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A review by trike
The Fox: Freak Magnet by Mark Waid, Dean Haspiel
1.0
Mark Waid mashes together an old comic book character, reimagined as a poor man's Spider-Man, with Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos (spoilers, sorry), and makes something completely uninteresting.
The humor falls flat, the story is unevenly paced and none of the characters are interesting in any way.
I'm not up on my Archie Comics history, so I don't know if The Fox is one of the original characters from that era of crazy superhero creation between Superman's debut and the entrance of the US into WWII, but The Shield definitely is.
But I've been trying to force myself to read this for months, which is ridiculous, so I just went ahead and finished it today. It should be fun, but it's just dumb.
I've mentioned in other reviews of Waid's stuff that his work is binary: he's either on or off, hit or miss. And this, I'm sorry to say, is a gigantic miss.
The humor falls flat, the story is unevenly paced and none of the characters are interesting in any way.
I'm not up on my Archie Comics history, so I don't know if The Fox is one of the original characters from that era of crazy superhero creation between Superman's debut and the entrance of the US into WWII, but The Shield definitely is.
But I've been trying to force myself to read this for months, which is ridiculous, so I just went ahead and finished it today. It should be fun, but it's just dumb.
I've mentioned in other reviews of Waid's stuff that his work is binary: he's either on or off, hit or miss. And this, I'm sorry to say, is a gigantic miss.