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A review by jekutree
Nemesis by Mark Millar
1.0
I can’t believe what I just read. I’m not the biggest Mark Millar fan, the only thing I’ve enjoyed by him is Superman Red Son and that’s pretty much it. Old Man Logan and Civil War are both pretty meh (McNiven KILLS the art in those books though) and this is worse than meh.
Millar’s writing and dialogue in this book are downright atrocious. The dialogue took me out of the story multiple times because of how awful it is. There’s a scene where Nemesis takes out guards in a prison and a prisoner in the background says “Fuck AND shit!” Literally who talks like that? I had to put the book down and laugh after reading that and a few other speech bubbles.
A lot of the action set pieces are cool if you turn your brain off. But there are some ridiculous things in this book that made audibly say WTF. The whole part where Nemesis gets the chief to share 3 family secrets might’ve been the pinnacle of everything that’s wrong with this book.
The violence in the book never really bothered me mainly because McNiven is a talented artist. He does a decent job on this book but I found it to be the weakest I’ve seen his art. However, I think that’s because of the coloring which isn’t very good. McNiven’s pencils don’t like well with the flatter colors used for this book.
To be fair, this book made me laugh a good chunk of times and it was fun to read despite there being a significant lack of quality.
I’d give this book a 2/10
EDIT: I forgot about the ending. Actually horrendous ending, it takes away everything that made the book Nemesis. There’s an evil rich guy that ISNT nemesis orchestrating the whole event? What the fuck?
Millar’s writing and dialogue in this book are downright atrocious. The dialogue took me out of the story multiple times because of how awful it is. There’s a scene where Nemesis takes out guards in a prison and a prisoner in the background says “Fuck AND shit!” Literally who talks like that? I had to put the book down and laugh after reading that and a few other speech bubbles.
A lot of the action set pieces are cool if you turn your brain off. But there are some ridiculous things in this book that made audibly say WTF. The whole part where Nemesis gets the chief to share 3 family secrets might’ve been the pinnacle of everything that’s wrong with this book.
The violence in the book never really bothered me mainly because McNiven is a talented artist. He does a decent job on this book but I found it to be the weakest I’ve seen his art. However, I think that’s because of the coloring which isn’t very good. McNiven’s pencils don’t like well with the flatter colors used for this book.
To be fair, this book made me laugh a good chunk of times and it was fun to read despite there being a significant lack of quality.
I’d give this book a 2/10
EDIT: I forgot about the ending. Actually horrendous ending, it takes away everything that made the book Nemesis. There’s an evil rich guy that ISNT nemesis orchestrating the whole event? What the fuck?