Castle: Richard Castle's Deadly Storm

This book was a huge disappointment. It is just a comic book. Extremely disappointed. Do not like at all. Will not be ordering books again. Very confusing array of Castle books on the the store web site.

Sorry- but I did not realize "Graphic Novel" meant comic book format. I bought this and "storm season". Graphics are gross and the speech balloons are so small I couldn't read them. I trash canned both of them same day they were downloaded.

My biggest problem when reading the Castle books is that the language is so flowery, its not only distracting but it makes it harder to read. Don't get me wrong, its beautiful language, but its excessive. Luckily because this was a graphic novel, we didn't have all that language explaining everything. I thought the illustrations were great and a lot of fun (although at one point a chick kinda looked like a guy...that was weird).

I also liked this because it was a deviation from the Nikki Heat story and I was always curious about the Storm stories. The way that the ending left it made me hope that they would do more of the graphic novels or at least release another book. The story line was a classic absurd Castle story, except instead of murders we had CIA operations.

I enjoyed Storms humor because its the same as Castles, and I didn't like Clara because of the association with the woman that isn't Beckett. Sadly this is another post without a lot of meat because it was just a graphic novel and there really wasn't much to it.

Brian Bendis, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Lan Medina create an excellent "adaptation" of "Richard Castle's" first novel. While not as twisty and meaty as Castle's more recent Nikki Heat prose novels, it's still an effective thriller, full of action and suspense. The art, by Medina, is equally effective in the quiet, dialogue scenes as in the moments of action. The script perfectly captures Castle's unique voice, and adapts the novel so smoothly it's impossible to tell if any cuts were made. (I say this, not having read the original.)

While American comics tend to rely on superhero stories, it's nice to see a different genre coming from Marvel's House of Ideas. (Even if it's really someone else's idea.) While the story itself is a lot of fun, it's also neat to see the "making of" features in the back of the book, as well as a complete list of Castle's works. Here's hoping we'll see more of them either coming back in print, or adapted into graphic novels like this one.

I really was looking forward to this book. Great cover and nice drawings with the promise of PI investigations etc.
Unfortunately the plot was too thin, or rather the adaptation was not great. I had a hard time trying to assimilate how Derrick Storm could glide seamlessly into a CIA operation, get involved and get out again. Along the way, a CIA operative was knocked off, and there was a rather cheesy ending to the whole thing.
I am not that familiar with Richard Castles novels, but this is not Philip Marlowe stuff.