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unladylike's review
3.0
The Astonishing aspect of this book is the beautiful artwork throughout by Mike Choi.
Points for making a strange tale involving a handful of the immortal "Celestials" mess with each other. I always hope to find more good stories with these characters, and after recently reading a few books with Champion, Eternity, and to a lesser extent, Infinity and the Chaos/Order twins, it was fun to see the Stranger, the Collector, and Ego the Living Planet entwined in a plot and manipulating one another. If you've been following the MCU, you've seen the Hollywood versions of Collector and Ego, played by Benicio del Toro and Kurt Russell, respectively, and might be interested in a different portrayal of them.
Minus points for that story actually not being all that great. It's a slow-moving clash between two twin planets that were separated at birth and now resemble those Mad Balls toys from the '80s that had slick, hyped-up TV commercials but were just rubber balls with grotesque, gaping monster faces painted and sculpted onto them. (Excuse me while I go down a Google, ebay, and archived nerdnewsblog rabbit hole of memorable toys from my childhood...I might have to get a Stinkor figure from '85 cuz his smell, while playing in my neighbor's sandbox with his huge He-Man collection, is deeply embedded in my toddler memory...)
Plus points for introducing/including a different black goddess! Negative points for making her weak, demure, and fawning over Thor.
Check this book out for the cosmic art and characters, but don't expect the most riveting story of the Thunder God.
Points for making a strange tale involving a handful of the immortal "Celestials" mess with each other. I always hope to find more good stories with these characters, and after recently reading a few books with Champion, Eternity, and to a lesser extent, Infinity and the Chaos/Order twins, it was fun to see the Stranger, the Collector, and Ego the Living Planet entwined in a plot and manipulating one another. If you've been following the MCU, you've seen the Hollywood versions of Collector and Ego, played by Benicio del Toro and Kurt Russell, respectively, and might be interested in a different portrayal of them.
Minus points for that story actually not being all that great. It's a slow-moving clash between two twin planets that were separated at birth and now resemble those Mad Balls toys from the '80s that had slick, hyped-up TV commercials but were just rubber balls with grotesque, gaping monster faces painted and sculpted onto them. (Excuse me while I go down a Google, ebay, and archived nerdnewsblog rabbit hole of memorable toys from my childhood...I might have to get a Stinkor figure from '85 cuz his smell, while playing in my neighbor's sandbox with his huge He-Man collection, is deeply embedded in my toddler memory...)
Plus points for introducing/including a different black goddess! Negative points for making her weak, demure, and fawning over Thor.
Check this book out for the cosmic art and characters, but don't expect the most riveting story of the Thunder God.
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