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Polar Volume 1: Came from the Cold (Second Edition) Kindle & comiXology

by Victor Santos (Author, Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition
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The basis of a Netflix Original Movie!

Ripped out of retirement by an assassination attempt, the world's most deadly spy--the former agent known as Black Kaiser--is a wanted man that's wanted . . . dead! On a collision course with his former employer, the Damocles Agency, Black Kaiser goes head to head with a stab-happy, psychotic torture expert and a seductive but deadly redhead. His mission only ends if he dies or kills everyone out to get him, and he's not in the habit of dying.

A guns-blazing espionage action-adventure in the grand tradition of Jim Steranko and Frank Miller, this graphic novel by Victor Santos (Mice Templar, Filthy Rich) is a brutal, fast-tempo story of revenge that Newsarama says is "as ice-cold as its name." Originally a silent webcomic, but Santos has crafted a script as hard boiled and intriguing as his art for this hardcover collection.
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About the Author

Victor Santos, born in Valencia, began his career in 1998 by contributing to fanzines and local papers. His first professional work was 'Gaijin', published from 2000 by 7 Monos, Dude Comics and Dolmen Editorial. He also took on the heroic fantasy series 'Los Reyes Elfos', and an anthology of short stories called 'La Doncella y los Lobos'. Santos has cooperated on the 'Pulp Heroes' saga at Astiberri, did the superhero comic 'Protector' (Dolmen), a juvenile comic called 'Aventuras en el Mundo Jung' (Aleta Ediciones), and fantasy titles like 'Faeric Gangs' (Astiberri) and 'Lone in Heaven' (Aleta). For the French publisher Soleil, he created the series 'Young Ronin', for which he does script, art and colors.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07G6NDSYC
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse Books; 2nd edition (January 29, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 197239 KB
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Born in Valencia in 1977, Victor Santos has written and illustrated a variety of

comics published in Spain and France, including Los Reyes Elfos (The Elf Kings),

Pulp Heroes, Young Ronins, Lone in Heaven, Rashomon, Sukeban Turbo and Black Kaiser.

Santos has illustrated numerous comics in the United States, Azzarello’s New York Times best-selling Filthy Rich, one of the first titles of DC Comics’ Vertigo Crime line, the fantasy epic The Mice Templar, written by Bryan J. L. Glass and Michael Avon Oeming, James Patterson’s New York Times best-selling Witch & Wizard series, as well as different titles like Furious, Black Market, Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters, Sleepy Hollow or Big Trouble in Little China.

His last works are the Image comics series Violent Love with Frank Barbiere and the oncoming Bad Girls, written by Alex de Campi for Simon & Schuster.

Meanwhile, Santos has continued his career as a writer in Spain with other

artists, creating the graphic novels Silhouette, Ragnarök, La sangre de las Valkirias (The Blood of the Valkyries), Ezequiel Himes: Zombie Hunter, La Hija de la Tormenta (The Storm´s Daughter) and Infinity Outrage.

His Polar trilogy published by Dark Horse, his most personal project to date, has been adapted by awarded videoclip/movie director Jonas Akerlund, with Mads Mikkelesen (Casino Royal, Hannibal, The Hunt, Roge One: A Star Wars story), Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical, Spring Breakers) Katheryn Winnick (Vikings) and Matt Lucas (Alice in Wonderland, Dr Who) in a Constantin films/Netflix production.

Santos has won six awards at the Barcelona international comic convention

for his work and three at the Madrid comics convention. In 2014 he was nominated to the prestigious Harvey Award for his work in Polar: Came from the cold.

He lives in Bilbao, Spain.

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Roberto C Ortega
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read.
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2023
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Highly recommended it you love this genre. Comparable to red and the killer. I was hooked from the very first pages
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4.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyed this thriller!
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2020
I liked the Netflix version of Polar. Which LED me to this story. Tough to kill this senior citizen! Loved the art and the characters. Looking for more Polar stories.☺
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Selu
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesomeness
Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2022
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As I already adore the movie, I’m happy to read this. It’s quite enjoyable and well drawn. I look forward to, “The Black Kaiser”.
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Peggye M.
1.0 out of 5 stars Polar
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
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Was a cartoon book. I expected a novel.
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Mike Hagen
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved this comic
Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2019
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I bought this because I saw the movie on Netflix and it is great. It's easy to see where the movie got its inspiration but the comic definitely is different enough and amazing and warrants reading as well. The pages are crisp and the animation style is visually beautiful.
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Adam
5.0 out of 5 stars This isn’t the movie, but it’s worth the price of admission
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2019
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Great comic. I loved the movie and so I wanted to read the comic that inspired it. I’m not disappointed.
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David
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Art
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2019
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The art in this book is absolutely stunning.
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Samiam
5.0 out of 5 stars Great buy for the comic fan!
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2019
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Excellent graphics!
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J. Kay
4.0 out of 5 stars Lotsa fun!
Reviewed in Canada on May 22, 2020
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Good read love the art work. A nice filler for the movie, which was good but should have followed the book a bit more.
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P. NEWTON-PALMER
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 3, 2020
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For such a short read, it was like watching a big movie. Left me wanting more.
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Giorgio ruffoni
5.0 out of 5 stars Avvincente
Reviewed in Italy on January 9, 2020
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Bellissima storia. Avevo gia visto il film ma il fumetto ha quel qualcosa di più.
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Telephunky
3.0 out of 5 stars Toller Zeichenstil, keine Handlung
Reviewed in Germany on June 25, 2019
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Man kann diese s.g. grafic novel trotz ihrer 100 Seiten in 30min lesen. Das Original war ein stummer Webcomic (kein Text), der für die Buchversion durch einige Sprechblasen ergänzt wurden. Diese sind sparsam eingefügt, was gut ist, es erhält den Stil, überbrückt aber die ein oder andere sonst schwierig zu verstehende Szene, auf der anderen Seite suggeriert es eine tiefere Handlung, diese lässt sich jedoch in einem Satz abreißen und die Sprechblasen machen es allzu einfach, dem Text zu folgen, statt sich die Information mühsam aus dem Bild zu saugen. Eine "Novel" liegt hier sicher nicht vor.
Die Bilder sind sehr beeindruckend, Victor Santos liefert ein Meisterwerk des Framings.
Durch Kontraste der drei exklusiven Farben Rot, Schwarz, Weiß, gelingt ihm eine Blickführung sondergleichen, die Idee erinnert mich an Picasso oder Duchamp, mehrere Blickwinkel, Bewegung oder Perspektive in einem Bild darzustellen - ohne den Kubismus natürlich - und es ist sehr befriedigend, ein Bild zu betrachten und in den Details immer mehr Handlungselemente wiederzufinden. Rahmen werden mal als klassische Trennlinien zwischen Perspektiven oder Zeitabschnitten gesetzt, mal blickt man durch die Rahmen, wie durch ein Fenster auf eine große Szene und sie dienen erneut der gekonnten Blickführung.
Wie zurecht von einigen Kritikern bemerkt, hält Santos die prominenten Charakteristika, Gesichtszüge zum Beispiel, nicht konsequent durch und scheint nur einen Typ Frau zeichnen zu können oder darstellen zu wollen: Klein, schlank, breite Hüften, proportionierte Brüste, volle rote Lippen (und Haare), sexy (gefährlich) und verführerisch. Das ist natürlich schön anzusehen, aber wie die Geschichte etwas eintönig.
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Dave C
2.0 out of 5 stars BASIC
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 8, 2022
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Although there are merits to Santos’ artistic style and the way in which he presents the storyboard, there is definitely nothing noteworthy to how he uses dialect as part of this process

The characters are pretty basic, one-dimensional, generic stereotypes of their roles - thuggish protagonist; lustworthy femme fatale; dim-witted assassins, and this seems matched by the story being one we’ve read and seen before in various action-based ‘thrillers’, where the main character slugs their way from bloody, gun-toting, high-kick body-slamming sequence to another, always managing to avoid critical damage, and invariably coming out the victor
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