A review by reginaexmachina
Dark Engine Volume 1: The Art of Destruction by Ryan Burton
1.0
The blur of this sounded really interesting:
"The world is cracked and in ruin. The air is full of dead men's ashes, fallen colossi smother the earth with their decayed husks, and infectious monsters roam freely. In their desperation, a group of alchemists have created a killer named Sym from obscene magic, outfitting her with an engine that will allow her to travel back in time to stop whatever it was that made their world so. But the alchemists don't realize that the engine is sentient, that their unstoppable killer is powered by the seed of their destruction. "
However I was barely able to get through it. I somehow thought the protagonist was Sym the female warrior but she is barely in the comic. When she is she's mostly silent and the action was confusing to follow. The plot itself was hard to follow. The art was really good but I had no idea what was going on 90% of the time. I'm tired of these comics where the ideas and the art are great but the execution is sloppy and not cohesive. Argh.
"The world is cracked and in ruin. The air is full of dead men's ashes, fallen colossi smother the earth with their decayed husks, and infectious monsters roam freely. In their desperation, a group of alchemists have created a killer named Sym from obscene magic, outfitting her with an engine that will allow her to travel back in time to stop whatever it was that made their world so. But the alchemists don't realize that the engine is sentient, that their unstoppable killer is powered by the seed of their destruction. "
However I was barely able to get through it. I somehow thought the protagonist was Sym the female warrior but she is barely in the comic. When she is she's mostly silent and the action was confusing to follow. The plot itself was hard to follow. The art was really good but I had no idea what was going on 90% of the time. I'm tired of these comics where the ideas and the art are great but the execution is sloppy and not cohesive. Argh.