author: Joe Keatinge
name: Wayne
average rating: 2.74
book published: 2014
rating: 2
read at: 2014/07/29
date added: 2014/07/29
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Glory: The Complete Saga' feels like it starts in the middle somewhere, so the term 'complete' seems like an error. Also, while I liked some of it, most of it felt like kind of a hot mess.
Gloriana Demeter is a character created by Rob Liefeld in the 1990s that has gotten a reboot here. She's got similarities to a certain Amazonian princess from another publisher, but we'll let that go for now. In the 90s, she was more like a typical overdrawn female superhero. Here she is kind of puffy and bloated looking. Other characters include a young girl named Riley who is drawn to Glory, and her fate seems inexorably tied in with her in depressing dreams of a depressing, impending future. I liked her. Glory's sister is a foul-mouthed alien who seems to throw an f-bomb in just about every word panel. Eventually, that just wore on me, and I didn't like her. There are a couple weird alien sidekicks that are kind of interesting.
It all leads up to a big cosmic battle, but not before some weirdly gory battles where arms are wrenched off and people are torn to bits, then stitched back together. You wonder how interesting a battle can be amongst participants who appear to have died, but haven't really. It turns out it's not that interesting at all. The art is uneven, and while some of the story aspects were interesting, it was so over the top and weird looking that I just didn't care. It turns out that this is complete enough for me after all.
I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.
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