Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/Soooooo, I have to admit I knew zilch about this before requesting it. See, I just joined a new library that actually has some graphic novels in circulation so I started asking for anything by anyone I’d heard of before. I also live on Earth so I have heard of the television program Castle (but I’ve never watched it) . . . No, you’re not even close yet pal. Okay, so it turns out Richard Castle is like an actual human who also write...

This was pretty ridiculous but I liked it anyway! A graphic novel adaptation of a book written by a character on a television show. Ah, media. I love you. To be honest, I expected more from Bendis--given his experience with Powers, I expected a little more meta, a little more knowingness from the pulpy bestseller Castle is meant to have made his career on. But for all that it was predictable in the Michael Crichton sort of way, it was still pretty amusing, because it's like a reflection of Castl...

While it was interesting to read about Derreck Storm, but this was way too rushed, art work was poor. I just found it too hard to enjoy, maybe if it was a novel they I would of liked it better. Too much of a gimmick.

I was about to congratulate myself for having the foresight to know how to break into my own office...But then I realized that I created an environment for myself that I might need to break into my own office.

And this is how fictional stuff becomes real. These books first made appearance in the TV series Castle and they trickled down in the real world and although its promotional material its good none the less.I have always loved comics, and I hope that I will always love them. Even though I grew up reading local Indian comics like Raj Comics or Diamond Comics or even Manoj Comics, now's the time to catch up on the international and classic comics and Graphic novels. I am on my quest to read as many...

Derrick Storm is a smalltime private investigator whose recent assignment opens up an entire world of conspiracies involving money transfers and rogue CIA agents. The case starts off with Derrick spying on a cheating husband in a trailer park and continues with calls from CIA Agent Clara Strike wanting to hire him for a bigger job. Derrick is continually backed into a corner every time he thinks he’s in the clear, yet he figures out creative ways to get himself out of these sticky situations. Ca...

Quick entertaining read for Castle fans. Pretty much what Castle would have fantasized his job as a PI would have been like, complete with sexy female leads and spy gadgets.

I love the TV series 'Castle' featuring the characters, Richard Castle, the crime fiction novelist, and Kate Beckett, the NYPD Detective, whom Castle helps in solving cases. One of the books that is mentioned in the TV series is the novel series featuring private investigator Derrick Storm. When I discovered that the Derrick Storm series exists in the real world, I was quite thrilled. Castle being a fictitious character and the novel being real - well, it was like being inside a Raymond Queneau

This was a decent story...but I'm totally confused.I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that I'm the only person out there who didn't know there was a tv show called Castle. I'm right aren't I?I don't really watch tv, so I've never seen it.P.S. I'm not a pretentious douche who thinks tv rots your brain. I mean, it does...but that's not why I don't watch it.So this is a graphic novel based on a fake author's book? Except the fake books are called Nikki Heat series, right? So who is Derric...

Whoever thought to market the books of Castle from the series was a genius. I love getting in the mind of fictional character Richard Castle. He is witty, egotistical, jumps to conclusions, clumsy, jealous, real, and paints a beautiful picture with words.The story was about what I expected from a Richard Castle plot: a little over the top, kind of goofy, and doesn't take itself very seriously, but still well-written and very entertaining; Moreover, The art was flawless. I'd love to see more of D...

I am not really into comic books but I must confess I really enjoyed reading Deadly Storm. As an "adaptation" of a novel written before Castle started working with Beckett and on the Heat series, I believe it sheds some light on Castle´s past. It seems that by joining Beckett he too became a hero in his own life, much like Derrick Storm on his many adventures. Choosing to publish this was, in my most humble opinion, a fantastic idea. Richard Castle is already a character one seems to easily bond...

This graphic novel “adaptation” of fictional author Richard Castle’s first book in the Derrick Storm series, Deadly Storm, was rushed. It didn’t allow for a lot of time to get to know Storm, but what did come through was a cross between Castle himself and Jeffrey Donovan’s Michael Weston, just not as kickass or amusing as that combination should be. Even Clara Strike, the inspiration for whom we recently met on the show, wasn’t as compelling as I expected. What I did like about this volume was t...

I was given this comic at a convention by someone and I am new to reading comics so this was a wonderful read for me. I scrutinized the panels, the artwork and the story, to understand the construction of how comic storytelling differs from novel storytelling. I thought the pacing was great and the storyline was very believable. I laughed out loud several times at the saltiness of the main character and his views on life. The characters were rich which I found very intriguing since there were so...

Quick read.

Ok, this is a tricky one. Overall, I didn't like it....but I did. So, bias on the table; I do love the show Castle and Kelly Sue DeConnick's script manages to make Derrick Storm sound like his fictional creator. The art, in places, seems to try and make him look like Nathan Fillion. That doesn't work so well. The art is the main problem here but I struggle to explain why. There is just something missing. It's not quite there in a way that makes you look at a page and think 'More could be going o...

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

The first adventure of Derrick Storm and it's straight to graphic novel unlike the other tie-in's. I think I would have preferred it to have been a novel rather than a graphic novel. The story is very rushed and could have done with a few more pages. The artwork wasn't the greatest. Most notable were the faces. Sometimes the characters looked like they had Downs Syndrome where in others then looked like they were trying to hide chestnuts in their cheeks.All in all in wasn't a great first outing,...

I can't say that I feel less confused now that I've read this, but it's good to get a little background. Lemme tell ya: it's a mistake to read these out of order.

I love Castle and enjoyed the Nikki Heat books so I was looking forward to seeing an adaptation of Castle's earlier work. But the story didn't really seem to be suited to this format. Why didn't they just release this as an actual novel? It would have made more sense and probably been way more fun, given Storm's narrative voice that was given pretty limited range here. The plot seemed chopped up, as though there were a lot of missing pieces. And I'm not sure why they couldn't have just gone a li...

I really enjoy the TV show "Castle" which lead me to the mistake of reading "Heat Wave", the first book of the Nikki Heat series penned by Richard Castle (who is played by Nathan Fillion). As much as I love Fillion, I did not like "Heat Wave" so I was iffy about reading a graphic from Marvel that was based on the fictional Derrick Storm books by Castle. But at the price tag of $2, I said why not?If I take a step back and simply read the graphic, it isn't bad. I chose to wipe the TV show and char...