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Sleeper Omnibus Free FREE SLEEPER OMNIBUS PDF Sean Phillips,Ed Brubaker | 720 pages | 01 May 2013 | DC Comics | 9781401238032 | English | United States Sleeper: Omnibus by Ed Brubaker Currently, we do not have this feature in myBiz. If you want to use this feature, you will have to logout and sign in again using your personal account. Not now Switch profile. Not registered with myBiz Sleeper Omnibus Signup now. In order to avail myBiz benefits, you will have to login again with your work email ID. We will redirect you to login page. Not now Log in Not registered with myBiz yet? We might still be able to book the bus ticket s of your choice on the phone. Please call us at Toll Free to book on the phone. Your Comments:. All Rights Reserved. Coming soon! Not now Logout Log in. Switch to myBiz account In order to avail myBiz benefits, you will have to login again with your work email ID. Not now Log in. Travel Home. Bus in India. Sleeper Bus Booking. 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More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Sleeper: Omnibus. Dec 26, Kemper rated it really liked it Shelves: bad-guys-rulespy-vs-spy, vast-conspiracycomicssuperhero. Things go sideways after Lynch is shot and is in a coma. Oh, and did I forget to mention the super Sleeper Omnibus It also leaves him pretty miserable. The one thing that comes close to penetrating his shell is Sleeper Omnibus on-going affair with Miss Misery, another Tao lieutenant who literally thrives on doing bad things to people. Ed Brubaker has a knack for Sleeper Omnibus genres like the way he combined a police procedural crime comic with the antics of the world of Batman in the excellent Gotham Central. The artwork by Sean Phililps also has Sleeper Omnibus same brooding Sleeper Omnibus style that has worked so well with other Brubaker stories like the Criminal comics. He also has to do terrible things to maintain his cover, but eventually considers that he did things equally bad in service to the IO and wonders if it really matters at all what his intentions are. The murky world of spy games and suspect ethical choices have more of a vibe of a John LeCarre novel than a comic book. A note about the omnibus edition: This is one big bastard of a kitten squisher. I also reviewed the first volume Sleeper Omnibus Sleeper. View all 10 comments. Feb 16, Cheese rated it really liked it. I really didn't Sleeper Omnibus what to expect from this story. The synopsis mentioned crime noir with super powers, but that doesn't really describe what it is or do it justice. Sleeper Omnibus espionage at its highest level within the old windstorm universe i. The Authority. It's starts Sleeper Omnibus very slow and the art from Phillips gets better and better as the story goes on. The main character is a sleeper agent in a tug of war match Sleeper Omnibus two powerful spy's. Each agent has their own special power Miss Misery Relationships start to broaden and you get a real feel for the characters, something Brubaker is Sleeper Omnibus at. Overall it's a story that you need to invest time in. It does take Sleeper Omnibus to Sleeper Omnibus together, but it really does become a special story with a fantastic ending. You can tell that this really meant something to Brubaker. View 1 comment. Apr 11, Aaron rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. This is my second read of this series, having Sleeper Omnibus the individual trades a few years back, and yet I was still absolutely hooked throughout. Brubaker and Phillips seamlessly blend super villainy and hard-boiled spy thrills so well that it feels like you're getting the best of both worlds without any of the bullshit. I Sleeper Omnibus cannot think of anything I dislike about the central Sleeper series itself. However, the omnibus also includes Point Blank, a one-off murder mystery starring Grifter from t This is my second read of this series, having read the individual trades a few years back, and yet I was still absolutely hooked throughout. As Brubaker explains in the afterword, this story was originally intended to stand alone, but WildStorm liked the setup so much that they asked for Sleeper Omnibus followup. Well, I'm glad they did, because Point Blank is mediocre at best, but it spawned one hell of a spinoff. I do think reading Point Blank first adds to Sleeper, since it gives you pretty much all the backstory, but on the whole it's nowhere near as good. But Sleeper, man. Give me a break. Every character is fleshed out. You care about the Sleeper Omnibus, you care about the "good guys," if you can even call them that. Everyone is situated firmly in the grey, all of their motives personal, none of which really for "the greater good. And the ending will hang with you for weeks. Brubaker and Phillips have done a lot of amazing work over the years: Criminal, Incognito, and their current series, Fatale. They are my favorite creative team, and have knocked a lot of stuff out of the park. If you haven't read it and don't want to fork over the money for the omnibus, at least check out the trades. You won't be disappointed. Oct 05, Paul rated it it was amazing Shelves: graphic-novelsreviewed. I've read my fair share of super-hero comics I should, I been doing it for over 40 yearsand I've pretty much Sleeper Omnibus just about everything written Sleeper Omnibus noir-comics If anyone had asked me can the two mix? Heck, had anyone one asked me if mixing the two had ever been done. I probably would have said a couple of times, but without Sleeper Omnibus that much success. Somehow the super-heroic side of the story would tend to stand out and the Sleeper Omnibus part would simply be WOW! Somehow the super-heroic side of the story would tend to stand out and the noir part would simply be there for a varying 'new' method to tell the super-hero part. Then I got my hands on the fist trade paperback of Sleeper. Then after some research into wanting to buy the second trade, I found that it was all available as one big-arsed Omnibus! So yeah, I bought the Omnibus, and boy are my arms sore Sep 25, Relstuart rated it liked it Shelves: mysterydcgraphic-novel. You know those really dark bitter beers? That's what this story reminded me of. The main character is an operative of the good guys intel agency infiltrating the bad guys similar organization. Only one person knows he is undercover.
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