xlbelle's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
sad
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
5.0
totobatista's review against another edition
4.0
3,5 estrellas: Este volumen cuenta el origen de El Vigía, el equivalente de Superman de Marvel, solo que lo que hace entretenido a este héroe es que está loco. Los dibujos me encantaron y la trama está bastante bien; era necesario dedicar todo el volumen a explicar de dónde salió este héroe que no es de los más conocidos de Marvel.
¡A ver qué pasará en el próximo!
¡A ver qué pasará en el próximo!
coffeeandink's review
3.0
A massive improvement in the art, thanks to switching to Steve McNiven. I wish the faces had more variation, but at least it's no longer painful to look at them.
Plot's about a superhero whose existence seems to have been erased from the world; probably more interesting if you like metafiction and/or comics history.
Plot's about a superhero whose existence seems to have been erased from the world; probably more interesting if you like metafiction and/or comics history.
invertible_hulk's review
2.0
Nowhere near as good as the arc contained in the first volume; but I think part of that might have to do with my having read the Sentry TPB right before I read this one. So, I was possibly on Sentry overload going into this one.
inlibrisveritas's review
3.0
So I’m going through a lot of comic books lately and surprisingly there are very few typical superhero story-lines mixed in there. I’m sort of blaming it on this series right now, because even though I’ve only read 10 issues of it and it has a ton more I feel like it’s boring. Superheros and supervillians should never be pair with boring, it just don’t make sense. The first volume was decent enough for a start and it had a lot of promise to be big, to sort of live up to big things like Disassembled and then House of M, but this volume lacked any of the initial spark.
We’re fully introduced to Sentry, who was only briefly spotlighted before as a shivering half naked guy who said he killed his wife. We meet him again and he’s pretty much the same, though eventually he does put on more clothing. I feel like they were trying to give Sentry a good introduction into the Avengers, but instead it turned into a mess that I could barely follow. We find out his background or lack there of, and eventually we find out why…and then I threw my hands in the air because at the end of I failed to see the point of wasting 4 issues on something so trivial. He does some stuff, it’s kind of cool and makes a mess…and then we find out why and it’s convoluted mess of lame.
So while the art remains pretty nice and Spiderman still makes me laugh, this one failed to deliver truly worth my time. I am interested to how the Sentry story-line plays out or if it just gets lost, and the next section of issues promises some more answers in terms of Spider-woman so I’m curious enough to continue.
We’re fully introduced to Sentry, who was only briefly spotlighted before as a shivering half naked guy who said he killed his wife. We meet him again and he’s pretty much the same, though eventually he does put on more clothing. I feel like they were trying to give Sentry a good introduction into the Avengers, but instead it turned into a mess that I could barely follow. We find out his background or lack there of, and eventually we find out why…and then I threw my hands in the air because at the end of I failed to see the point of wasting 4 issues on something so trivial. He does some stuff, it’s kind of cool and makes a mess…and then we find out why and it’s convoluted mess of lame.
So while the art remains pretty nice and Spiderman still makes me laugh, this one failed to deliver truly worth my time. I am interested to how the Sentry story-line plays out or if it just gets lost, and the next section of issues promises some more answers in terms of Spider-woman so I’m curious enough to continue.
katytron's review
3.0
I have no idea what the hell just happened, but if I ever have a mental breakdown, I want Emma Frost to come talk me through it.
davramlocke's review
2.0
Not a bad way to introduce an outdated character, but the Sentry as a character sucks. He's like Superman without all the history and good old American charm. I don't like him in the MCU, frankly. We already have a Thor.
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