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A review by unladylike
Omega the Unknown by Jonathan Lethem
3.0
What a strange book this was. It starts slow and is confusing as fuck for the first couple of chapters. Once it starts to become apparent what's real and what isn't, around chapter 3 or 4, it gets a lot more engaging and enjoyable. Amazingly, this story takes place in the Marvel universe, and in Manhattan no less. But other than one reference to the Baxter Building and another to the Avengers, the characters and plot seem to exist on their own, isolated and unknown to anyone you might be familiar with in superhero comics.
Jonathan Lethem is certainly an interesting and talented writer, sometimes giving the feel of Grant Morrison's great Doom Patrol comics. I'd like to give this 4 stars based on my feeling of eagerness and interest for the second half of the book's ten chapters, but because it starts so confusingly and the ending is a wordless, strange, mysterious mess, I'll leave it at 3 stars.
Jonathan Lethem is certainly an interesting and talented writer, sometimes giving the feel of Grant Morrison's great Doom Patrol comics. I'd like to give this 4 stars based on my feeling of eagerness and interest for the second half of the book's ten chapters, but because it starts so confusingly and the ending is a wordless, strange, mysterious mess, I'll leave it at 3 stars.