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A review by clintoon
Abe Sapien: Dark and Terrible Volume 2 by Mike Mignola, Scott Allie
2.0
Dark and Terrible has Abe traveling across America, helping people out of supernatural jams. He does some soul searching and becomes really emo. He questions who he is and wonders how he should go about figuring that out. It drags on. An egotistical villian, meanwhile, stalks Abe and continually goes on about his past exploits that make him so great, it's really annoying. The whole story has an air of being try-hard and edgy. When we finally learn about Abe's origin, it happens in the last pages with no lead up, followed by an anti climactic battle. I was looking forward to this series but the writers do not know what to do with Abe at all. A particularly bad chapter is the one where Abe hangs out with Megan, staring at clouds and being really emo with each other.
There is so much build up in this series of Abe wondering who is, what his identity is now that he remembers a past life that he doesn't relate to anymore. But the continual flashbacks of his past iterations as a person get really tiresome. Grace accuses him of having something dark inside himself, but it's only because he's not in denial that literal hell on earth is happening. It doesn't make you dark if you point out there are giant demons destroying the world instead of pretending like everything is fine.
I haven't read this series before so I don't know what happens after this, but if SPOILER Strobl is actually dead from that short battle with Abe after having to listen to him talk about how great he is for the duration of the volume, then he went out like a chump. I'm glad, he was annoying, but still...
There is so much build up in this series of Abe wondering who is, what his identity is now that he remembers a past life that he doesn't relate to anymore. But the continual flashbacks of his past iterations as a person get really tiresome. Grace accuses him of having something dark inside himself, but it's only because he's not in denial that literal hell on earth is happening. It doesn't make you dark if you point out there are giant demons destroying the world instead of pretending like everything is fine.
I haven't read this series before so I don't know what happens after this, but if SPOILER Strobl is actually dead from that short battle with Abe after having to listen to him talk about how great he is for the duration of the volume, then he went out like a chump. I'm glad, he was annoying, but still...