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fantasy, because that comm is pretty cool and could use a little extra activity.
A comics package came, but not the right one. It had a Buffy issue in it that was frankly mediocre, plus four other issues with a gap from the package that never made it. Now I have to decide if I want to read Wonder Woman, Supergirl, The Unwritten and X-Factor out of order.
I could not recognize most of the characters. Other than the top four, I can't tell anyone apart. Who is the blond injured man who Buffy is talking to? Is this supposed to be Riley? This Riley? Is there a glamor on him? Did they reveal his presence before and I missed and forgot it? Who, other than Giles, did Twilight kidnap? After reading the whole thing and glancing through again I'm almost sure it's Andrew and Faith. Who was snarking at Buffy near the end? I think it might be Kennedy, but that's by process of elimination.
Point is, the art is weak. The faces of the characters are not different from each other, and it takes me too long to puzzle out who the supporting characters are. I can tell who Xander is because he has an eyepatch. There are so many great artists who have no difficulty making characters immediately distinguishable, even when they're all young, good-looking people and half of them have the same hair color. Jeanty's characters are all generically cute.
And I can't get invested in the plot. I don't know why. So, Twilight is something something and he wants to something something everybody hates slayers. Willow's magic is stronger/weaker/gone/evil/back/stronger. Dawn is maybe in love with Xander -- okay. She is a grown-up now and they are "dating", except they're doing it in the middle of a battlefield so of course there's no actual date. Buffy is maybe in love with Xander, or maybe she's just lonely. This is very Buffy, but also very boring. I want to care that Buffy is lonely, but with every passing issue I cared less and less.
I want issue #8 of The Unwritten. I like it much better, and I don't want to read it out of order.
fantasy, because that comm is pretty cool and could use a little extra activity. A comics package came, but not the right one. It had a Buffy issue in it that was frankly mediocre, plus four other issues with a gap from the package that never made it. Now I have to decide if I want to read Wonder Woman, Supergirl, The Unwritten and X-Factor out of order.
I could not recognize most of the characters. Other than the top four, I can't tell anyone apart. Who is the blond injured man who Buffy is talking to? Is this supposed to be Riley? This Riley? Is there a glamor on him? Did they reveal his presence before and I missed and forgot it? Who, other than Giles, did Twilight kidnap? After reading the whole thing and glancing through again I'm almost sure it's Andrew and Faith. Who was snarking at Buffy near the end? I think it might be Kennedy, but that's by process of elimination.
Point is, the art is weak. The faces of the characters are not different from each other, and it takes me too long to puzzle out who the supporting characters are. I can tell who Xander is because he has an eyepatch. There are so many great artists who have no difficulty making characters immediately distinguishable, even when they're all young, good-looking people and half of them have the same hair color. Jeanty's characters are all generically cute.
And I can't get invested in the plot. I don't know why. So, Twilight is something something and he wants to something something everybody hates slayers. Willow's magic is stronger/weaker/gone/evil/back/stronger. Dawn is maybe in love with Xander -- okay. She is a grown-up now and they are "dating", except they're doing it in the middle of a battlefield so of course there's no actual date. Buffy is maybe in love with Xander, or maybe she's just lonely. This is very Buffy, but also very boring. I want to care that Buffy is lonely, but with every passing issue I cared less and less.
I want issue #8 of The Unwritten. I like it much better, and I don't want to read it out of order.