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I've been picking up Elseworlds TPBs lately. This one was pretty good. The story is simple, actually. Some unknown (and never explained) event called the Black Light Event causes anyone with organic powers to lose them permanently. The non-powered and tech-based heroes and villains take over in the wake of this event, and many of the powered heroes become despondent.
The art is what attracted my eye. Not the cover--that's actually fairly mediocre. But the pencils are really well done. In particular, Dave Ross has little trouble with civilian clothing, which he draws a lot of for obvious reasons. And he ought to be called the ass master, because he's really good at rendering nice female booties. He does a better job than many with facial expressions, too. A place where many pencilers fail.
The story is decently written. The dialogue is pretty stiff, but I get a distinct "hey, look, we're the Silver Age!" feel from it. Worst of all is Joker's monologue about the joy of being evil. Really? I seriously doubt the Joker would call himself evil, eschewing both good and evil as labels. I give it a good 3.5 out of 5 stars (yep, I used a half star instead of a ten star scale, since someone brought it up as a bad thing. Why? Because the half star explicitly points out that it's not quite good enough to warrant a 4, but not bad enough to get a three. In the same way that saying 'somewhere between blue and green' puts the emphasis on the endpoints rather than the exact location between them.)
The art is what attracted my eye. Not the cover--that's actually fairly mediocre. But the pencils are really well done. In particular, Dave Ross has little trouble with civilian clothing, which he draws a lot of for obvious reasons. And he ought to be called the ass master, because he's really good at rendering nice female booties. He does a better job than many with facial expressions, too. A place where many pencilers fail.
The story is decently written. The dialogue is pretty stiff, but I get a distinct "hey, look, we're the Silver Age!" feel from it. Worst of all is Joker's monologue about the joy of being evil. Really? I seriously doubt the Joker would call himself evil, eschewing both good and evil as labels. I give it a good 3.5 out of 5 stars (yep, I used a half star instead of a ten star scale, since someone brought it up as a bad thing. Why? Because the half star explicitly points out that it's not quite good enough to warrant a 4, but not bad enough to get a three. In the same way that saying 'somewhere between blue and green' puts the emphasis on the endpoints rather than the exact location between them.)
