love, betrayal, redemption and pretty drawings.I read it from time to time to remind myself humanity is full of hurt and love and adventure. A life worth living

The beautiful artwork is wonderful, and the graphics condense the storyline while holding it all together. One of my favorite stories.

I like it, got to relive some parts of the book 📚 and also got to enjoy revisions of the story but thoroughly enjoyed😆

Not quite as satisfying as reading the whole thing and if you read the whole thing as many times as I have you'll notice when pieces get left out, like the sisters, but all in all a great representation.

I've read the book, which was fantastic, and how to see the story made into art, just fantastic!Neil has such a spectacular mind and the artist for this series is superb.An excellent read.

If you're into dark comedy / science fiction-fantasy-horror - this is for you! Neil Gaiman does it again. Brilliantly crafted

good book

My eye was immediately drawn to the negative reviews when deciding whether or not to buy this book but decided to buy it anyway. I have to say that perhaps I'm not a purest because I like this production, as the writer says in the preface it is not a straight adaptation of the novel but a sort of "jazz riff" of the novel. This is clearly an acknowledgement that the writer felt there would be a mixed reaction, he acknowledges changes, that there have been ommissions, that narrator is the protagonist and not a third person narration like the novel.I did think that Lady Door's appearence is different from I imagined it, she is older, has this weird keyhole tattoo over her eye and dresses in much more of a "circus, circus" fashion than I imagined, likewise I could not believe what the artist has made of De Carabas which is like something akin to the Cheshire Cat!! The companion provided by the Rat King is bizarre and the weird appearence became a focus for me, so I didnt feel the same when they met their fate as I did reading the novel and I remember this being pretty emotionally provocative in the novel. Which is a shame. Likewise the weapons master who the villains seek out and who winds up fighting Hunter is more of a eastern martial arts affecado or too Bruce Lee, in the book I had a definite idea that he was a hulking, positively medieval and western figure.On the other hand I do believe that the two main villains are rendered totally masterfully, likewise Hunter, which I have seen twice portrayed differently (once in the BBC production and once by a fantasy artist which was apparently Gaiman's own approved image) and not as well. The necrophilious and abjectly evil character of the villains transfers well and scenes I was sure would be omitted which conveyed this in the book, for instance eating a ornate antique vase to remove it from existence, are reproduced just how I imagined it.One thing I would say is that I dont believe any of the adaptations, as TV series or graphic novel, achieved were to depict the world of London below. I always imagined it as a more frightening place than any succeeded in portraying, magical and fantastic but full of desperate, mad and murderous elements. Reading Gaiman the narrative always, for me, begs the question as to whether one or more of the characters is delusional, if so I would believe that the fantastical element would be more unnerving and less "circus, circus". This could be my own, unique perspective though.The summary graphic novel will no doubt be considered with mixed emotions by fans of the novel, there are points which will please and delight and others which may disappoint but overall I believe that if you are a fan of Gaiman's books, or the comics he is associated with, you will like this one. If you are unfamiliar with either the novel of Gaiman you could still like this graphic novel, you probably would be motivated to read the novel even, fans of the  Fables: Legends in Exile (Vertigo)  series or  Spawn Collection Volume 1: v. 1  series would particularly like it. Fables: Legends in Exile (Vertigo)Spawn Collection Volume 1: v. 1

A book that I didn't want to end....but that I had to keep reading. Brilliantly illustrated, characters to care about.

The plot is enough to make it an experience on its own. Choosing Richard as the narrator plus protagonist makes for a new perspective on Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere". The definition of the characters, their motivations, their approach to the events in the story, the ever present violence in every scene, the decadence of London Below and it's inmates (or inhabitants or dwellers if you prefer) are superb. Then, there are the dialogs, which, as I hinted in my headline, defy the deceivingly simple task of allocating adjectives which suit them well.The art in this graphic novel is outstanding too. It makes you wonder, at every scene, at every angle if you had understood anything at all.Read this and envoy it,... ay your own risk. I think you won't regret it.

Every now and again you come across a graphic novel that is a pleasure to read. Absolutely loved this,the characters are so well rounded. Just beautiful.