Reviews

The Middleman - Volume 5: The Pan-Universal Parental Reconciliation by Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Les McClaine, Armando M. Zanker

linguisticali's review against another edition

3.0

I backed this, and then my copy was delayed for months by a postal strike, so I've been waiting for this for ages! But ultimately, it didn't blow me away. I found it pretty confusing and hard to follow (although I'll read it again at some point and maybe it'll make more sense), and it lacked a lot of the charm of the original comics and the show for me. As with The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse, I also found it a bit sad and dark. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I watch the show because it makes me happy, so it's not really what I love about it.

I'm glad I own this, and glad I backed it and so get to feel like I helped bring it into the world. It does have a lot of the characteristic humour and references, and I liked the ending

- because I'm a big softy more than because I thought it was all that good. It actually felt a bit tacked on

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I'll give it another chance some time, but right now it just wasn't quite what I was hoping for.

goodbyepuckpie's review

4.0

This was fun; I loved the easter eggs (and the guide to references at the back), and it was lovely to get one more taste of the Middleman -- the blend of the two universes was done very nicely.