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dkmode's review
1.0
This is such a weird miniseries.
The first issue is a brisk read, setting up an intriguing premise - the Suicide Squad in mech suits, by way of "who watches the watchmen" task force - and a promising group of scoundrels who conflict the minute they lay eyes on each other.
From issue 2 on, there is a shocking dip in quality, and the rest of it is a completely unentertaining slog. Dialogue becomes laborious and overly expository, stakes are lowered, and focus is put on the least interesting characters. The whole point of the Sentinel Squad - a government-owned superhero replacement squad for when the usual teams break up or die - is never explored, the main skirmish instead being a flat romp through the Savage Lands. Meanwhile, action scenes are not only drawn with no sense of dynamic, but are also extremely confusing since the various Sentinel models look the same.
There's also a bizarre technical issue that I've never seen in any other comic, wherein word balloons that have obviously been designed to be cut off by the panel borders are never aligned properly, leading them to either overlap or not quite reach them. This is a problem in every issue and I have no idea how it got through editing.
It seems like after the first issue of this, everyone involved with it basically stopped caring.
The first issue is a brisk read, setting up an intriguing premise - the Suicide Squad in mech suits, by way of "who watches the watchmen" task force - and a promising group of scoundrels who conflict the minute they lay eyes on each other.
From issue 2 on, there is a shocking dip in quality, and the rest of it is a completely unentertaining slog. Dialogue becomes laborious and overly expository, stakes are lowered, and focus is put on the least interesting characters. The whole point of the Sentinel Squad - a government-owned superhero replacement squad for when the usual teams break up or die - is never explored, the main skirmish instead being a flat romp through the Savage Lands. Meanwhile, action scenes are not only drawn with no sense of dynamic, but are also extremely confusing since the various Sentinel models look the same.
There's also a bizarre technical issue that I've never seen in any other comic, wherein word balloons that have obviously been designed to be cut off by the panel borders are never aligned properly, leading them to either overlap or not quite reach them. This is a problem in every issue and I have no idea how it got through editing.
It seems like after the first issue of this, everyone involved with it basically stopped caring.
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