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A review by sofrosune
The Shadow: Leviathan by Simon Spurrier, Dan Watters
3.0
The first comic I've read since I was a child.
I despised the references to real current united statian events, what's even the point narratively speaking? I'll tell you: there is not. It's just the writers that instead of writing by inspiration, they vent off, release their resentment, their anger at real life, like an emo kid that cuts hinself.
There is obviously Donald Trump being drawn here. THEY DRAWED HIM IN. The references to U.S.A. issues and non-issues are cringe worthy, or lazy writing, or useless, and stand in the way of what could have being a good story. It also felt like it was written by two people, because at some points the writing was amateur/cringe-like and in others it was fine and in character.
This could have been a 3.5 or 4 stars if it were done with proper writing skills, proper characterization, less abstract/figurative dialog --this is a comic goddammit, not a Tool song--, and an easier to follow narrative. I did not get what Leviathan was. And I blame the comic for that.
Since I consider that this comic has re-readability value --in part for being hard to follow-- I give it 3 stars instead of 2 and a half.
I despised the references to real current united statian events, what's even the point narratively speaking? I'll tell you: there is not. It's just the writers that instead of writing by inspiration, they vent off, release their resentment, their anger at real life, like an emo kid that cuts hinself.
There is obviously Donald Trump being drawn here. THEY DRAWED HIM IN. The references to U.S.A. issues and non-issues are cringe worthy, or lazy writing, or useless, and stand in the way of what could have being a good story. It also felt like it was written by two people, because at some points the writing was amateur/cringe-like and in others it was fine and in character.
This could have been a 3.5 or 4 stars if it were done with proper writing skills, proper characterization, less abstract/figurative dialog --this is a comic goddammit, not a Tool song--, and an easier to follow narrative. I did not get what Leviathan was. And I blame the comic for that.
Since I consider that this comic has re-readability value --in part for being hard to follow-- I give it 3 stars instead of 2 and a half.