Salvation Run #'s 2, 3, & 4

Todays second batch of reviews are Salvation Run #'s 2, 3, & 4

Salvation Run #2 is written by Bill Willingham and the art is by Sean Chen.

Sean Chen is hitting it out of the ballpark with the art on this book. Man can this man draw his fucking villains. It really is fantastic.

Willingham writing is OK but sometimes I think the man is in love with his own words. I mean he by far not into the self love as much as a Claremont (i mean christ sometimes i think chris claremont has a bottle of KY that directly comes out of his pores) but i feel like he doesn't trust the artist to complete the story for him.

The story is getting there. I really didn't love issue one but it was already preordered up until 3 so i though i would keep trying it. This issue centers around a lot of B listers still finding there way on the prison planet. The saving grace of this book is the Characterization of the Joker towards the end which i think is spot on.

Issue 2 and 3 are written by Matt Sturges and the art is still by Sean Chen.

The art seems to be getting better and better here. I truly think that issue four was amazing.

Now the writing i was expecting to be lackluster. I mean Willingham is an established writer and Sturges i never heard of. ( then again until a few years ago i never really paid much attention to art or writer so I'm sure there are tons of people that i never heard of). Boy was i wrong. Sturges seems to be just as good if not better then willingham in this book. he really lets the art do its job.

The story now shifts the villains into two camps. Either Jokers semi Psychopathic group that want to control the island or Luthors scientific group that wishes to find a way off. It really is a great analysis of the two villains groups. Plus issue four is a monkey battle Royale and how the fuck can you go wrong with that.

I was kind of hoping that this book would be as bad as Gotham underground because then i was going to completely stop buying any mini and if i heard anything good then i would later buy the trade.

Oh well it is not like i wouldn't buy Reign in Hell that features Etrigan on the cover of #1.

Talk to you later,

TJ