Art-
The cover for ‘Revenge’ is beautiful. It really is very well
done. The grey of the figure with blood sprayed around him and his red tinted
goggles look superb. You know what they say about not judging a book by its
cover though. Where ‘I, Vampire’ Volume 1 had a terrible cover but a stunning interior,
‘Revenge’ #1 manages to do the exact opposite, by having some of the worst
examples of comic book ‘art’ I have ever seen, hidden within its pages. The grotesquely
boring violence and unnecessary sex in the book is drawn with about as much
artistic flair as a broken nose, and the ‘humans’ within the book look as if
they’ve been savaged by a black marker and bathed in a sea of Olive oil. It is
quite truly awful, and not much else can be said about the interior as a
result.
Story-
The story follows Griffin Franks, an actor whose glory days are
far behind him, as he portrays the on screen vigilante ‘The Revenger’. This is
about as far as I can go with the story of this book. The rest of this piece is
completely debased by the gratuitously overused violence and sex that stalk the
book’s pages, melded with a particularly bland, boring and also somewhat
indecisive set of character dialogues that add very little to the overall
experience of the book, out with their ability to distract you from the artistic
genocide occurring elsewhere on the page. For the sake of objectivity I must
say that Ross does a very minimal job of making ‘The Revenger’ seem ever so
slightly believable, but even then this is crushed by the book’s obsessive need
to remind the reader that revenge is the overriding theme and drive of the book’s
story.
Readability-
In terms of readability, some may find the book quite
difficult to actually go through as a result of the abundance of, quite
frankly, disturbing imagery that is contained within its pages. This is also
not assisted by the books generic dialogue that remains highly uninteresting
and tasking to read through.
Verdict-
‘Revenge’ #1 is a horrendous excuse for a comic book that
was better suited as a tree than it is as paper. Please, do not buy this, as Image
need to be alerted to this book’s lack of quality immediately.
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