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frasersimons 's review for:
The Case of the Missing Men
by Kris Bertin
This was a really weird book.
I haven’t read much, or maybe any of these kinds of graphic novels before. Maybe it’s pulling from tropes from Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, or Scooby Doo? But it literally doesn’t make sense, even when you just go with it.
About half of the questions raised are answered. Some casual racism thrown in there for good measure just to make it more confusing. Are we trying to make this “realistic” and people are racist newfies or is this all supernatural and, if that’s the case, maybe make a point with the racism or take it out?
But more than that, it’s just not communicating genre or expectations well and it routinely spends time on stuff that doesn’t matter, then does an exposition dump where they got all these clues we didn’t need to see them getting. Suddenly they’ve got a new contrived lead that takes them to a contrived place. The plot beats for an actual mystery, I don’t know what this is? Maybe I’m just completely missing what the is is; it’s completely possible. But it’s still a mystery, I assume. And in that case, at the very least the plot beats are contrived and mishandled, the pacing is terrible, and the dialogue is out of a B movie.
The only thing I can is, maybe just like a B movie, it’s so bad it’s supposed to be enjoyable?
I haven’t read much, or maybe any of these kinds of graphic novels before. Maybe it’s pulling from tropes from Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, or Scooby Doo? But it literally doesn’t make sense, even when you just go with it.
About half of the questions raised are answered. Some casual racism thrown in there for good measure just to make it more confusing. Are we trying to make this “realistic” and people are racist newfies or is this all supernatural and, if that’s the case, maybe make a point with the racism or take it out?
But more than that, it’s just not communicating genre or expectations well and it routinely spends time on stuff that doesn’t matter, then does an exposition dump where they got all these clues we didn’t need to see them getting. Suddenly they’ve got a new contrived lead that takes them to a contrived place. The plot beats for an actual mystery, I don’t know what this is? Maybe I’m just completely missing what the is is; it’s completely possible. But it’s still a mystery, I assume. And in that case, at the very least the plot beats are contrived and mishandled, the pacing is terrible, and the dialogue is out of a B movie.
The only thing I can is, maybe just like a B movie, it’s so bad it’s supposed to be enjoyable?