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todd_bissell's review
3.0
I've loved everything I've come across by Alex Ross that's put out by this publisher, but this was not a slam dunk for me.
It's surely not the first time an avenging superhero has directly attacked the White House, but came off to me all a bit slap-dash. As others have aptly mentioned, Black Terror is a bull in a china shop, hellbent convinced that Mr Evil Eyepatch President has arrested his sidekick.
I like the art, and the "fish out of water" aspects of a WWII superhero not understanding modern-day America is done well. It's a consistent theme in Alex Ross' material, and is done far better than what many dozens of writers have tried to do with Captain America since Cap's return in the `60s.
But the crux of the story -- Black Terror's half-baked plan to take out the President to suddenly somehow revert America back to the kinder(?)/gentler(?) America he fought for in the `40s -- is weakened a bit by the finale.
This first in a series of TPB's. Maybe it'll fall together later on. But this is a bit of a rough start.
It's surely not the first time an avenging superhero has directly attacked the White House
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(and this doesn't end up anywhere nearly as bloody what you'll see in Warren Ellis' "Black Summer" book)I like the art, and the "fish out of water" aspects of a WWII superhero not understanding modern-day America is done well. It's a consistent theme in Alex Ross' material, and is done far better than what many dozens of writers have tried to do with Captain America since Cap's return in the `60s.
But the crux of the story -- Black Terror's half-baked plan to take out the President to suddenly somehow revert America back to the kinder(?)/gentler(?) America he fought for in the `40s -- is weakened a bit by the finale
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of all of his friends and his previously M.I.A. sidekick affecting a bloodless arrest of the President and his minions to save the dayThis first in a series of TPB's. Maybe it'll fall together later on. But this is a bit of a rough start.
the_graylien's review
2.0
The covers by Alex Ross? Amazing, as always. The rest? Not so much...
*-I read this book as digitally downloaded single issues of Black Terror #1-4.
*-I read this book as digitally downloaded single issues of Black Terror #1-4.
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