Black Wade: The Wild Side of Love Paperback – Illustrated, 10 Oct. 2013

A very well produced and presented gay comic. Unlike some which were rushed, with scenes becoming confusing and sometimes incoherent, it is very well sequenced, yet leave plenty of room for the reader to exercise a degree of imagination. Very good story line which I really liked. It can be described as hot but not done "over the top" so as to numb the reader or in effect becoming boring. In the main stuck to the fantasised story line and not just obsessed with sex; which many gay comics trapped themselves into. At the end, though, leaves one or two questions which seem to point towards the strong possibility of a continuum - part II? Is Marak going to just accept the situation or do something imaginative? or is it that Black Wade and Jack lived together happily ever after?

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Very like it, I look forward buying no2 book

Very good drawings and story, but if it was a novel it could have been a lot better.As a comic book , it is good, and you can see what the people should look like.Which is good in some ways, but it was way too short otherwise.

Very nice

I have to say that Black Wade is a terrific comic. If you want a high-action tale on the high seas with plenty of aggro, flashbacks, taking of captives and 'mistreating' them in ways that reveal their true selves (the hunky young Lieutenant of the Royal Navy, Jack Wilkins), storms at sea, gay sex and interludes involving a fiancee in a well-drawn 18th century London, this book cannot fail to please! Above all, the graphic style of Franze, who more recently wrote and drew Poseidon-T, is very sexy in those scenes (several of them) and packs a fierce romantic punch - when the fearsome pirate Black Wade and the young buff ingenu fall for each other, the pictures of their interlocking faces and shining eyes are quite beautiful and intense. It is, above all, a celebration of love and the thrill of discovering a body where everything comes together, wrapped up in a wide-ranging, compact story. Franze really knows how to get the angles right for maximum impact, and his foreshortening is in the Michelangelo class, combined with subtle, luminous colouring. It almost leaps off the page at you - and you don't mind at all ...

I can understand exactly what Franze and Andärle mean when they say that their style is; nifty and thoroughly in the details. This precision makes the world of Black Wade incredibly rich and one that you will want to revisit often.The opening is well scripted with a backstory that deftly gives you an understanding of Jack. A young man, engaged to the luscious Annabeth, but filled with forbidden desires for more masculine curves. Jack has great strength of character and integrity, but he is no match for the merciless pirate who captures him and subjects him to all manner of wicked, nasty goodness. Black Wade is a swarthy, likable rogue with much lustrous hair and beard. I'd like to give him pats. He also has rugby player thighs. These are the very best kind of thighs to have you understand! heh.The art is incredibly beautiful. The tension and lust between Jack and Black Wade is palpable and so incredibly hot. I think my favorite panels are of Jack when he is sleeping early on in the book and having some rather erotic and lickable dreams! I also liked the images of Wade lolling about in his room, ship, bath and bed. All of them! He is just lush. The whole book is so gorgeous and it is difficult to narrow it down to just one or two images. The emotion conveyed through the color is also a large part of what makes this such a memorable read and the moody, dark palate used in the picture of Wade on the bridge illustrates this point beautifully. Or, when Jack and Wade are in a clinch in one of the final cabins scenes the red is simply to die for.This is absolutely a must have and has to be one of my favorite reads I've purchased this year. It has everything, dashing heroes, star crossed romance, bad guys, knee breeches, ships, rope, leather boots and more swashbuckling that you can shake a stick at. Clever, beautiful, utterly romantic and total 5 star plus read.So, I liked it. Just a bit.

Age of sail pedants, abandon ship. But everyone else, climb aboard for a fruity and surprisingly touching naughty-cal romp. (Yes, I know. I'm shameless.)It's a predictable story, and anyone who has read any m/m book involving pirates will not be at all surprised with the plot. Black Wade is another "have him washed and brought to my cabin" type, and yes there's a fair amount of rape portrayed in this story. And for those of you who really dislike "rape turns to love" are going to want to stay away. But I have to say, it's not a one-sided thing, as Wade begins to love his captor, Jack Wilkins, just as much as the other way round.But really, it's all about the drawings which are very beautiful. I don't have much knowledge of Graphic Novels but I really liked the look of these pictures. I'm used to the frontispieces and the introductory pages being showcase pages with all the talent on show, but the quality is pretty much standard throughout, it's not "one quality for the front and a lower quality for the panels." There's a particular emphasis on lighting, which I really liked, the way the lanterns in the claustrophobic cabins cast light on naked flesh or half clad bodies. Yaoi this certainly isn't. The men are manly men-and if Jack is a little lighter in build and height than Black Wade, it doesn't mean he's girly in any way at all.It's very sexually graphic and there are male members everywhere, so not a book to be found by your grandma-and yes, everyone has washboard abs, but there are hairy chests and scars to be found, even if all the crew are hot, half dressed and horny. Can't say I blame them. I very much doubt that the ship is accurate, or the sails but I didn't buy it for that, after all. However, it's not all sex, there's an exciting fighting section, and a terrible storm (which gets Wilkins out of his captivity.)For a sexual novel, which it doesn't shy away from being, it certainly "does what it says on the tin" as it were, and it's a keeper for me, for that-and for the stunning artwork.

Lo stile di disegno e il colore potrebbero ricordare un Disney per adulti!Coinvolgente e bello da vedere!Consiglio la versione inglese, rilegata e di formato più grande, la versione italiana purtroppo (anche se gli autori sono italiani) è piccola ed è una brossura....

This book popped up under one of Amazon's "recommended also" features. I hesitated to buy it since it seemed a little expensive. However, I found that it was well worth the price. "Black Wade" is a gay romance graphic novel - similar to hard yaoi in theme and tone. And I do mean HARD yaoi, this book contains very graphic sex scenes, including noncon at the beginning. A typical yaoi manga runs about $12.95 to as much as $15.95 for a trade paperback in black and white. This is not only a hardcover edition, it is also FULL COLOR throughout like standard graphic novels. So the higher price is actually reasonable. There is no dust jacket, but the cover image is printed right on the binding. It has 80 pages, but the pages are larger format so readers get about as much content as a manga, perhaps a tad bit less. Also, the production values are high quality. The paper is heavier stock than normal graphic novels, and very bright showcasing the brilliant coloring of the artwork.Art is subjective, but I found the artwork here to be excellent, and extremely well done. Clean lines and good proportions on all characters and the text was carefully placed to retain clarity but not block any of the imagery. I found no typos, and the language fit with the period nature of the story. I enjoy yaoi, but sometimes the characters look a little feminine. Not so here, these are "manly men." Right down to having hair on their chests (and other areas ;-) Still, they were attractively drawn. It's a pirate story, so there's action outside the sex as well and the ending leaves room for more without cliffhanging.I enjoyed the novel so much, I went looking for the publisher's site to see if there would be more from the authors. No news yet, but I really hope they do a sequel. Highly recommended to hard yaoi fans, and M/M fans looking for something new to try.

Wer Yaoi und Shonen ai Mangas liebt wird bei diesem Buch voll auf seine Kosten kommenIm Gegensatz zu Mangas ist diese Geschichte in Farbe und an Details wird nicht gespartSabber!!!Der Zeichenstil erinnert ein bißchen an einen Disneyfilm aber kommt gut rüberIch habe wegen des hohen Preis erst gezögert, hab den kauf aber nicht bereut.Auch wenn die Geschicht in englisch ist wird man kein Problem haben. Da der Text recht einfachgehalten ist und man ihn auch ohne große Englisch Kenntnisse gut verstehen kann.Also kaufen und viel Spaß!!!!

Fasziniert! Ich hoffe die Author können weiter zeichnen und ein neue Story schreiben. sehr sehr schöne Geschichte. Vor allem es ist geil!

This was a most awesome book. One of the M/M e-book writers I adore posted the link to this book on her twitter, and I had to have it. It is a wonderful story, and the art is wonderful. Every time I've gone back through this book, I've noticed something else in the background that I missed the previous time through. Definitely one that I will be pulling out often. Though most certainly *not* around my nephews. :DOnly thing i'm unhappy about was that somehow in the packing/shrinkwrapping process the first couple of pages got crimped somehow so there are a few small dents on those first pages. But they go away right quick and don't interfere with the story at all.