A review by annasirius
Red Thorn, Volume 2: Mad Gods and Scotsmen by Choong Yoon, Steve Oliff, Nancy Ogami, Todd Klein, Meghan Hetrick, David Baillie
3.0
There are many good ideas in this series, but they have not been well organised and merged into one coherent story. Too many pieces of information are droped surprisingly just when they are needed instead of building the world up first (or the two worlds, as it suddenly turns out in issue 12 of 13!).
A major dealbreaker for me was the choice of replacement artist when Meghan Hetrick was unavailable. Her replacement does not even try to emulate her unique style. His own style is ugly and appears 15 years behind time - at least when directly compared to the art of the rest of the series. I literally stopped reading when I saw the style switch again in issue 12 and realised issue 13 was largely not illustrated by Hetrick.
It's a shame. There's a lot of potential here!
A major dealbreaker for me was the choice of replacement artist when Meghan Hetrick was unavailable. Her replacement does not even try to emulate her unique style. His own style is ugly and appears 15 years behind time - at least when directly compared to the art of the rest of the series. I literally stopped reading when I saw the style switch again in issue 12 and realised issue 13 was largely not illustrated by Hetrick.
It's a shame. There's a lot of potential here!