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Fallen Angels (2019-) #1 by Bryan Edward Hill, Szymon Kudranski, Ashley Witter
1 review
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dark
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
1.0
I wish this was better, I want Kwannon/Psylocke finally have her own story, because her orgion is a racist mess but this was very lackluster.
Art&Paneling: Lets start with the positive, the paneling itself is so basic that it does not make the story more complicate to follow then it is already written. The idea of the borders is something I havent seen much so its interesting even if the result is overbearing and distracting partly cause the content of the panels is so badly (or at best average) stadged. There already big buts in this small postive but the art itself is nothing but not my thing, the porpotions of the bodys are awkard, the choice of extreme close ups of mouths and one eyes, uncomfortable and for me without meaning, the coloring makes skin look plasticy and unreal, the characters are barly integrated into the backgrounds, and there is no sense of place in the comic at the whole. There is the classic "ass and tit" pose problem. The character designs are flat and because i am not good with colour differencing I even had problems figuring out if was Laura Kinney or Kwannon in some panels. The action scenes are hard to read due to chose of colour and shadowing.
Story: Kwannons backstory as a assasin trained from childhood, and given a life of hardship with heavy emphasize on lack of agency and (bodily) autonomy is not really a unique story in comics, that doesnt mean it has to be bad, I read a ton of story with the same basic premise of: who am i? what parts of my trauma can i let go and what can reclaim? and how do it? how do i learn to interact with people on my own terms, and built real connections?
its not well done here. The dialoge feels overblown and repeative. There is very little pay off to anything. The side characters are not bringing anything to the story. The heavy use christian mthology without Any explorattion in context of Psylocks culture background feels just plain weird and tone deaf. There is no real exploration of Apoth and his path to identity - specially with the abrupt ending, he is just shot. The extra snippets of interview etc about the "techdrug" look like they might have wanted to say something about something but it does not bleed into the story itself.
Art&Paneling: Lets start with the positive, the paneling itself is so basic that it does not make the story more complicate to follow then it is already written. The idea of the borders is something I havent seen much so its interesting even if the result is overbearing and distracting partly cause the content of the panels is so badly (or at best average) stadged. There already big buts in this small postive but the art itself is nothing but not my thing, the porpotions of the bodys are awkard, the choice of extreme close ups of mouths and one eyes, uncomfortable and for me without meaning, the coloring makes skin look plasticy and unreal, the characters are barly integrated into the backgrounds, and there is no sense of place in the comic at the whole. There is the classic "ass and tit" pose problem. The character designs are flat and because i am not good with colour differencing I even had problems figuring out if was Laura Kinney or Kwannon in some panels. The action scenes are hard to read due to chose of colour and shadowing.
Story: Kwannons backstory as a assasin trained from childhood, and given a life of hardship with heavy emphasize on lack of agency and (bodily) autonomy is not really a unique story in comics, that doesnt mean it has to be bad, I read a ton of story with the same basic premise of: who am i? what parts of my trauma can i let go and what can reclaim? and how do it? how do i learn to interact with people on my own terms, and built real connections?
its not well done here. The dialoge feels overblown and repeative. There is very little pay off to anything. The side characters are not bringing anything to the story. The heavy use christian mthology without Any explorattion in context of Psylocks culture background feels just plain weird and tone deaf. There is no real exploration of Apoth and his path to identity - specially with the abrupt ending, he is just shot. The extra snippets of interview etc about the "techdrug" look like they might have wanted to say something about something but it does not bleed into the story itself.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death and Death
Minor: Drug use
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