LukeHalsall
Friday, April 24, 2009, 09:05 PM
Reviewing Disconnected: Tales of the Sovereign Issue 2
My first impressions of this book are nothing but glittering. I never like reading straight off the screen so printed the book off in its glorious colour and flicked through the first few pages. I was amazed by the beauty that this book had. It literally shines off the page or the screen whichever way you are viewing it. The artwork is awesome and the colours are vibrant to the extent that they look as if the characters are jumping off onto the page into a real life drama. In my opinion this is how comics should always be presented with the dialogue and art working together, bringing the characters and the scenes to life.
When I began to read the comic, I felt the first panel was brilliantly done. The scene shows our hero, Sovereign being assaulted by a supper-villain. Sovereign’s character is great as he sounds just like an ordinary guy. Either me or you, or anyone in the world could and would have thought the things that Sovereign thinks all the way through this book. To me, the character’s banter is like that of ‘The Amazing Spider-man’ from the Stan Lee era and from me being a huge Spidey fan from his Stan days is a huge compliment!
I especially enjoyed the scene where Sovereign is waking up from his attack. Again the character being made out to be the ‘public’s scapegoat’ made me chuckle and therefore illustrating the character’s banter that he has with the audience reading the book.
Nobleman’s entrance into the book was again a piece of genius. It would seem in the first panel that he appears in, he is honestly worried about Sovereign. Then in the next panel, Nobleman explodes into him about being finished as a superhero.
The story itself works very well; enjoyable and wets the appetite for the next issue. The story is very realistic and again Sovereign is treated the way in which it would be assumed that anyone of us would be if we lived in a world full of supers. However, the best scene in the book is definitely when Sovereign is in the bar with the man in drag who brilliantly has a look of Amy Winehouse (this may have been by mistake but I think it works really well). The newspaper panel with the story ‘Park City Pooped’ again made me laugh.
The final few scenes where Sovereign puts his costume back on again feels just like how any of us would feel if we were an aging super deciding to don the underpants over the trousers for one more swan song. The last panel where our faithful hero goes head first into battle is a great end to a highly enjoyable book, intriguing me to find out what happens next.
All in all, I have nothing bad to say about this book and I am looking forward to the next issue.
My first impressions of this book are nothing but glittering. I never like reading straight off the screen so printed the book off in its glorious colour and flicked through the first few pages. I was amazed by the beauty that this book had. It literally shines off the page or the screen whichever way you are viewing it. The artwork is awesome and the colours are vibrant to the extent that they look as if the characters are jumping off onto the page into a real life drama. In my opinion this is how comics should always be presented with the dialogue and art working together, bringing the characters and the scenes to life.
When I began to read the comic, I felt the first panel was brilliantly done. The scene shows our hero, Sovereign being assaulted by a supper-villain. Sovereign’s character is great as he sounds just like an ordinary guy. Either me or you, or anyone in the world could and would have thought the things that Sovereign thinks all the way through this book. To me, the character’s banter is like that of ‘The Amazing Spider-man’ from the Stan Lee era and from me being a huge Spidey fan from his Stan days is a huge compliment!
I especially enjoyed the scene where Sovereign is waking up from his attack. Again the character being made out to be the ‘public’s scapegoat’ made me chuckle and therefore illustrating the character’s banter that he has with the audience reading the book.
Nobleman’s entrance into the book was again a piece of genius. It would seem in the first panel that he appears in, he is honestly worried about Sovereign. Then in the next panel, Nobleman explodes into him about being finished as a superhero.
The story itself works very well; enjoyable and wets the appetite for the next issue. The story is very realistic and again Sovereign is treated the way in which it would be assumed that anyone of us would be if we lived in a world full of supers. However, the best scene in the book is definitely when Sovereign is in the bar with the man in drag who brilliantly has a look of Amy Winehouse (this may have been by mistake but I think it works really well). The newspaper panel with the story ‘Park City Pooped’ again made me laugh.
The final few scenes where Sovereign puts his costume back on again feels just like how any of us would feel if we were an aging super deciding to don the underpants over the trousers for one more swan song. The last panel where our faithful hero goes head first into battle is a great end to a highly enjoyable book, intriguing me to find out what happens next.
All in all, I have nothing bad to say about this book and I am looking forward to the next issue.