Strong Female Protagonist Book One

author: Brennan Lee Mulligan

name: Wayne

average rating: 4.14

book published: 2014

rating: 4

read at: 2014/12/01

date added: 2014/12/01

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'Strong Female Protagonist Book One' started out kind of irritating the heck out of me, but I kept reading and it kind of grew on me. That's not much of a glowing endorsement, but it is what it is.



Alison Green is an ex-superhero. She still has all the powers and is recognized wherever she goes, but it's just not what she does anymore. She has friends that were superheroes with her, including one named Feral who can regenerate and heal, and another who can shrink down to microscopic size. She used to want to change the world, and realized that the way she was doing it wasn't working.



She has run ins with old villains and tries to help them cope with the strangeness that they are. Unlike many other superheroes, she has family, so that plays into things as well.



It's all part of an online webcomic and it's done in black and white art, but that didn't really bother me. What did bother me was the constant author comments at the bottom of the page. They reminded me of that annoying guy at the movie who always has to make a comment about everything. All they did was keep pulling me out of the story. I wanted to stay in the story. Hopefully those go away in volume 2.



Also, the story starts with Alison already retired, and I kind of felt like I was missing something. Like any sense of joy at having immense power. The thrill of flight, or punching something really hard. Instead, we are left with the aftermath, which is probably the point, but it still felt lacking to me.



I do like some of the emotional punches it packs, and while it took me quite a while to get into it, it finally hooked me. The art is about as good as you'll get from a webcomic and so's the story, but that's not a bad thing. This book was the result of a Kickstarter campaign, so it does have it's fans.



I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, Top Shelf Productions and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.





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