"A vampire love story. If you love vampires with human hearts, you are the target audience. If you're ambivalent toward the vampire genre but wouldn't mind reading a well-written one, you might like this book too...
"The art is beautiful, and the character development is strong and sensible, logically following the parameters of a Highlander-like immortal existence.
"Through a series of flashbacks, we learn how our antihero developed the attitude toward women that he currently has (he respects them considerably more than most people respect their food). He approaches his womanizing/hunting like a quest, seeking that certain je ne sais quois that he'll hopefully recognize if he ever finds it."
Rick Silva
Dandelion Studios
"I'm not partial to vampire stories, but this is less about blood, blood, and more blood, and more about the 'living forever' aspect of it. It certainly succeeds there. The surface theme, by which it discusses that, is the main character of the story talking about how he seduces his victims through the years, and that, too, is written well enough. The art is technically perfect - the eye catches all the right details in the right places - and the writing, while not to my favorite subject, is as good as it gets. I really can't see where this could be improved..."
Overall Rating: 10.0. Writing: 10.0. Artwork: 10.0. Packaging: 10.0. Value: 10.0
Jacques Treatment
Dimestore Productions.com
"Nicely designed package. The story by Gary is very entertaining...Overall everything works great here, coloring, lettering, and art all flow nicely with the story. I was drawn to flip the pages to see what was going to happen next. Totally unpredictable story. Great work!"
Allen Freeman
Small Press Newsroom
Syndicated Zine Reviews
"Striving to create an entertaining and socially informative comic book, writer Gary Scott Beatty has an interesting book up his sleeve. His new comic, Seductions, depicts the history of seduction, and how it has evolved with the changing attitudes and role of women - oh, there's also a vampire.
"Fans of subtle horror will appreciate the artwork, as Beatty and Bryan decided to go for a less gory style. While discussing the genre and motif, Beatty described it as, 'Sex and the City from a male perspective, with vampires.' With a description like that, Carrie Bradshaw could really say her last date sucked."
Scoop
"For the uninitiated (Welcome to you, by the way.), "done-in-one" means a single story in a single issue. No need to buy multiple issues, or multiple series, for that matter, to see dangling plot lines resolved. A rare phenomenon in the world of comics of which I'm quite fond.
"Artist James Lyle is one of those individuals who makes you glad there is a visual medium called 'comic books.' His clear, bold lines and well-defined figures lend just the right 'scrubbed clean with Clorox, but something nasty still lurks beneath the shine' look needed for this futuristic story...Lyle also handles striking contrast in amazing fashion, which he proves when Adam discovers..., WHOOPS! Let's just say that Adam discovers the shocking truth beneath the shine.
"From the get-go, Beatty gives us characters with whom we can sympathize...He also provides an engaging story at a crisp, but not rushed pace, with a satisfying conclusion...all in one issue...Adam Among The Gods is worth seeking out."
Mark Allen
Suspended Animation
4 Color Commentary.com
"Here's a radical idea for you: a 24-page comic story.
"As in, a story that is completely contained within 24 pages. It's not part of an ongoing, serialized storyline. It's not an OGN. It doesn't feature characters who have ever appeared before, or will ever appear again. It's just a simple short story in comic book form, no pre-existing knowledge or commitment to future issues necessary.
"Did I just blow your mind?!?
"...the story being told is a good, old-school SF tale of hubris and Big Ideas, and some nice, subtle touches that Beatty is smart enough not to pound home...Likewise, Lyle's...characters are expressive, and he does a good job of portraying Adam as deformed without making him overly grotesque."
Adam Prosser
rackraids.com
"Alex Toth's oft-quoted advice to other artists, 'To add to truth only subtracts from it,' is a beautiful and noble sentiment, one which can be found well demonstrated in a more practical sense with Jame Lyle's work on Adam Among The Gods.
"In this age of over-rendered, light boxed, ultimately static comic book illustration, Lyle's bold streamlined graphics are a genuine delight, harkening back to another near forgotten era of our craft when the flow of sequential panel storytelling, not pseudo photo-realism, was the primary goal of each and every comic illustrator.
"Lyle delivers on that oft forgotten approach to illustration with some of his most mature work yet as an artist. He does the real job in drawing comics and he does it very well, indeed."
Jackson "Butch" Guice
DC and Marvel artist
