ABSOLUTION #0 (OF 6)
Review by: philosophyteacher
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Junk.
Leafed through it in store until I saw the gratuitous violence against child. When Moore included something that disturbing in Watchmen it was embedded in a developed Rorschach narrative that made it seem not like cheap exploitation. This writer doesn’t have the chops to pull it off.
Pretty sure at this point on the evidence of this book and the Warren Ellis stuff that they publish that Avatar has no real editorial supervision.
The art has that slick-ugly look that mainstream comics seem to have developed these days.
Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 2 - Average
Art: 2 - Average
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Poor review. You didn’t actually read the story nor the back matter that explains where the writer is coming from. Had you done so, you would know that the purpose of the story is not "exploitation", but exploration of the phenomenon of burnout amongst those who fight crime. CSI: SVU thinks Cage is a good storyteller, particularly for this kind of story, and so do I.
Not the greatest thing I’ve ever read, but interesting enough to see where it goes.
If you didn’t read it, how can you review it? It’s never a good idea to write a review just to let out some steam, or in order to complain about other things via your review (like the "slick-ugly" look you seem to hate).
Fine to criticize the "review"–such as it is–but you might want to actually address my point. Considering it’s about 8 pages long I think reading this in the store was giving it about as much as it deserved. Some comics do in fact suck and this is one. That the guy seems to have written for TV is beside the point. Depicting violence against children is a very, very iffy thing in any medium, and when it’s thrown into a piece of junk like this it’s just offensive. Moore could handle it, this guy can’t and shouldn’t have tried. And yes, the art is ugly in that slick way that ugly comic art is ugly now. As far as the "back matter," well I don’t think I got to the back matter in the latest issue of Jughead, either.
The only point I need to address is that you only "leafed" through it until you reached the portion of the story which you found objectionable, which was on page 3. Any further discussion is moot. Not only is the initial review poor but now you’ve compounded it by comparing it to Jughead.
Fail.
I give up. Are you the writer’s cousin or something?
I agree with ultimatehoratio. Reviewing something you didn’t read is stupid. If its only 8 pages why couldn’t you be bothered to spend the 10 minutes to read it. You say that the violence in Watchmen is fine because it is part of a larger story line but so is this. The case against the child murder still plagues the main character and the trial is still ongoing. Clearly this is going to be part of the story. Maybe you need to actually give something a chance rather than judging it on a flip through. I’m so sick of people giving the flaws in Watchmen a pass just because it’s Watchmen. It’s not perfect, it’s just really good.
Way to review something you didn’t read. This comic was a great 0(note set up issue for the rest of the series) issue. Leafed through it? Give me a break. You’re reviewing something, not writing a paper on The Grapes of Wrath in the tenth grade.