It really felt like a story that you needed a lot more of the characters to appreciate. It felt like you were jumping in the middle of something instead of building to it.
I'm struggling through this book right now. I posted this in a previous thread:
Does anyone else find the characters and their dialogue/narration to be lacking? The writing in general? Sometimes it's like panels are missing between two pieces of dialogue, or the characters are having separate conversions in the same room, flinging proverbs at each other without any passion. There also, at times, seems to be a disconnect with the art. The character expressions don't line up that well with what they're saying.
I'm halfway through. It spends more time trying to be erudite than trying to be cohesive or intriguing.
The first two issues are subpar, so 1/3 of the comic kind of sucks already. Issue three seems to be where there's a consensus of it being good.
It kind of reminds me of the first Luther Arkwright book, with the non-linear beginning, jumping back and forth in time, the shifting art style, getting into the different factions, and of course the war commentary, except Luther Arkwright was interesting from the very first issue.
It's more congruent with the writing, even though Talbot was still learning how to draw. Morian is more skilled here than Talbot was there, but there's something just off about his art.
This comic also reminded me of The Winter Men, which had Soviets in power armor. That's another comic I enjoyed more.
Same thought I while trying to read. It was nothing more than boring info dumps about this alt history. I was expecting a lot more action to go with it.
it was alright, I enjoyed bits like the Russian Utopia in issue 5 or the Battle scene in issue 4 ect
I liked the idea of it, felt a bit half-baked unfortunately. The story it wanted to tell was too lofty for a 6-issue miniseries so it just sorta ends on a whimper. I honestly thought there was going to be more before finding out it was the final issue.
Damn, I had high hopes for it. It seems like modern writers are incapable of writing something actually solid.
It really needed to be like twice as long. They would introduce a character and then kill them off before you had it any reason to care about them. For a book that had really cool characters in it, they didn't do enough with them
it's pretty decent for a writer's first outing on doing a full series, not to say it doesn't have a large number of flaws it does but it's better than most modern writers accomplish in a first-published book
I liked the idea of it, felt a bit half-baked unfortunately. The story it wanted to tell was too lofty for a 6-issue miniseries so it just sorta ends on a whimper. I honestly thought there was going to be more before finding out it was the final issue.
There's some gigantic homosexual on LOCG who thinks this and Deniz Camp are absolutely brilliant. Raves about this, gives Hickman rimjobs and talks about MENA people constantly. Comics are fricking doomed.
>expecting anything of value from an Image book
It was one of those
>Dude you gotta read it it's like the watchmen but with a satisfying end
Never trusting that prick Jerry again
>a satisfying end
of all the things I would say about 20th Century Men it's ending was the weakest part of it
Jerry?
Art and writing were pretentious I stopped reading the story time a few pages in
It really felt like a story that you needed a lot more of the characters to appreciate. It felt like you were jumping in the middle of something instead of building to it.
I'm struggling through this book right now. I posted this in a previous thread:
Does anyone else find the characters and their dialogue/narration to be lacking? The writing in general? Sometimes it's like panels are missing between two pieces of dialogue, or the characters are having separate conversions in the same room, flinging proverbs at each other without any passion. There also, at times, seems to be a disconnect with the art. The character expressions don't line up that well with what they're saying.
I'm halfway through. It spends more time trying to be erudite than trying to be cohesive or intriguing.
The first two issues are subpar, so 1/3 of the comic kind of sucks already. Issue three seems to be where there's a consensus of it being good.
It kind of reminds me of the first Luther Arkwright book, with the non-linear beginning, jumping back and forth in time, the shifting art style, getting into the different factions, and of course the war commentary, except Luther Arkwright was interesting from the very first issue.
arkwight also has much better art
It's more congruent with the writing, even though Talbot was still learning how to draw. Morian is more skilled here than Talbot was there, but there's something just off about his art.
This comic also reminded me of The Winter Men, which had Soviets in power armor. That's another comic I enjoyed more.
Same thought I while trying to read. It was nothing more than boring info dumps about this alt history. I was expecting a lot more action to go with it.
I like the art, concept, and dialogue well enough but you're right that the plot just sort of meanders along
The characters were great, 6 issues just wasn't enough to tell the story
So nobody really liked this?
Great premise, poor execution
Damn, I had high hopes for it. It seems like modern writers are incapable of writing something actually solid.
It really needed to be like twice as long. They would introduce a character and then kill them off before you had it any reason to care about them. For a book that had really cool characters in it, they didn't do enough with them
I'm not sure that more issues would have improved the comic. More like it needs to be restructured.
it's pretty decent for a writer's first outing on doing a full series, not to say it doesn't have a large number of flaws it does but it's better than most modern writers accomplish in a first-published book
it was alright, I enjoyed bits like the Russian Utopia in issue 5 or the Battle scene in issue 4 ect
I liked the idea of it, felt a bit half-baked unfortunately. The story it wanted to tell was too lofty for a 6-issue miniseries so it just sorta ends on a whimper. I honestly thought there was going to be more before finding out it was the final issue.
>nothing happens
Sounds like the perfect Netflix pitch then
There's some gigantic homosexual on LOCG who thinks this and Deniz Camp are absolutely brilliant. Raves about this, gives Hickman rimjobs and talks about MENA people constantly. Comics are fricking doomed.
All of the positive reviews I've seen of this don't say much.
I wish these fricking comics that get compared to Watchmen were at least half as good as Watchmen.
I'm going to try to finish it soon.
Anyone read Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E.?
literally W.H.O.
And then what happened?
the end of history
I sharted.