A review by jnikolova
Lady Mechanika Vol. 2: The Tablet of Destinies by Joe Benítez, Martin Montiel, Mike Garcia, Michael Heisler, M.M. Chen
3.0
Also available on the WondrousBooks blog.
Not as good as the first one.
My general problem with Lady Mechanika, after two volumes, is that it doesn't follow through. In the first volume she was decided on finding her maker. In this volume that story is completely forgotten and something completely different is happening on a different continent.
Not to mention that this is Lady Mechanika and the tablet of destinies, except that Lady Mechanika is not even in the story line with the tablet. So to call it like this would be something like "Aragorn and the One Ring". I mean... uh... they are in the same world?
I firmly believe that this could have been much better, had the story been more condensed and had there been fewer sub-plots.
Much like the first volume, there is a recipe in which there is a male mastermind who has a bunch of generic soldiers and a female assistant, while Lady Mechanika on the other team finds unlikely friends and a mysterious guy who helps her from afar. Maybe if they hadn't followed this already used story, it could have been much better.
I continued liking the art, however. It was very intricate and detailed, and also pleasant to look at. The more female characters come in, the more obvious it is that they are all the same when you remove the colors. But I will choose to disregard that and enjoy the general feel of the book which was pretty good.
Not as good as the first one.
My general problem with Lady Mechanika, after two volumes, is that it doesn't follow through. In the first volume she was decided on finding her maker. In this volume that story is completely forgotten and something completely different is happening on a different continent.
Not to mention that this is Lady Mechanika and the tablet of destinies, except that Lady Mechanika is not even in the story line with the tablet. So to call it like this would be something like "Aragorn and the One Ring". I mean... uh... they are in the same world?
I firmly believe that this could have been much better, had the story been more condensed and had there been fewer sub-plots.
Much like the first volume, there is a recipe in which there is a male mastermind who has a bunch of generic soldiers and a female assistant, while Lady Mechanika on the other team finds unlikely friends and a mysterious guy who helps her from afar. Maybe if they hadn't followed this already used story, it could have been much better.
I continued liking the art, however. It was very intricate and detailed, and also pleasant to look at. The more female characters come in, the more obvious it is that they are all the same when you remove the colors. But I will choose to disregard that and enjoy the general feel of the book which was pretty good.