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Out There (collected editions) #1
Out There tome 1: The Evil Within
Dans la petite ville d’El Dorado, les choses ne semblent pas se passer de façon très naturelle... Des créatures démoniaques ont fait alliance avec les notables pour s’emparer des lieux et contrôler ses habitants. Un groupe de collégiens va se trouver aux prises avec l’impensable...
Retrouvez tout le talent d’Humberto Ramos (Crimson, Spider-Man, Fairy Quest) dans une saga inédite en album qui voit une ville plonger en enfer. Il faudra tout le courage de quatre adolescents hors du commun pour déjouer cette menace.
Retrouvez tout le talent d’Humberto Ramos (Crimson, Spider-Man, Fairy Quest) dans une saga inédite en album qui voit une ville plonger en enfer. Il faudra tout le courage de quatre adolescents hors du commun pour déjouer cette menace.
144 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2002
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About the author
Brian Augustyn
343Ìýbooks39ÌýfollowersAugustyn got his start in the industry in 1986 as an editor for Tru Studios' Trollords. He then edited Syphons and Speed Racer for NOW Comics in 1987. In 1988, he joined DC, starting out as a co-editor on Action Comics during its period as a weekly title.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s Augustyn was an editor for DC Comics, where he edited The Flash, Justice League and the Impact Comics line of titles.
Augustyn was recognized for his work in the industry with the Wizard Fan Award for Favorite Editor in 1994.
He served as the managing editor of Visionary Comics Studio.
As editor of The Flash beginning in 1989, Augustyn brought in Mark Waid as writer in 1992, which led to an acclaimed eight-year run. Under Augustyn's stewardship, the Flash was brought out from the shadow of his predecessors and increased his powers dramatically. Other Augustyn-Waid editor-writer partnerships included The Comet (DC/Impact, 1992) and Impulse (DC, 1995�1996).
Augustyn currently works as story editor for publisher Red Giant Entertainment and their Giant-Size Comics line of free print comic book titles which debuted on May 3, 2014 as part of Free Comic Book Day.[
During the late 1980s and early 1990s Augustyn was an editor for DC Comics, where he edited The Flash, Justice League and the Impact Comics line of titles.
Augustyn was recognized for his work in the industry with the Wizard Fan Award for Favorite Editor in 1994.
He served as the managing editor of Visionary Comics Studio.
As editor of The Flash beginning in 1989, Augustyn brought in Mark Waid as writer in 1992, which led to an acclaimed eight-year run. Under Augustyn's stewardship, the Flash was brought out from the shadow of his predecessors and increased his powers dramatically. Other Augustyn-Waid editor-writer partnerships included The Comet (DC/Impact, 1992) and Impulse (DC, 1995�1996).
Augustyn currently works as story editor for publisher Red Giant Entertainment and their Giant-Size Comics line of free print comic book titles which debuted on May 3, 2014 as part of Free Comic Book Day.[
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November 8, 2018
Town leaders make a deal with a demon to keep their town safe and 4 high school students must stop the demon and his minions from crossing over and destroying the earth. Yes, this has been done before but I do like the characters and Ramos's art is fun as hell. The pacing is inconsistent though and the story jumps between issues to the point you think you may have missed an issue.
April 17, 2019
I wanted to read something new from the author Brian Augustyn and I picked up this story from Amazon Kindle Unlimited out of a most sincere curiosity and after reading it all I would say in a very humble way as a comic books fan that this was not clearly intended the sacred word of "art" but it has provided me a tremendous fun. I must say that it takes a great chef to recreate a dish that has been eaten ad-nausea and make it delicious. I will go fast as a shark- Accept quote metal on brothers of metal- read the volume two while Kindle Unlimited still permits me.
June 6, 2017
Otra historia de demonios que pretenden entrar al plano terrenal donde un grupo de preadolescentes tienen (sin explicar porqué) una serie de poderes para detenerlos. No recomendable para mayores de quince años.
El arte de Humberto Ramos insistÃa con el estilo de los noventas e Image. Los rostros son a veces espantosos y el gustillo a Disney reflotando entre el anime japones.
El arte de Humberto Ramos insistÃa con el estilo de los noventas e Image. Los rostros son a veces espantosos y el gustillo a Disney reflotando entre el anime japones.
April 7, 2016
Disappointing.
Humberto Ramos' drawings are amazing but the story lacks consistency and jumps from one info to the other without much explanations.
It's not very original - been there, done that (better) with The Faculty by Rodriguez and probably tons of other stuff - but could still be entertaining if it didn't miss some team building moments.
Our four clichés (the jock, the cheerleader, the outcast and the younger nerd) team up too quickly, they don't talk together enough, they just happen to randomly learn stuff and don't meditate a lot on their discoveries because "they have no time, the end of the world is coming !".
Hmpf, ok, why not ? Overdone, but who can be really bored with a classic anyway ? But take the time to build your characters, ffs ! ESPECIALLY if they're overrused stereotypes ! Give them something more ! And by "something more" I don't mean
The storytelling is clumsy and messy : a lot of pages for that little of a story. Clearly, this comics could have been better.
In a few words, NOT SMOOTH.
Might read #2 to see if it improves, though... Not sure.
Humberto Ramos' drawings are amazing but the story lacks consistency and jumps from one info to the other without much explanations.
It's not very original - been there, done that (better) with The Faculty by Rodriguez and probably tons of other stuff - but could still be entertaining if it didn't miss some team building moments.
Our four clichés (the jock, the cheerleader, the outcast and the younger nerd) team up too quickly, they don't talk together enough, they just happen to randomly learn stuff and don't meditate a lot on their discoveries because "they have no time, the end of the world is coming !".
Hmpf, ok, why not ? Overdone, but who can be really bored with a classic anyway ? But take the time to build your characters, ffs ! ESPECIALLY if they're overrused stereotypes ! Give them something more ! And by "something more" I don't mean
The storytelling is clumsy and messy : a lot of pages for that little of a story. Clearly, this comics could have been better.
In a few words, NOT SMOOTH.
Might read #2 to see if it improves, though... Not sure.
August 16, 2017
I've not much to say about it, actually. Religion vs the bad fairies is my superficial take on it - the mayor and town elders of some small town are selling out to the bad guys, and apart from four completely at odds teenagers (the freak, the geek, the jock and the princess - sounding familiar to anyone else?) no-one can tell. Add in the weirdo who has taken up residence in the abandoned church (what is it with horror and abandoned churches? I've encountered far more than I believe exist in reality) who turns out to be on the side of the angels (possibly literally).
There are wacky hijinks, which I thought ridiculous for something that I assume is trying to scare me. But maybe I'm not the target demographic - I'm too old and jaded to really appreciate what the creators are portraying.
A pleasant little piece, I'll read more if I run across them, but I'm not going to go looking for them.
There are wacky hijinks, which I thought ridiculous for something that I assume is trying to scare me. But maybe I'm not the target demographic - I'm too old and jaded to really appreciate what the creators are portraying.
A pleasant little piece, I'll read more if I run across them, but I'm not going to go looking for them.
April 12, 2020
Holy guacamole! What an ending to this tome! I found this series to have some pacing issues, but with a cliffhanger like that how can I not continue? Overall, I really like the plot of this series - it is one that I often find myself gravitating to when picking out genres. But I found the pacing to be moving along way too quickly - intriguing plot points were brought up but not explored further, and magic was introduced into the series with no teasers or foreshadowing, making it feel dumped into the storyline. Bottom line: an interesting pilot and I have hopes for the next installment.
February 19, 2021
Brian Augustyn and Humberto Ramos brings readers to El Dorado City where the adults make a deal with a devil. The plot is interesting with somewhat generic dialogue. The pacing is way off as big events fly by. These six issues could have been twelve, easy. The star, as usual, is the art by Humberto Ramos. His panels a energetic and fun. His goblins are scary fun. Overall, a decent read that could have been much better.
January 29, 2019
I like the storyline and color in this graphic novel, but feel the young female protagonists are grossly oversexualized, to the point I want to strap the artist down and force feed him feminist films, Clockwork Orange style.
September 18, 2017
I don't think I will be continuing this series. The illustrations were great, but the story line was too jumpy and felt like it had been done before.
March 10, 2019
i read the English version of these, not the French
April 29, 2020
Great art and style, seems like when the artist and writer on these projects collab, it’s always religious in nature. Just saying.
October 25, 2021
Intriguing story, nice art. I wanted to read some more after the first book
April 1, 2024
Tomo 1 de tres publicados, que desconozco si recopilaban el total de la serie.
May 28, 2024
tomo 1 de Out There. Creo que permanece inédito en castellano.
January 3, 2017
I am a sucker for Humberto Ramos' art. I've picked up a few mediocre super hero books over the years simply because certain issues had him as the primary artist. Ramos seems to jump around a lot when it comes to which titles he's working on, so that had a certain appeal.
When I saw a series with art almost entirely by Ramos, it felt worth the risk regardless of quality. I now have some regrets.
This book is such a mountain of cliches that parts of it almost have to have some sort of intention to it. I wonder if Brian Augustyn thought that making the principle characters a jock, a popular girl, a nerd, and a rebel was archetypal, and he could do something fresh with the concept.
He does nothing fresh with the concept.
These characters mostly speak in that sort of insufferable patois that exists only in stories about teenagers written by adults trying to emulate what they think all teenagers sound like. Seriously writers, teenager is not a dialect, and you will not capture how all teens sound, so maybe you should focus on writing dialogue that is either: a. Natural sounding or b. Entertaining. The dialogue for Out There switches between affected and expository most of the time, and neither works. You could cut out half the words in this book without losing anything valuable.
I'm not sure a single thing within the first volume of Out There qualifies as fresh. Not the main characters being "chosen ones", not a small town with a dark secret, not the high school tropes that would have felt painfully outdated 20 years ago, and certainly not the main threat.
The villain doesn't even particularly strike an interesting silhouette. He's big and evil looking. His servants are generic goblins 2 steps removed from an roleplaying game's monster manual.
You know what's more interesting than world-conquering ultimate evil? Anything. Seriously. Almost anything. There's plenty of real-world villainy any thinking person could use as a template, why go back to Skeletor for your influence?
But beyond anything else, the worst crime of all is not giving Ramos anything all that varied to draw. It turns boring people in a boring town facing boring evil drags down even the most dynamic artist. And that's something I simply can't forgive.
When I saw a series with art almost entirely by Ramos, it felt worth the risk regardless of quality. I now have some regrets.
This book is such a mountain of cliches that parts of it almost have to have some sort of intention to it. I wonder if Brian Augustyn thought that making the principle characters a jock, a popular girl, a nerd, and a rebel was archetypal, and he could do something fresh with the concept.
He does nothing fresh with the concept.
These characters mostly speak in that sort of insufferable patois that exists only in stories about teenagers written by adults trying to emulate what they think all teenagers sound like. Seriously writers, teenager is not a dialect, and you will not capture how all teens sound, so maybe you should focus on writing dialogue that is either: a. Natural sounding or b. Entertaining. The dialogue for Out There switches between affected and expository most of the time, and neither works. You could cut out half the words in this book without losing anything valuable.
I'm not sure a single thing within the first volume of Out There qualifies as fresh. Not the main characters being "chosen ones", not a small town with a dark secret, not the high school tropes that would have felt painfully outdated 20 years ago, and certainly not the main threat.
The villain doesn't even particularly strike an interesting silhouette. He's big and evil looking. His servants are generic goblins 2 steps removed from an roleplaying game's monster manual.
You know what's more interesting than world-conquering ultimate evil? Anything. Seriously. Almost anything. There's plenty of real-world villainy any thinking person could use as a template, why go back to Skeletor for your influence?
But beyond anything else, the worst crime of all is not giving Ramos anything all that varied to draw. It turns boring people in a boring town facing boring evil drags down even the most dynamic artist. And that's something I simply can't forgive.
April 24, 2020
Four stereotypical high schoolers band together when their town is invaded by demons.
The first time I read this, about four years ago, I thought it was good enough to keep. On this re-read, I've decided to trade it in at my local used bookstore.
The art is fun, though very cartoony. The story is fairly interesting. But this is Stereotypes with a capital S. And things are resolved too quickly, without 'real work' by our heroes. The reliance on sudden superpowers was a bit weak. Reading reviews of the following two volumes, it appeared the story did not improve so I won't be reading more.
The first time I read this, about four years ago, I thought it was good enough to keep. On this re-read, I've decided to trade it in at my local used bookstore.
The art is fun, though very cartoony. The story is fairly interesting. But this is Stereotypes with a capital S. And things are resolved too quickly, without 'real work' by our heroes. The reliance on sudden superpowers was a bit weak. Reading reviews of the following two volumes, it appeared the story did not improve so I won't be reading more.
January 6, 2011
5/16/2006 - 7/10
Out There is a graphic novel about evil entering a small town and a group of high schoolers dealing with it. This was my first foray into the world of graphic novels. The book itself is beautifully drawn and vibrant. It's very short and quick moving and fun to read. The dialogue and plotting is a little clunky, and it is pretty disappointing because it ends on a cliff-hanger that is never resolved.
Out There is a graphic novel about evil entering a small town and a group of high schoolers dealing with it. This was my first foray into the world of graphic novels. The book itself is beautifully drawn and vibrant. It's very short and quick moving and fun to read. The dialogue and plotting is a little clunky, and it is pretty disappointing because it ends on a cliff-hanger that is never resolved.
September 10, 2007
Cerita: Brian Augustyn
Gambar: Humberto Ramos
seru!!
critanya pas bangeth buat dibikin film..
sayang gw nyari TPB lanjutannya susah bangeth disini..
monyeth deh ah!
Gambar: Humberto Ramos
seru!!
critanya pas bangeth buat dibikin film..
sayang gw nyari TPB lanjutannya susah bangeth disini..
monyeth deh ah!
April 12, 2017
Wow, hi Male Gaze, I'd almost forgotten what you were like! Actually Humberto Ramos's art is gorgeous, but it's disappointing that he uses his skills more for evil than good. (I'll take my cheesecake of the Boris Vallejo variety, thanks, although don't ask me to explain why he gets a pass--feelings are complicated things.)
The characters seemed largely boring to me, with not a lot of interesting personal dynamics at work. I guess I'd like more romantic intrigue or something going on in addition to the demon zombie apocalypse. Since the two popular kids are already a couple, the most we get is that the unpopular Latina biker babe and the popular blonde cheerleader start to become friendly, and maybe the younger nerd boy starts to notice girls after repeated exposure to the biker babe's barely covered endowments. I kind of hoped the girls would run off together just so something interesting might happen between characters, but even if they did it'd probably be cheesecakey and disrespectful rather than interesting or representative. Time to pass.
I was also deeply uncomfortable with the portrayal of the black drug dealers, who appear, offend all with their stereotypes, and then get murdered by a cop. Ouch. Have Augustyn and Ramos only heard that black people exist, or have they actually met any in person? Just asking.
So why two stars? Ramos is pretty skilled, and the coloring was nice. Look at that cover--very enticing. It was also nice to see a comic that didn't assault my eyes with garish reds and yellows and give everyone extremely creepy musculature, so I appreciated seeing something different. Unfortunately that was the only difference for the book, because the rest was straight out of Teen Horror Movie 101. If this sounds like your jam, you know who you are and what you like, so ignore my ranting. If your tastes are similar to mine, though, run away.
The characters seemed largely boring to me, with not a lot of interesting personal dynamics at work. I guess I'd like more romantic intrigue or something going on in addition to the demon zombie apocalypse. Since the two popular kids are already a couple, the most we get is that the unpopular Latina biker babe and the popular blonde cheerleader start to become friendly, and maybe the younger nerd boy starts to notice girls after repeated exposure to the biker babe's barely covered endowments. I kind of hoped the girls would run off together just so something interesting might happen between characters, but even if they did it'd probably be cheesecakey and disrespectful rather than interesting or representative. Time to pass.
I was also deeply uncomfortable with the portrayal of the black drug dealers, who appear, offend all with their stereotypes, and then get murdered by a cop. Ouch. Have Augustyn and Ramos only heard that black people exist, or have they actually met any in person? Just asking.
So why two stars? Ramos is pretty skilled, and the coloring was nice. Look at that cover--very enticing. It was also nice to see a comic that didn't assault my eyes with garish reds and yellows and give everyone extremely creepy musculature, so I appreciated seeing something different. Unfortunately that was the only difference for the book, because the rest was straight out of Teen Horror Movie 101. If this sounds like your jam, you know who you are and what you like, so ignore my ranting. If your tastes are similar to mine, though, run away.
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