This is volume one, so it's mostly just about setting up the situation and introducing the characters. Based on the end, we're going to get some important revelations in volume two. Now, I'm not at all opposed to the gore. I like to bathe in blood and run my fingers through the intestines of my enemies as much as the next girl. It is not unlike a Mark Millar comic, which I suppose isn’t that surprising, in that it pushes the adrenaline. In this, it is also hyper violent. We’re talking absurdly violent. Violent to the point that the eye starts to skip over it.

BRZRKR, vol. 1 - Collects #1-4. "The man known only as B. is half-mortal and half-God, cursed and compelled to violence…even at the sacrifice of his sanity. But after centuries, B. may have finally found a refuge – working for the U.S. government to fight the battles too violent and too dangerous for anyone else. In exchange, B. will be granted the one thing he desires: the truth about his endless blood-soaked existence…and how to end it." - MAY210997 - WorldCat - ISBN 9781684156856 - Kindle I love you, K-Reeves. I don't care if saying lines isn't your thing. You're a beautiful human being and I'll watch anything with you in it. Amen.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review* Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood (1986). He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and he reprised his role in its sequels. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break (1991) and Speed (1994). Huh...ok then. I've seen my GR friends talk about this comic (Anne actually drew my attention to it). So I read the first volume. It introduces this, so far, unnamed character who seems to be unkillable. He later implies he is immortal. BRZRKR is essentially what it is, but in that, it’s rather successful. There’s no doubt, a good reason for that is Ron Garney whose art takes the story to cinematic heights. Kindt finds a nice balance in the action to get some character and story in.

A WAR WITH NO END. The man known only as B. is half-mortal and half-God, cursed and compelled to violence…even at the sacrifice of his sanity. But after wandering the world for centuries, the Berzerker may have finally found a refuge – working for the U.S. government to fight the battles too violent and too dangerous for anyone else. In exchange, B. will be granted the one thing he desires – the truth about his endless blood-soaked existence…and how to end it. I would be interested in the story and the rest of this series, but seriously Keanu get a better artist. This looks like an amateur artist who was inspired by John Romita Jr. Not a good thing. So mediocre art, a decent enough story (for what is essentially a gore-fest opener) combine to make this a two star. Apparently, his mother prayed for a weapon to deliver her people from marauding tribes, and ended up with a lightning bolt to the twat that impregnated her with a BRZRKR baby. Jennings, Collier (2021-02-06). "BRZRKR #1 Is the Best Selling Comic Since Marvel's Star Wars #1 in 2015". CBR . Retrieved 2023-01-04. So we have BRZRKR a project starring Keanu as written by Keanu (with an assist from established comic writer Matt Kindt) surely pictured for the big screen.

That said, there are things that will take a good action movie and take it to being a great movie- characterization, dialogue, plot and though we are just at the beginning of the story, I don’t think we will get to that level. Starting on this volume, which contains the first third of a planned 12-issue series, I expected there to be close to no story, in a negative sense. The surprising thing is that I ended up wishing there was no story at all, with no narration and little dialogue, just gloopy oodles of ultraviolence.

This is a comic you better not expect too deep a story from. Which is fine by me. I was here for blood and gore and boy, did I get enough of that! BRZRKR, vol. 2 - Collects #5-8. "Half-mortal and half-god, cursed and compelled to violence, the man known only as B. begins wandering the world anew. After enduring a series of experiments and missions, B.'s memories of his origins will be finally restored. But what does this revelation mean for his future?" - MAY220365 - WorldCat - ISBN 9781684158157 So what’s the final verdict? Well, for starters, even at middle age, I still can cave into peer pressure (not that there was anything particularly dangerous about reading this comic. If anything, it was a nice palate cleanser after Tom King’s Strange Adventures). You see? So yes, this does feel like a storyboard for a Netflix series, and personally, I hate it when comics do that. Be a great comic first and foremost - don't be so desperate to be something else.Ever since then, people from various countries have tried to figure him out over the centuries because they wanna harness his genetic code, of course. The latest in this long line are the US government and their eggheads. But who knows what their real deal is. On March 22, 2021, Netflix announced it was developing a live-action film adaptation and a follow-up anime series based on the comics with Reeves cast as the lead. [10] In October 2021, Mattson Tomlin was writing the live-action film adaptation. [11] Anne, you seem to think this is a 20-minute read - so either your faculties are operating on a level far faster than my own, or you didn't even attempt to piece together a deeper meaning (or even coherent plot) in this book. I'm not saying there *are* such things in the story, but I *did* find it easier to get through this (it took me at least an hour) by assuming there's a bigger story to tell than "clawless Wolverine ravine-stomps every bipedal in existence". Buddy read with some of the best Goodreads buddies out there and my favorite comic nerds. - I've heard a lot of references to Old Guard: Opening Fire when it comes to premise and I think that's close enough. While I wasn't in love with that one either, it may have the more interesting premise. I didn't mind the endless violence (did the colourist get a clearout price on red ink?), but that's probably a problem too - this had as much bodily destruction as the Crossed, Vol. 1 bone-chattering fantasies of Garth Ennis, but nowhere near the psychopathological horror - just seemed like BRZRKR dude calculated it'd cost less energy to explode someone's jaw than to step slightly to the right while walking by them.