A review by lookhome
The Black Monday Murders Volume 2 by Jonathan Hickman
3.0
The Black Monday Murders is a graphic novel brimming with ideas, filled with vast concepts and large, far flung conspiracies.
While the world the reader was introduced to in the first volume continues to grow and expand, so does the filler (5 consecutive pages of single line e-mails, really???)
There's a definite growing concern that this may be an overly stylized take on the ancient tale of Mammon. Greed is not a new topic of discussion.
Gordon Gecko and Patrick Bateman were both absorbed into our culture hive minds over 20 years ago, needless to say the many religions and folk tales (faust included) that decry Greed and the fate of those human beings that whose lives revolve around the accumulation of wealth.
There's still lots of potential here but it needs some tightening.
For some reason I do feel comparisons could be made to the beginning of Donna Tartt's Secret History. However, why that is escapes me at the moment ....
While the world the reader was introduced to in the first volume continues to grow and expand, so does the filler (5 consecutive pages of single line e-mails, really???)
There's a definite growing concern that this may be an overly stylized take on the ancient tale of Mammon. Greed is not a new topic of discussion.
Gordon Gecko and Patrick Bateman were both absorbed into our culture hive minds over 20 years ago, needless to say the many religions and folk tales (faust included) that decry Greed and the fate of those human beings that whose lives revolve around the accumulation of wealth.
There's still lots of potential here but it needs some tightening.
For some reason I do feel comparisons could be made to the beginning of Donna Tartt's Secret History. However, why that is escapes me at the moment ....