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joshgauthier's review against another edition
3.0
*Galley received from Image*
"Golgotha" is a comic with great potential and some interesting characters which nevertheless doesn't manage to achieve anything truly unique or meaningful. The creative team - artists and writer alike - have clear talent. However, it feels like three volumes of this length might have been more effective for the content contained here - rather than just one.
For example - there are a couple pages of the story devoted to identifying and describing crew members on the ship. However, a couple pages later, the ship crashes and many of those characters are killed without ever making an on-page appearance. Throughout, the underlying character dynamics and subject matter are rushed through - telling a coherent story, but one that lacks any significant depth.
Instead, "Golgotha" delivers an episodic sci-fi story composed of religious fanatics, alien secrets, and a hardened military protagonist who is unwillingly made the hero of the story. These are all familiar elements and "Golgotha" does not deliver anything particularly new.
Altogether, it's not badly done. The story remains interesting and what is present is well put together. There are certainly moments throughout that display the talents of this creative team. Unfortunately, the end result simply feels lacking when comparing what it is to what it could have been had more time been taken to develop the possibilities of the story.
"Golgotha" is a comic with great potential and some interesting characters which nevertheless doesn't manage to achieve anything truly unique or meaningful. The creative team - artists and writer alike - have clear talent. However, it feels like three volumes of this length might have been more effective for the content contained here - rather than just one.
For example - there are a couple pages of the story devoted to identifying and describing crew members on the ship. However, a couple pages later, the ship crashes and many of those characters are killed without ever making an on-page appearance. Throughout, the underlying character dynamics and subject matter are rushed through - telling a coherent story, but one that lacks any significant depth.
Instead, "Golgotha" delivers an episodic sci-fi story composed of religious fanatics, alien secrets, and a hardened military protagonist who is unwillingly made the hero of the story. These are all familiar elements and "Golgotha" does not deliver anything particularly new.
Altogether, it's not badly done. The story remains interesting and what is present is well put together. There are certainly moments throughout that display the talents of this creative team. Unfortunately, the end result simply feels lacking when comparing what it is to what it could have been had more time been taken to develop the possibilities of the story.
nightxade's review
3.0
GOLGOTHA's Kickstarter came out right about the time I started playing Mass Effect Andromeda. Both stories follow a group of scientist and military types sent off to colonize another galaxy. In Mass Effect, the group arrive to find their promised land in ruins and a deadly alien species wanting to shoot first and shoot again. GOLGOTHA's folks arrive to find that humanity is already there. As in, while the passengers puttered along in cryosleep for almost a century, technology on earth surpassed the Golgotha's technology and humans had already successfully colonized the planet. That doesn't leave much for soldier Michael Lawton to do -- until the rebellion kicks up a stink with explosions and all that. Turns out, the utopia isn't, unsurprisingly, all it seems to be, and now Lawton has to go find out why.
As far as concept and science goes, I liked this story in theory, but in execution, it leaves a bit to be desired. The cast of characters makes a big effort to win diversity points, only to drop back down to the standard mostly white folks cast just a few pages later. The biblical analogies and imagery are a bit too glaring, and by the time the Big Secret is revealed, I found myself uninterested in Lawton's rationale to invest further in the story.
As far as concept and science goes, I liked this story in theory, but in execution, it leaves a bit to be desired. The cast of characters makes a big effort to win diversity points, only to drop back down to the standard mostly white folks cast just a few pages later. The biblical analogies and imagery are a bit too glaring, and by the time the Big Secret is revealed, I found myself uninterested in Lawton's rationale to invest further in the story.
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