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Pics.
TBH as a cheap thing you got in a dollar bin at a flea market it's honestly not a bad find. If I found it at a flea market myself for a few bucks I'd probably buy it.
Would you look at that, there's a bunch of 'em uploaded on readcomicsonline dot com! At least I don't have to bother scanning the sonivabitch!
Here's the cover of this disasterpiece:
The artwork is not that bad in a sort of '90s kind of way. As someone who's a fan of the sort of exaggerated, cartoonish realism with minute details á la Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo or Angel Medina, as well as Olyoptics style digital coloring, I can dig it:
That's not to say the art is all peachy keen. As you can see, the symbolism... well, maybe that's a strong word. ehm, the imagery is pretty heavy handed, and the art is more busy with being flashy and in-four-face edgy than with narrative coherence. The pages are pretty at glance if you're into the style, but you might need a few more look to get exactly what's going on.
The ugliest page of issue one is definately this one:
The story's really not much to write home about. The plot follows the formula of "white trash does bad things to innoncents, ICP shows up to punish de in brutal, superpowered ways. There's also some rival clown clan trying to publish their own Ep before the ICP or some shit. There's no tension, no drama, and very little signs of personality aside from the ICP being cool, edgy and zany as well as the bad guys being assholes. Thankfully the dialogue often hits the hilariously bad mark:
Overall it wasn't too bad, but it's also far from good. It's worh a few chuckles and the art's decent for the most part, but in the end it's just plain too generic and forgetable. Still, if this is your cup of tea, then by all means, keep eyeballing it, you scary bitch!
I'll throw out some general types I've seen:
It's simple really and I'll pull out the screenshots of them saying it themselves if you want them. Comics are a dying medium and Marvel gets the most bang for their buck by pissing off the fanboys to turn them into advertisements when they complain about it everywhere. More people will buy bad comics either out of spite or to see the trainwreck themselves on top of the fanboys who will always buy Marvel to get their X-Men or Spider-Man fix. Very few of them actually drink the kool-aid and are just milking controversies to get under people's skins for profit. This is also why we've had stuff like Norman Osborn knocking up Gwen Stacy in the 2000s back when this attitude first took hold.
Woooow. The coloring makes Nanbaka seem pleasant to look at by comparison . Also, Hitler just randomly popping up so Brownhilda can virtue signal suckerpunch her is literally Sonichu levels of stupid. What a lazy way to use time travel in a story. While they're at it, why doesn't Marvel just replace all the panels in its comics with pictures of Richar Spencer getting punched?
It's official: the general writing in Marvel has sunken below fan fiction quality. It's a miracle that the "house of ideas" is still able to occasionally publish decent comics like Old Man Logan or Venom: Space Knight. I'm positive most Kiwis here could write better dialogues when they were 12.
Not to mention there's no real shading, either.