Reviews

Prophet, Volume 4: Joining by Brandon Graham, Simon Roy, James Stokoe, Giannis Milonogiannis

pmileham's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Really losing interest in this series. 

ppetropoulakis's review against another edition

4.0

The crazy complicated story the John Prophets continues. As usual the art is amazing borrowing from the styles of all the artists responsible for this series.

grid's review against another edition

4.0

This was a thick one! Some parts of it were better than other parts. About 1/3rd is sort of an almanac, with page after page of single paragraph explanations of characters or genetic races or space ships... super interesting stuff. I almost enjoyed that more than the actual story bits.

As always, the art is spectacular.

thomw's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

crookedtreehouse's review against another edition

3.0

I enjoy Prophet when it's this weird, barely explained excursion where we follow a clone or two through an alien landscape where they reach their largely unsatisfying goal, and then we start anew with a new clone. I really don't care about the Youngblood/Youngstar continuity, or any of the Liefeld-verse characters. In this volume the story "comes together" and then we are shown the Missing History between issue 19 (which came out as volume 2 #8 back in 1995) and issue 20, which came out in 2012.

I really didn't care. I didn't want to know how/if it connected to the old series, and I found myself barely looking at the text on the Strikefile issues at the back of the volume, instead viewing it as an art project with nonsense words attached to it.

I'm till glad I read it, as there was some stellar art, and cool concepts but both the continuity potential and its execution completely failed to keep my attention.

If you loved the Liefeld verse and are curious as to how it connects to this, then this might be an A+ book for you.

captainyaht's review against another edition

adventurous challenging inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

ajam's review against another edition

5.0

5★
Prophet #39–45, Prophet: Strikefile #1,2

⩨NFO
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noysh's review against another edition

4.0

The Prophet comics are imaginative and compelling as they are strange. In a future and galactic locales that are so alien from our own modern day, the human race struggles to survive in a form that is, in many ways, hardly recognizable and at the same time resonantly us. I haven't encountered a lot of tales resembling these, and that's a shame.

alexanderp's review

challenging dark slow-paced

5.0

This might be my favorite volume of the series. So many side stories that flesh out this universe and also provides the most backstory as to what is to come. 

hypops's review

3.0

Brandon Graham’s collaborators—Simon Roy, Giannis Milonogiannis, and Farel Dalrymple—take on bigger creative roles in this volume, often trading off artistic duties from page to page and even panel to panel (with a few other incredible creators stepping in here and there). But now that the book’s strangeness has become more familiar, it’s all beginning to feel much more like an intellectual exercise rather than a shared hallucination.