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A review by nerdinthelibrary
Savage Avengers, Vol. 1: City of Sickles by Gerry Duggan
3.0
I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed. This isn't egregiously bad in any ways and I definitely understand why someone would really enjoy this, but it did very little for me. It's basically just where a bunch of Marvel's anti-heroes end up in the Savage Lands and team up to fight an evil wizard.
The plot was more or less nonexistent and the characters ranged from fine to barely characters. Venom in particular spent basically the whole volume just being used as a prop to make sure other characters didn't die.
If it were just all of that then this would easily be a 2-star, but the art was really what pushed this up to a 3. As I said, this isn't an overly plotty comic and it focuses mostly on action, which Mike Deodato clearly excels at. I've never read anything with his art before but now I kind of want to because he's fantastic at drawing action and gore in a way that a lot of other comic artists think they are.
Unfortunately, other than the great art style, this really had nothing going for it. Nothing bad but not much good either.
The plot was more or less nonexistent and the characters ranged from fine to barely characters. Venom in particular spent basically the whole volume just being used as a prop to make sure other characters didn't die.
If it were just all of that then this would easily be a 2-star, but the art was really what pushed this up to a 3. As I said, this isn't an overly plotty comic and it focuses mostly on action, which Mike Deodato clearly excels at. I've never read anything with his art before but now I kind of want to because he's fantastic at drawing action and gore in a way that a lot of other comic artists think they are.
Unfortunately, other than the great art style, this really had nothing going for it. Nothing bad but not much good either.