Comments on: Sleeper: Out in the Cold http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/ Independent Opinions on Comics of All Kinds Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mandar http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-102697 Mandar Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:43:05 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/#comment-102697 This book is depressing ???? I read it, the series felt heart-breaking to me. Yet makes you want to read on…

]]> By: Comics Worth Reading http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-1834 Comics Worth Reading Thu, 30 Mar 2006 20:42:16 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/#comment-1834

[...] The writer, Ed Brubaker, has a website. He has also written Scene of the Crime, an Eisner-nominated mystery illustrated by Michael Lark; Sleeper: Out in the Cold, a superhero noir about spies and traitors illustrated by Sean Phillips; and Gotham Central, stories of the cops in Batman’s city, co-written with Greg Rucka. [...]

]]> By: Dan Coyle http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-676 Dan Coyle Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:12:24 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/#comment-676 It’s way too impressed with its own darkness, like a Tom Fontana show. For me the Jump the Shark moment came when he discovered evidence that could prove he was a double agent, but he burned it because he said he couldn’t use it, but it seemed more like he was enraged that Lynch had kept it a secret from him.

And the eventual ending was just too miserable for words.

There was a time I really liked Ed Brubaker’s work.

]]> By: Johanna http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-671 Johanna Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:08:13 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/#comment-671 It’s violent and nihilistic, which is why I didn’t keep up with it. I get enough of the message “nothing matters” in daily life to want more of it in my entertainment.

It does seem to have been something of a nine days’ wonder, too — everyone talked about it while it was out, but no one does now that it’s ended.

]]> By: Michael Denton http://comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/comment-page-1/#comment-663 Michael Denton Sun, 22 Jan 2006 02:07:23 +0000 http://www.comicsworthreading.com/2006/01/21/sleeper-out-in-the-cold/#comment-663 Everybody talks about how good this series is, but I could never get into it for some reason. I’m not sure what made me so uninterested, though.

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