The Corinthian: Death in Venice by Darko Macan

The Corinthian: Death in Venice Reviews

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  M.M. Strawberry Library & Reviews

  It's a... weird spin-off of the Samdman/Endless universe. the Corinthian is definitely a creep but you'd already know that from reading the Sandman series or watching the Netflix adaptation of said series. It's not a bad spin-off, and is a decent item for a Sandman collector.
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  Airiz

  Among the few punkish denizens of the Dreaming in Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman series, it is the Corinthian that I love to itty, bitty pieces. I can’t help it; I have a weakness for rebellious characters. He is the anthropomorphic personification of the opposite of good dreams, going AWOL when his master was imprisoned and being the classily creepy, shades-sporting, and eyeball-devouring serial killer back in The Doll’s House. He got me hooked on his story right from his first appearance. I was a tad sad when Morpheus “uncreated” him. Just imagine my celebration when Morpheus “created” him again before the series ends.
  
  Needless to say, I was excited to hear there’s a spin-off featuring Mr. Everyone’s Favorite Nightmare on the forefront. But after reading this, I was convinced that no one else aside from Gaiman could ever make the Corinthian a character worth reading.
  
  The Corinthian: Death in Venice tells the story of the first “dream rot” as he first sets foot on the Waking world and learns to murder humans. It is set in 1920, shortly after Morpheus’ incarceration in Preludes and Nocturnes. There’s an appearance of Charles Constantine, one of John Constantine’s ancestors, and a wanna-be-Endless of some sort who calls herself “Pestilence.” I learned a couple of things about the Corinthian, but even those back-story bomb-droppings did not succeed in sucking me into the tale. It’s really saddening.
  
  I’ll be honest: even the artwork is not that good. I have the cbz copy of this volume, and I repeatedly downloaded it from other links with the false belief that I just got the bad-quality scans of the graphic novel. After having half-a-dozen of the same cbz’s on my desktop, I guess it’s not the scan. It’s really the art.
  
  I’ll give this two stars for the few info I got about Cori and the character of the mysterious “blind man,” one of the few surviving victims of the Corinthian (and perhaps the only character here that can be considered slightly "interesting").
  
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  Ryan

  I don't know if it's because Gaiman didn't write it, but this story just didn't do much for me. It's sad because the Corinthian is a very interesting character.
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  Tomás Sendarrubias García

  Un cómic protagonizado por la Pesadilla Favorita de Todos... O al menos, la mía, desde luego. El Corintio es uno de esos personajes secundarios que aparecieron en The Sandman y que pese a su breve presencia en la historia (solo aparece en un número del primer arco, el maravilloso Coleccionistas y en el penúltimo acto, Las Benévolas), es uno de esos que quedan marcados y que forman parte del imaginario del Dador de Formas. En los últimos años ha sido recuperado en La Casa de los Susurros, donde ha participado en la historia de Erzuli, y ha sido uno de los protagonistas de La Casa de los Vigilantes.
  
  Y ahora, tenemos una pequeña historia (son solo 72 páginas, en un tomo muy bonito y cuidado, pero 72 páginas) centrada en el Corintio, en esos años posteriores a la desaparición de Morfeo del Sueño al ser aprisionado en el primer arco, Preludios y Nocturnos, de modo que vamos a conocer cómo el Corintio tomó forma humana y se quedó en el mundo de los vivos. A través de esta historia, vamos a ver cómo el Corintio pasa de ser una pesadilla a un asesino, y lo hace en una trama ambientada en la oscura Venecia de los años veinte, en esa Italia que ya se adentraba en el fascismo, lugar de encuentro de ricos y poderosos de todo el mundo y en la que aún se viven las consecuencias de lo ocurrido en los campos de batalla de Europa en la primera guerra mundial.
  
  Y bueno, pues a ver, la historia se me queda un poco corta de extensión, las cosas como son. Tres numeritos no dan para mucho, el guion está bien y el dibujo, aunque no va a ser de mis favoritos nunca, creo que es muy apropiado para la historia que cuenta. Creo que hay cosas que se quedan en el aire, no voy a comentarlas mucho porque con 72 páginas casi cualquier cosa es spoiler. Creo que El Corintio da mucho más de sí, podría ser un antihéroe chulísimo incluso para una serie limitada mucho más larga (no voy a decir colección regular... pero igual también, bajo el paraguas de Sandman Presenta...).
  
  Pero bien, lo importante es que los personajes de Sandman no desaparezcan y podamos seguir disfrutando del mundo de Sueño.
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  Storm

  "I like terrible things, I do. But I do NOT cause them. I don't need to."
  
  The Corinthian is puzzled. He's gone to Venice to learn the art of killing, but he goes to a man who seemingly cannot Kill, even during times of War. The Corinthian's purpose to learn how to kill, is still not fulfilled. His Lord died and he fell in love with The War. He does everything in his power to learn how to be a man and to kill. But what will this unfulfilled nightmare do when he has gotten what he wanted? I really didn't enjoy the Art much, nor the story. Everyone seemed morally bankrupt. It did end on a somewhat lukewarm note but there was a clever ending line embedded in there.
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  Komuniststar

  Ca mi se toliko svidilo da dam 4 zvizdice? Prije svega crtež. Žeželjev crtež uvik je gušt za oko. dizajn likova je super pogođen, Venecija kao mjesto događanja dobro je dočarana, ne toliko ko mjesto u stvarnosti već u mitološkom atlasu magičnih gradova. Svaki od tri sveska objedinjena ovdje ima zaokruženu priču. Zanimljivu, dovoljno razrađenu.
  Zac ne onda nisam oduševljen? Jer onu uvodnu priču, u kratko ispričanu u uvodu, iz stranica koje sljedi i koje su prethodile ne vidim.
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  Gonzalo Oyanedel

  Amor y muerte, ingredientes de una tragedia inevitable que tiene como centro al personaje de Neil Gaiman. Para lectores de Sandman.
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  Diana

  Full of plot holes and incongruent with the rules of the Sandman universe.
  Very disappointing since The Corinthian is one of the more intersting characters and I was looking forward to reading more of him
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  Tim Nowotny

  It was not bad but somewhat disconnected from everything after.