A review by ebil
Nemesis by Mark Millar

2.0

The premise is interesting, but the plot, action, and characters all fail to impress. None of the various cartoonishly two-dimensional characters elicit a reaction from the reader or give us a reason to be invested in the story's outcome; maybe the appeal is supposed to be like that of a plotless bloody horror movie, and yet the oh-so-shocking destruction and violence feel rote, procedural, somehow flat. Even as a satire or deconstruction of the excessively-gritty comic story, it fails; satire, too, requires some reason for the reader to care how the story turns out and keep reading. The art is good, so two stars for that, but otherwise you're better off giving this a pass; there are far better villain-centric stories out there.