JOHNNY MONSTER #2 (OF 3)

Review by: TheDudeVonDoom

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Price: 3.50

Johnny Monster is that kind of good old-fashioned comic book that
reminds you why you started reading them. A teenage boy who has an
affinity for monsters and metal music – it’s like they’ve written this
series for me! – that must deal with the world’s  hatred towards
monsters. The rub in all this is that the monsters have confirmed to be
the bringers of death and destruction to the human race on numerous
occasions. Although the reader is obviously leaned to be sympathetic
towards Johnny and his adopted family/race, there is a bit of moral
ambiguity in this otherwise silly and animated book.

On that note, let’s discuss the art: Image books seem to be real
hit-and-misses when it comes to art, but Johnny Monster is definitely
somewhere in the middle. It has the expressiveness and animated feel of
Invinicble, but is occasionally hindered by toverly simple penciling –
the kind that plagues the likes of Savage Dragon, and others, I’m sure.
Still, the art is competent at best, and functional at worst. At least
Firebreather – long story short: half-Invincible, half-Hellboy –
manages to look better than he ever has in his own book.

That reminds me of the other guest appearance in this book: Cecil,
Image’s cross between Nick Fury & Jonah Hex. Williamson and Image
are really pushing the fact that these characters are all stuck in
their earth together, which can only mean that despite this book only
having one more issue for this run, it’s likely that we’ll be seeing
them every so often.

Call me a sucker for cheesy monsters and stories of compassion – and
references to 80’s thrash metal – but I find Johnny Monster to be a
solid series that any fan of dinosaurs and monsters and FUN would
enjoy. I’m looking forward to Johnny – and Firebreather, while we’re at
it – having a prominent place in the Imageverse.

Story: 3 - Good
Art: 3 - Good

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