Anyway, the two issues had a comical vibe to it, probably due to deadpool, but I don't think humor mixes well with MK. At least, not this Deadpool kind of humor.
--Previous Message--
: I have mixed feelings.
:
: First of all the cover. Apart from the fact
: that it was almost a carbon copy of the
: cover for #7 but with MK holding a knife
: rather than a gun I thought the art was
: lacking.
:
: Speaking of art I really dont rate Huats
: work and dont think it fits the style weve
: come to expect from a MK book, it was far
: too cartoony and I cant imagine that either
: the cover or the internal art will attract
: many fans to the book.
:
: As for the storyline I thought there was an
: important message in there but it was
: explored in very basic and simplistic terms.
: Moonknight wrestles with his own conflicted
: feelings about killing, perhaps realising
: that characters like Deadpool who are
: willing to take life are a necessity and
: almost having a relapse into killing himself
: until someone else took the responsibility
: away from him. To a degree weve already seen
: this issue explored in the first arc of the
: series so perhaps it was unecessary to do it
: again so soon but in any case as they did
: decide to touch on it again I thought they
: could have done a better job of it.
:
: Finally - moonswords and wrist parachutes?
: Give me strength....
:
: --Previous Message--
: VotMK 8 marked the end of the Dead pool
: crossover. It is jarring to me that a two
: issues
: now constitutes a short story because with
: some
: editing, this could have been told just as
: effectively in 22 pages by cleaning up the
: fight
: scenes and getting rid of the useless
: panels. The
: story in this issue leads with a fight scene
: where MK literally trades blows with random
: thugs. It threw me off the story entirely
: because
: the entire missing child angle of the story
: is
: solved in a fight followed by a splash page
: then
: never addressed. The next two pages were
: really
: hard for me to follow because of the page
: layout.
: I can understand wanting a wide angle of the
: fun
: house, but when none of the frames contain
: any
: real action except the one that is logically
: last
: (the bottom right) it noticeably hurts the
: flow
: of the page. The carnival fight seemed
: pretty
: gratuitous, but your mileage may vary. The
: crescent parachutes seemed to be straight
: out of
: Adam West Batman to me, and the action was
: awkward as usual. I don't want to be too
: cynical,
: but Hurwitz's action scenes come off
: confusing.
: It is almost as if he understands it, and
: people
: who he talks to about it get it, but to a
: reader
: going into his action sequences cold it is a
: garbled mess where honestly, I have no idea
: how
: these fights would look played out in front
: of
: me. The MK katana was over the top. MK
: getting to
: release some steam was a good character idea
: i
: thought, but arming him with his most brutal
: weapon to date contradicted the kinder
: gentler
: MK. I can understand these critiques as just
: being spoiled by the amazing talent in the
: action
: comic genre, so MK becoming a mainly action
: book
: would naturally be big shoes to fill. The
: only
: part I would call explicitly bad writing was
: the
: very end. As someone who reads this book for
: the
: character, showing how much more tough you
: are as
: the writer than the character was insulting.
: You
: may say that the woman (unnamed in the
: issue)
: would have gone and killed him, but it is
: the
: author who made it happen and put it on the
: page.
: We really didn't need to know what happened
: to
: the old man at the end once MK and Deadpool
: weren't involved, but the author decided to
: tell
: us that he wanted him to get murdered in the
: end.
: When the whole message we've been getting
: the
: entire series is that MK is better because
: he
: doesn't kill, saying that you believe in
: vigilantes executing people should probably
: be
: saved for another creative venture.
:
: Thoughts?
:
:
:
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