Zoe Dare Vs the Disasteroid

author: Brockton McKinney
name: Wayne
average rating: 1.33
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2016/11/23
date added: 2016/11/23
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Zoe Dare vs The Disasteroid' by Brockton McKinney with art by Andrew Herman is a slick enough looking book with a likeable enough star. There were some goofy elements that I kind of had problems with though.

Zoe Dare is a stuntwoman like her father, Jack Dare. She works with her punk rocker, IT intelligent sister Danni. Her chief stunt rival is Race Thunderbuckler. When an asteroid threatens Earth, Zoe and Race are called forth to ride on the asteroid and do stuff to it to stop it from hitting the earth, like in those asteroid movies from the 90s. Zoe and Race are at each other's throats, so you know it's not going to go well. Then something else happens that makes things even more dangerous and ridiculous. And there are clever talking robots.

All of it had the over the top feeling of a Michael Bay movie. I don't really like Michael Bay movies. The art is okay, except everyone, especially the women, have unreal proportions. There is humor and it's on the moronic side. Occasionally the book has swear words that are marked out with 'censored' boxes, but it's not hard to figure out what they are supposed to be, but that's weird because occasionally the characters use soft swear words like "appleslaw." It's not a kid's comic, but the humor seems aimed there. I like the concept, and really wanted to like the characters, but there just wasn't enough here to hold my interest for a sequel.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Action Lab, 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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