jammasterjamie's review
4.0
I wasn't fully digging this series for the first two volumes, but man am I glad that I stuck around. It really started to pick up for me in Volume 4, but this one is where it really starts to stand among the greats. Good stuff right here with some truly unexpected twists.
chayote's review
dark
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
olliewheaton's review
adventurous
dark
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
shirohige's review
4.0
Me tenía un poco confundido las velocidades con que la historia de Black Science se iba desarrollando, siendo que no considero que la lentitud sea un defecto cuando busca realzar la construcción de personajes, creo a Remender a ratos se le iba un poco la mano en la presentación/armazón de algunos. No obstante , posterior a la resolución tomada por Grant McKay tras el volumen anterior: limpiar todos los cagazos que ha ocasionado hasta ahora, el relato tomó un camino mucho más vertiginoso.
No obstante el precio a pagar no es menor. Desprenderse de lo que te hace distinto, de tu principal cualidad es un castigo cruel pero merecido. Y que sigue humanizando a un personaje que fue presentado altanero inicialmente y que con ciertos complejos de dios ha ido descendiendo lentamente hacia una redención (al menos su relación con Pia parece mejorar) que luce bastante dolorosa.
La rivalidad con Kadir también sigue en un tira y afloja que probablemente no culmine bien. La velocidad de la narración le ha dado un giro a la historia que la ha hecho despegar y hace lucir bastante promisorio el futuro de la misma.
Como si Los cuatro fantásticos estuviesen quebrados y Reed Richards hubiese perdido su inteligencia: el peor momento para los personajes, es tal vez, el mejor para la serie.
No obstante el precio a pagar no es menor. Desprenderse de lo que te hace distinto, de tu principal cualidad es un castigo cruel pero merecido. Y que sigue humanizando a un personaje que fue presentado altanero inicialmente y que con ciertos complejos de dios ha ido descendiendo lentamente hacia una redención (al menos su relación con Pia parece mejorar) que luce bastante dolorosa.
La rivalidad con Kadir también sigue en un tira y afloja que probablemente no culmine bien. La velocidad de la narración le ha dado un giro a la historia que la ha hecho despegar y hace lucir bastante promisorio el futuro de la misma.
Como si Los cuatro fantásticos estuviesen quebrados y Reed Richards hubiese perdido su inteligencia: el peor momento para los personajes, es tal vez, el mejor para la serie.
renee_pompeii's review
3.0
I guess I may be getting a little bored with the story, but the artwork and characters are still really fun and worth your attention.
jakekilroy's review
4.0
When you lose your entire team, including members of your family, after hopping through dimensions, coming home isn't always a good idea and it's definitely not easy. Grant McKay, having now gotten closer to figuring out how to right his very many wrongs, works closer back to the center of the onion that the universe has become, with holes everywhere and a collapse gaining likelihood. This isn't as powerful as the fourth volume, but I'm damn curious to see what's next.
grilledcheesesamurai's review
4.0
Well, this is more like it! I didn't enjoy the last volume as much and although I have still been picking up single issues of this series I stalled out on it. With issue 34 dropping today (Its supposed to be a gooder) I decided it was time to play catch up.
After Grant's 'discovery' of himself last volume he is now setting out to right his wrongs and try and get his family back.
Only...well...he kind of fucks it all up (like he usually does), destroys a peace treaty of warring tribes that have been at each other's throats for thousands of years, gets too drunk on alien wine, fondles some enormous blue alien breasts, and pisses off a witch.
He does, however, acquire a horse that he names Spaghetti. Which, you know, is pretty cool.
And the art. Holy balls the art! Even with Remender sometimes fumbling around a bit with the story, Matteo Scalera has been consistently amazing with this series. It's so exciting to turn the pages to see what he has drawn next, I dare say that (for me) Black Science is one of the best monthly pulls I have art wise. This series has definitely made a Scalera fanboy of me!
Anyways, The volume finishes off with some really interesting plot revelations that have me super excited to dig into the next arc. It finally looks like things are evolving story wise and getting a little bit more interesting than just 'we have to find our way back home.' Which, you know, I was already on board with but now I'm happy to see that things are getting a bit meatier.
After Grant's 'discovery' of himself last volume he is now setting out to right his wrongs and try and get his family back.
Only...well...he kind of fucks it all up (like he usually does), destroys a peace treaty of warring tribes that have been at each other's throats for thousands of years, gets too drunk on alien wine, fondles some enormous blue alien breasts, and pisses off a witch.
He does, however, acquire a horse that he names Spaghetti. Which, you know, is pretty cool.
And the art. Holy balls the art! Even with Remender sometimes fumbling around a bit with the story, Matteo Scalera has been consistently amazing with this series. It's so exciting to turn the pages to see what he has drawn next, I dare say that (for me) Black Science is one of the best monthly pulls I have art wise. This series has definitely made a Scalera fanboy of me!
Anyways, The volume finishes off with some really interesting plot revelations that have me super excited to dig into the next arc. It finally looks like things are evolving story wise and getting a little bit more interesting than just 'we have to find our way back home.' Which, you know, I was already on board with but now I'm happy to see that things are getting a bit meatier.
ryanem7's review
4.0
Jumping from a world with God like beings to returning home where the events of Grant and his teams first experiment have been changed and altered. Volume 5 takes black science into a very different story direction, which although still fun and enjoyable to read, felt somewhat abrupt and jarring from the previous four volumes story line.
Pia having become queen of a world inhabited by beings with God-like abilities, the lines between sci-fi and fantasy blurred greatly in these issues. Its a great testament to Grants change in mental state, seeing him not only want to bring his family back together, but to fix the mistakes of his past. I enjoyed seeing another threat to the Eververse being introduced, following the evil witch obtaining Grants genius and subsequent inter-dimensional knowledge. However compared to both the sapient gaseous life forms and the millipede death cult, the witch was quickly introduced and subsequently left, with no real conflict and only major affect being Grants now lack of genius. Which now makes him unable to build any other pillars, and felt more like a quick plot device rather than an earned storyline.
Ultimately though, with Grant and Pias return to their original universe, it’s revealed that Kadir survived Grants apparent murder attempt and not only that is married to Sara. The volume ends with the world now reaping the rewards of the pillar, but hints of the greater threat the device opens and the impending threat of the destruction of the Eververse. Coupled with the three major threats previously introduced, the next volume may be different in overall theme and storyline, but its likely to culminate in these real life threats coming to fruition and the dimenionauts repeating what they have sowed.
Pia having become queen of a world inhabited by beings with God-like abilities, the lines between sci-fi and fantasy blurred greatly in these issues. Its a great testament to Grants change in mental state, seeing him not only want to bring his family back together, but to fix the mistakes of his past. I enjoyed seeing another threat to the Eververse being introduced, following the evil witch obtaining Grants genius and subsequent inter-dimensional knowledge. However compared to both the sapient gaseous life forms and the millipede death cult, the witch was quickly introduced and subsequently left, with no real conflict and only major affect being Grants now lack of genius. Which now makes him unable to build any other pillars, and felt more like a quick plot device rather than an earned storyline.
Ultimately though, with Grant and Pias return to their original universe, it’s revealed that Kadir survived Grants apparent murder attempt and not only that is married to Sara. The volume ends with the world now reaping the rewards of the pillar, but hints of the greater threat the device opens and the impending threat of the destruction of the Eververse. Coupled with the three major threats previously introduced, the next volume may be different in overall theme and storyline, but its likely to culminate in these real life threats coming to fruition and the dimenionauts repeating what they have sowed.