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What the FUCK was THAT?!?!
I just read GLC #18, and it was beyond terrible. Garbage. I honestly can't believe Tomasi wrote it. First off, the art was REALLY bad. The layouts were sloppy, the anatomy poor, and the faces barely looked like people. The weird facial expressions Crisscross gave John and every other black person were almost creepy. I keep thinking of that painting from the intro to the 70s tv show Good Times. I kept expecting Aunt Jemima to jump out at me when I turned the page. Sadly, the great Gary Frank cover is very misleading.
I don't like shitting on Tomasi because I generally like his stories in GLC. His first run is among my favorites in the GL books of the last 20 years. But this ENTIRE issue was a big epic fail.
John Stewart's new origin is that he was the son of a slain politician? And she died in front of him? Why? Even if you wanted to commit to that horseshit (and I see no reason why anyone would), wouldn't you want to do it in an actual story devoted to it and not as a snippet in a larger story?
Also, the incredible lameness of the first lantern as a villain is really front and center here. This guy is just a huge goddamn mort. When he was still a mystery at least it was up to our imaginations what he was all about. When I didn't know anything about him he was a lot more interesting in my head. Now that I've seen his MO and him doing his villainy in an actual story, he just comes off as the drizzling shits. And we've got 2 and a half more months of this piece of shit? Remember how lame Blackest Night got when we got about 70 issues of zombies emotionally torturing various characters in the DCU, over and over and OVER again? This is the SAME fucking thing!
1 star, and this issue only got THAT out of me for Gary Frank's cover. They should be ashamed.
I just read GLC #18, and it was beyond terrible. Garbage. I honestly can't believe Tomasi wrote it. First off, the art was REALLY bad. The layouts were sloppy, the anatomy poor, and the faces barely looked like people. The weird facial expressions Crisscross gave John and every other black person were almost creepy. I keep thinking of that painting from the intro to the 70s tv show Good Times. I kept expecting Aunt Jemima to jump out at me when I turned the page. Sadly, the great Gary Frank cover is very misleading.
I don't like shitting on Tomasi because I generally like his stories in GLC. His first run is among my favorites in the GL books of the last 20 years. But this ENTIRE issue was a big epic fail.
John Stewart's new origin is that he was the son of a slain politician? And she died in front of him? Why? Even if you wanted to commit to that horseshit (and I see no reason why anyone would), wouldn't you want to do it in an actual story devoted to it and not as a snippet in a larger story?
Also, the incredible lameness of the first lantern as a villain is really front and center here. This guy is just a huge goddamn mort. When he was still a mystery at least it was up to our imaginations what he was all about. When I didn't know anything about him he was a lot more interesting in my head. Now that I've seen his MO and him doing his villainy in an actual story, he just comes off as the drizzling shits. And we've got 2 and a half more months of this piece of shit? Remember how lame Blackest Night got when we got about 70 issues of zombies emotionally torturing various characters in the DCU, over and over and OVER again? This is the SAME fucking thing!
1 star, and this issue only got THAT out of me for Gary Frank's cover. They should be ashamed.
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