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A review by trike
Giants by Carlos Perez Valderrama
2.0
A pretty basic Cain-and-Abel story set in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by giant monsters. These kaiju and their parasites are lifted directly from Cloverfield, which is fairly uninspired. I don’t know if the odd dialogue is due to it being run through Google Translate or if the writer doesn’t speak English very well, but the idioms are mangled and the attempts at clever koans make no sense.
Examples of the former include lines such as “They’ll leave you a mark” (as in, “You’ll be marked”) and “You should’ve watched yer face!” (“You should’ve seen your face”), while an example of the latter is, “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you’ll miss them.” Um, okay. Except we pretty much know when sunrise happens, and they’re kinda regular, so if you missed today’s you can always see tomorrow’s. Real Yoda-level nonsense there.
The art is mostly okay, but it’s uneven during the action scenes, rendering the story unclear. I don’t know why that’s so hard for some artists to communicate, but it really makes one appreciate when it’s done well.
Examples of the former include lines such as “They’ll leave you a mark” (as in, “You’ll be marked”) and “You should’ve watched yer face!” (“You should’ve seen your face”), while an example of the latter is, “Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you’ll miss them.” Um, okay. Except we pretty much know when sunrise happens, and they’re kinda regular, so if you missed today’s you can always see tomorrow’s. Real Yoda-level nonsense there.
The art is mostly okay, but it’s uneven during the action scenes, rendering the story unclear. I don’t know why that’s so hard for some artists to communicate, but it really makes one appreciate when it’s done well.