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A review by meepelous
Midnighter and Apollo by Steve Orlando
3.0
As someone who is only reading this book for the hype, I would rate this book as very good for people who are jumping into these characters for the first time because of the hype. OK, maybe not your first super-hero title ever but it was nice to jump into something so far outside of my general superhero wheelhouse and to be taken on a journey that wasn't too hard to follow because you were supposed to have read a million other books first... IDK
Pretty standard and average for a superhero comic (which I certainly enjoy but is what it is) it did fall into the unfortunately large category of m/m books that I have a hard time getting into. One of the few things that really reminds me that I am pansexual is the fact that I've always had a harder time getting into m/m romances, I do try and still pick them up from time to time and they do sometimes strike my fancy, but yeah - that's my big subjective take on it.
Art-wise I am noticing that, besides being rushed, being much better at illustrating action scenes then exposition or more pedestrian scenes is probably an issue with more dc comics then I have realized previously. So while I do think this detracts from the book overall this is not a unique issue and combined with the turnaround times some of these books has is likely a stupid thing to complain about.
On a totally random note, this book is the first hell centered comic that I have read since I really stopped believing in a literal hell. Obviously hell in comics and movies never really coincided with what I believed and was taught about hell, but now that I'm 100% a Christian who does not believe the Bible ever really mentions hell, since popular culture hell in North America is generally loosely based on bad Christian readings of the Bible, Hellrazer may now be ruined forever for me. I need to pick up this series again soon just to check.
To conclude, along with being a solid first as far as openly gay relationship representation in DC comics goes, because Midnighter looks like Batman to me so thinking about who gay batman might be was pretty fun as well.
Pretty standard and average for a superhero comic (which I certainly enjoy but is what it is) it did fall into the unfortunately large category of m/m books that I have a hard time getting into. One of the few things that really reminds me that I am pansexual is the fact that I've always had a harder time getting into m/m romances, I do try and still pick them up from time to time and they do sometimes strike my fancy, but yeah - that's my big subjective take on it.
Art-wise I am noticing that, besides being rushed, being much better at illustrating action scenes then exposition or more pedestrian scenes is probably an issue with more dc comics then I have realized previously. So while I do think this detracts from the book overall this is not a unique issue and combined with the turnaround times some of these books has is likely a stupid thing to complain about.
On a totally random note, this book is the first hell centered comic that I have read since I really stopped believing in a literal hell. Obviously hell in comics and movies never really coincided with what I believed and was taught about hell, but now that I'm 100% a Christian who does not believe the Bible ever really mentions hell, since popular culture hell in North America is generally loosely based on bad Christian readings of the Bible, Hellrazer may now be ruined forever for me. I need to pick up this series again soon just to check.
To conclude, along with being a solid first as far as openly gay relationship representation in DC comics goes, because Midnighter looks like Batman to me so thinking about who gay batman might be was pretty fun as well.