This book e was written and pencilled by Darwyn Cooke
First the art. Fucking amazing. Although I have read in some reviews that people think it is kirbyesqe that leaves me to wonder if said reviewers have ever looked at anything Kirby drew. That being said i think that Cooke has his own style which is astonishing. the splash [pages are beautiful to take in and the attention to detail in what seems (but most definitely is not) a very simplistic style. I have not read or seen anything else that Cooke has done but i will be looking for his spirit stuff after seeing the style in this book.
Now to the writing. It is very well written. You can tell each characters voice and see a definition in character by what they are saying. They way he writes wonder woman makes me hope that he would one day be a writer on the main wonder woman book. Well done sir! I applaud your writing ability.
Now to the shit oops i mean story. This is where this book fell apart. The story starts off on an island where dinosaurs still live. A military groups is marooned there and their leader saves everyone else and decides to take on the beast himself. We are then thrown into a superman and wonder woman story where they are in SE Asia trying to help people retake there home land from a horrible military group. We meet Hal Jordan who is getting employed by Ferris Air and the Martian Manhunter who is getting accustomed to living as a human. Later we meet Rick Flagg and the Challengers of the unknown as well.
Now here is the problem i had with this story. This is a $19.99 trade that is basically all set up and nothing else. We meet the characters; We see them interact a little; We see the beginnings of a Story; End of story go spend $19.99 if you want to see the whole thing. Now before you start ripping me a new asshole let me explain that I know this is Vol 1 of a two part story but i feel that for the price tag that is on this thing we should have gotten little more the a "how do you do" from the fucking characters. I hope this picks up. Although this was another instance where i am glad that my wife is a librarian because even though i do not get to look at the beautiful art for the rest of my life I was able to get it for free by checking it out of the library.
Talk to you later. Today was DCBS Box day
TJ
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