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theartolater's review
3.0
I give the story a 2 here, the artwork a 5, as Alex Ross is simply better than anyone else at what he does.
I can't curse the story completely - while I want to dislike it solely because it uses a classic comics character (and American icon) to run off a laundry list of ideological left wing complaints about society, that's not fair. There may be some basis for it in the classic stories or even the 1970s reintroduction that I'm completely unfamiliar with. The issue is that the story is very quick, with a generally unsatisfying ending. I don't really know. I expected something else, I guess.
I can't curse the story completely - while I want to dislike it solely because it uses a classic comics character (and American icon) to run off a laundry list of ideological left wing complaints about society, that's not fair. There may be some basis for it in the classic stories or even the 1970s reintroduction that I'm completely unfamiliar with. The issue is that the story is very quick, with a generally unsatisfying ending. I don't really know. I expected something else, I guess.
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