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A review by mschlat
Colonel Weird: Cosmagog by Jeff Lemire
2.0
Glorious Tyler Crook artwork for a confusing Jeff Lemire story that had me going "Wait, that's it?" at the end.
In Lemire's Black Hammer universe (a pastiche of the classic DC universe), Colonel Weird is a stand in for space characters like Adam Strange. In all the stories to date, he's been portrayed as powerful, but also seriously confused, as his cognition appears to be permanently altered by the dimension hopping and time travelling he's done. This collected miniseries shows his history (along with a number of intriguing glimpses of Black Hammer continuity), but does so in a time jumping fashion that represents the character, but makes for a frustrating reading experience. And the ending seems so light and insubstantial that I wasn't sure what the point of the series of when I was done.
In Lemire's Black Hammer universe (a pastiche of the classic DC universe), Colonel Weird is a stand in for space characters like Adam Strange. In all the stories to date, he's been portrayed as powerful, but also seriously confused, as his cognition appears to be permanently altered by the dimension hopping and time travelling he's done. This collected miniseries shows his history (along with a number of intriguing glimpses of Black Hammer continuity), but does so in a time jumping fashion that represents the character, but makes for a frustrating reading experience. And the ending seems so light and insubstantial that I wasn't sure what the point of the series of when I was done.