Black Orchid
1990 • 160 pages

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Average rating3.7

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A New York Times Bestseller Before introducing the modern version of The Sandman, Neil Gaiman wrote this dark tale that reinvented a strange DC Comics super hero in the Vertigo mold. Featuring spectacular art by Gaiman's frequent collaborator, DaveMcKean, BLACK ORCHID. After being viciously murdered, Susan Linden is reborn fully grown as the Black Orchid, a hybrid of plant and human, destined to avenge her own death. Now, as this demigoddessattempts to reconcile human memory and botanical origins, she must untangle the webs of deception and secrets that led to her death. Beginning in the cold streets of a heartless metropolis and ending in the Amazon rainforest, this book takes thereader on a journey through secrets, suffering and self-rediscovery.


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Black Orchid is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1973 with contributions by Sheldon Mayer, Steve Skeates, and Arnold Drake.

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More of a 3.5 than a four since it's certainly not my favorite Gaiman. Giving it a four just for that chapter in Gotham, really lovely characterization all around. That appearance of Swamp Thing was also just beautiful and might just be my favorite scene in the entire book.

July 15, 2021

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