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A review by stelepami
War Cry by Mark Powers, Jim Butcher
2.0
Ick. Ick. The story had good bones, and as I tried to imagine it as if it had been written as a novel instead, and that was awesome! The art was super distracting and frankly, not good. I've seen better Harrys in the other graphic Dresden Files. There were a lot of problematic faces throughout with strange angles on them. I'm not saying that I could have done better, or even as well, but I'm saying that I expected better.
Then there was the oversexualization of everyone. I get it that it's a comics style, but still! I imagine Harry as decently handsome in a rough and slightly gawky way, but not with a six pack and bulging thews. The cover art featured in here was much closer to my conception of him. But it wasn't only the sexy, unreal bodies everyone sported, it was how the women were constantly posing in unnatural poses that were completely unreal for the moment the story was conveying. You're under attack by a bunch of vampires and scared out of your mind so you're going to stand there in your heels and miniskirt, stick out your butt and boobs and splay your legs while your blouse shows off your push-up-bra cleavage while you awkwardly point a gun out the window? It makes no sense. And I don't feel like Butcher wrote it with that intent.
Then let's talk about the coloring. I'm somehow going to pretend that I'm not pissed off about Harry's duster being brown instead of black because it still looks cool. But we need to examine what exactly happened to the guy named Pepper, who appears to be of Asian descent. He's yellow. Almost green at times.
In short, it was a cool story with distractingly disappointing art.
Then there was the oversexualization of everyone. I get it that it's a comics style, but still! I imagine Harry as decently handsome in a rough and slightly gawky way, but not with a six pack and bulging thews. The cover art featured in here was much closer to my conception of him. But it wasn't only the sexy, unreal bodies everyone sported, it was how the women were constantly posing in unnatural poses that were completely unreal for the moment the story was conveying. You're under attack by a bunch of vampires and scared out of your mind so you're going to stand there in your heels and miniskirt, stick out your butt and boobs and splay your legs while your blouse shows off your push-up-bra cleavage while you awkwardly point a gun out the window? It makes no sense. And I don't feel like Butcher wrote it with that intent.
Then let's talk about the coloring. I'm somehow going to pretend that I'm not pissed off about Harry's duster being brown instead of black because it still looks cool. But we need to examine what exactly happened to the guy named Pepper, who appears to be of Asian descent. He's yellow. Almost green at times.
In short, it was a cool story with distractingly disappointing art.