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?

Product as described

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.