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A review by crookedtreehouse
Book of Death by Robert Venditti
2.0
I've found most of Valiant's one-off books to be disappointments. They're often heavily continuity based, but feature a different combination of characters. This book was basically just a volume of [b:Unity, Volume 1: To Kill a King|20313289|Unity, Volume 1 To Kill a King|Matt Kindt|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1392028211l/20313289._SY75_.jpg|28147960] with a different title slapped on to it.
While not awful, the pacing of the book is odd as the first half focuses on The Eternal Warrior fighting with his teammates in order to protect The Geomancer From The Future, and the second half is about battling with The Current Geomancer and the person pulling the strings.
I had a hard time believing the Unity team would fall apart so easily, so I didn't really buy their battle. And once they revealed The Big Bad, my eyes rolled back in my head. Master Darque is one of the worst villains in comic books. He's supposedly this massively powerful creature from Valiant's Hellscape who Can Not Be Beaten, but every time he shows up in a book, a sparrow farts a hundred miles away and The most Powerful Villain In The World just collapses, defeated. It's always anticlimactic. This book was no exception .
While I didn'thate it, I can't really recommend it.
While not awful, the pacing of the book is odd as the first half focuses on The Eternal Warrior fighting with his teammates in order to protect The Geomancer From The Future, and the second half is about battling with The Current Geomancer and the person pulling the strings.
I had a hard time believing the Unity team would fall apart so easily, so I didn't really buy their battle. And once they revealed The Big Bad, my eyes rolled back in my head. Master Darque is one of the worst villains in comic books. He's supposedly this massively powerful creature from Valiant's Hellscape who Can Not Be Beaten, but every time he shows up in a book, a sparrow farts a hundred miles away and The most Powerful Villain In The World just collapses, defeated. It's always anticlimactic. This book was no exception .
While I didn'thate it, I can't really recommend it.