ADAM LEGEND OF BLUE MARVEL #2 (OF 5)

Review by: rwpos

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This was terrible.  As I view the story, it appears to be little more than Kevin Grevioux’s commentary on how racists white America was circa 1965, and how much America is in denial about racism today.  The plot is strange and irrational, and the story is terribly written with characters who appear to exist solely to serve the author’s social/editorial message.  The writing itself is amateurish – in one scene the old guy in the wheel chair (can’t remember his name and don’t care to waste the time looking it up) continues Dum Dum Duggan’s dialogue from a prior scene (Duggan had said “it was a different time” and the old guy says to Stark – who appears to be the author’s stand-in – “I already told you, it was a different time!” despite the fact that only Duggan had said this).  And the art looks equally unfinished and “fluid” (I don’t mean this in any positive sense of the word), changing from scene to scene.  It takes a lot to get me to drop a limited series before the end, but Blue Marvel’s managed to do it for me!

Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 1 - Poor

Comments

  1. "it appears to be little more than Kevin Grevioux’s commentary on how racists white America was circa 1965, and how much America is in denial about racism today."

     America was racist in 1965 and still is

     

  2. I disagree that America is a racist nation – modern politics proves that to be untrue.  I do agree that racism is still present throughout American culture and that it expresses itself in many ways.  But that really wasn’t the point of review.  My point is that the story is a poorly written narrative and poses, in my opinion, as little more than opportunity for the author to present his views on racism in a way that is neither engaging nor entertaining.  If he wants to write a Marvel comic rather than a political or social editorial pamphlet then he should at least dress his point of view in an interesting and cohesive story.  That was my point.

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