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This Week's Madness * WARNING * The following reviews are meant to be humorous and may be found to contain sarcasm, dubious associations, groundless opinions, and senseless rebukes for the sole purpose of entertainment (if not yours, then ours) all of which are substances known by the State of California to be harmful to your work-ethic, and may cause malignant tumors of laughter. Caution advised while reading.
BEFORE YOU BECOME MASSIVELY OFFENDED, BE WARNED THE FOLLOWING BIT IS EXTREMELY OPINIONATED!!! This Book Must Be Ignored!!
What a colossal disappointment. I guess I should never judge a book by its cover artist. Not only was this a whacked out crack-jobber, but it was also filled with the most stiff, and random comic art to hit the stands in some time. I am not trying to be rude here, but I think this tendancy to have a master artist do a cover so as to sell a book that is basically none too good, is a crime. I know Alex Ross probably costs a bundle per page, but when you see something like Superman:Strength, you still expect something more than "Blondie" funny pages-style artwork. The same thing has occured with Wolverine:Soultaker. You have a master artist, Katsuya Terada, do the cover only to be followed up by Nagasawa, who can only disappoint in the shadow of the cover artist. This is unfair to both the reader and the interior artist. If you take a book like "Spider-Man and The Human Torch" where the art is not that great, you will still see the art on the cover reveals to you the skills of the interior artist. There is no trick, just plain old honesty. I think the greatest injustice is that done to the interior artist, who, if given the chance to do the cover himself, would not disappoint the reader. Aside from these superficial complaints, i have to stress that the story is not that good, and is rather gimmicky and campy. But I would love to have that cover in a poster-size, orriginal, please?
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