A review by jesnevertheless
Cyborg 009 by Shotaro Inoshimori, F. J. Desanto
2.0
Recently I have been trying to make an active effort to read more comic books because I feel like I'm missing out so much on a genre that everyone else seems to love so much. But because I am unfamiliar with them please excuse what's bound to be a pretty ramble filled review.
Cyborg 009 follows our main character Joe who, along with 8 other people, has been kidnapped and modified into a cyborg by someone called the Black Ghost in an effort to sell them to start a World War. I found the plot interesting, but not necessarily innovative. I understand that this is a reboot of the manga originally written by Shotaro Ishinomori which was wildly popular but I think I would have enjoyed this so much more in its original form.
Other than an interesting plot that's about where my enjoyment of this story tapered off. I found the characters pretty bland. I liked their back stories but other than one or two pages nothing else was ever built upon. Most of this comic is dialog which isn't always bad but for me this book was so cliche. For example:
"I know it's temping to go back. We've all thought about it, but Jet is right. We need to stick together". Does that sound cliche to anyone else? No? How about this:
"Well what now? The Black Ghost is still out there...but so are we!".
I rolled my eyes a few times at this book. And although it has amazingly beautiful color art, the story within was pretty boring and cliche and I wouldn't recommend it.
Cyborg 009 follows our main character Joe who, along with 8 other people, has been kidnapped and modified into a cyborg by someone called the Black Ghost in an effort to sell them to start a World War. I found the plot interesting, but not necessarily innovative. I understand that this is a reboot of the manga originally written by Shotaro Ishinomori which was wildly popular but I think I would have enjoyed this so much more in its original form.
Other than an interesting plot that's about where my enjoyment of this story tapered off. I found the characters pretty bland. I liked their back stories but other than one or two pages nothing else was ever built upon. Most of this comic is dialog which isn't always bad but for me this book was so cliche. For example:
"I know it's temping to go back. We've all thought about it, but Jet is right. We need to stick together". Does that sound cliche to anyone else? No? How about this:
"Well what now? The Black Ghost is still out there...but so are we!".
I rolled my eyes a few times at this book. And although it has amazingly beautiful color art, the story within was pretty boring and cliche and I wouldn't recommend it.