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Book Reviews of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Serial (CSI, Graphic Novel, Bk 1)

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Serial (CSI, Graphic Novel, Bk 1)
CSI Crime Scene Investigation Serial - CSI, Graphic Novel, Bk 1
Author: Max Allan Collins, Ashley Wood, Gabriel Rodriguez (Illustrator)
ISBN-13: 9781416503521
ISBN-10: 1416503528
Publication Date: 1/25/2005
Pages: 272
Edition: Graphic Novel/Comic
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Pocket Star
Book Type: PaperBack/Graphic Novel/Comic
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noisechick avatar reviewed CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Serial (CSI, Graphic Novel, Bk 1) on + 95 more book reviews
For fans of the show, it's all there - down to Grissom's snarky one-liners. It's done circa 2002, so Greg is still in the lab.
The dialog is a little annoying, they say "Leuco-Crystal Violet" instead of LCV or 'blood spray' (which is what it does, detect blood) half a dozen times. Yet that's about the only piece of work-related jargon they use - so it's distracting and superfluous.
But the story holds together: A modern day Jack the Ripper is recreating their namesake's murders as painfully accurately (same types of locations, same type of dismemberment) as possible. WHILE a Jack the Ripper convention is going on in town!
Still, in true CSI fashion, there is little gore, it's about the SCIENCE.
(Which, was kinda annoying for a horror fan like me.)
I also wish they'd used more of Ashley Wood's art - it's more, grown up, disturbing and spooky. (That was why I picked it up. )But sadly, it's only used for the 'lets go to the technical re-enactment' that they usually use computer FX for on the show. That and a little of the old-tyme Jack the Ripper woodcuts. Oh and the chapter pages.
Gabriel Rodriguez (who can do good stuff - if you've seen Locke & Key) is kinda restrained by doing real-life actors. They come off as kinda matte.
Cheese avatar reviewed CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Serial (CSI, Graphic Novel, Bk 1) on + 324 more book reviews
This is a reprint of the comic book graphic novel series released by IDW Publishing. It's main story is about someone recreating the Jack the Ripper murders in Vegas. Good Story, not sure if I am a fan of an awesome series like CSI being translated into the comic book medium.
comicbookqueen avatar reviewed CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Serial (CSI, Graphic Novel, Bk 1) on + 9 more book reviews
I absolutely looked it u can really get in the story u feel like your helping solve the crime