February 17, 2017
I just adjusted the size of the comic, and my initial change pulled it to be massive - and fill all of the space with the comic - the I downsized it to make it tiny so I would need only a few lines to really express the awfulness of the reading of the comic. In fact, as I am typing this, I am more than seriously considering retaining the size of the font as a large one to decrease the amount of description and review I need to do. Them I look over at the fact that I will have to read another seven of these before I am done and sigh deeply. Especially when I just read the darned Wolverine graphic novel over the limited series adventure in Japan - that is then backed by X-Men 172 and 173 - something that I am certain I mentioned in another review of Valiant comics. These reads are not fun. Not enjoyable. Not good. Not pleasurable. And I know that when I continue reading I will not encounter mostly great comics. But when I read comics like these it isn't surprising to me that this universe folded. It's slow, painful, unrealistic, and bad. It's tough for me to see how this same guy could have written Harbinger that almost immediately reached into me - and Archer & Armstrong that was brilliant. Let me try to review - just as soon as I downsize this thing.
I also read a review of GG 1 out there that essentially said that reading this put comics back a few years. Yes.
Now back to Hoyle on this.
We're going on a mission to fight a tar monster of some sort that goes ARGH and RRR! It's like a Scooby Doo episode of the movie. Without the charm and humor.
Written by someone that probably has no real understanding of reality - this comic is bad. Really bad. I did like the destruction of the tar beast by sticking the giant sign out of the back of its head. But then - all the homeless people disappeared, the bridge and the fallout from the cement fall to the ground - and of course, the tar monster melts away, right?
This one feels like the comic never really happened - and certainly is the exact opposite of everything in the world outside of your window set up to establish. It has a moment or two in its lines. Could be worth expolring how a few of the heroes don't even really want to be heroes. And the end with the character from 1.5 - with the wings appeared - it looked like it had located a tiny fraction of its heart. But for the most part it is a terrible failure.
I also read a review of GG 1 out there that essentially said that reading this put comics back a few years. Yes.
Now back to Hoyle on this.
We're going on a mission to fight a tar monster of some sort that goes ARGH and RRR! It's like a Scooby Doo episode of the movie. Without the charm and humor.
Written by someone that probably has no real understanding of reality - this comic is bad. Really bad. I did like the destruction of the tar beast by sticking the giant sign out of the back of its head. But then - all the homeless people disappeared, the bridge and the fallout from the cement fall to the ground - and of course, the tar monster melts away, right?
This one feels like the comic never really happened - and certainly is the exact opposite of everything in the world outside of your window set up to establish. It has a moment or two in its lines. Could be worth expolring how a few of the heroes don't even really want to be heroes. And the end with the character from 1.5 - with the wings appeared - it looked like it had located a tiny fraction of its heart. But for the most part it is a terrible failure.