FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH DANCE #3 (OF 6)

Review by: flapjaxx

What did the
iFanboy
community think?

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Avg Rating: 3.2
 
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Size: pages
Price: 2.99

I saw that Conor’s info showed this was his pick at first, then he changed it to Spidey 600. (I find it a bit creepy that we as members of this website community take it upon ourselves to peek into that sort of information, but apparently we do. Is that wrong? Is that weird? I was bored Wednesday evening so I decided to peek into the three iFanboy’s respective pulls for this week, and at that time I saw that Conor had picked Dance #3 as the pick. Why do I feel guilty about having done this?)

Regardless, I
thought this was a boring issue. I enjoyed the first two issues
of Dance alright, but this one had many puns and pop culture riffs that were less than interesting to me. Every line of dialogue that was clearly supposed to make the reader giggle or bring out a slight sly smile–all those instances fell flat for me.

I did like the few lines of dialogue in which
Superbat said to the girl dressed up like
him: “You worship me, right? Think about why you dress just like me and
what that means” (paraphrasing). When I read that I thought, “Okay, we’re finally
going to get a little bit of pop culture insight”, as we did many times in the
first two issues. But we didn’t. Those lines of dialogue were the only ones that piqued my interest a bit and stuck with me to any extent.

The art was bad also. At times I had trouble distinguishing whether the characters on the page were
the “real” versions or whether they were the cosplay versions. To make matters worse, the pacing and panel-progression were
very disjointed as well, jerking the reader around way too much. And, yeah, it
goes without saying by now that the Twitter boxes are POINTLESS and
annoying and WAY too prevalent. If Superbat was actually writing this book, then by the third issue he’d chastise himself for being behind the times: because clearly using the Twitter-motif in comics is SO first-quarter ’09.

A six-issue mandate was probably too long for this story. This little story shouldn’t take this long to tell. Not
only is the gimmick fast wearing off, but the author doesn’t seem to have any
more little clever puns to sprinkle the story with. Hopefully this mini
will recover next issue, though. Hopefully #3 was just a lull, a pointless
issue that needed to be included in order to get the story from point B
to point C, however mechanically.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 1 - Poor

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