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crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
3.0
I haven't been a massive fan of Valiant books with Master Darque as a villain. He's one of those He's The Ultimate Villain! characters that always manages to be beaten very easily. He also has a tragic back story that I remember reading in ... Shadowman? and which is repeated, in a condensed fashion, in this colume. He's still not super interesting here. But he seems more like a device to tell other stories than to serve as an actual threat. This is mostly the (I hope) conclusion of the Ninak pines for his dead girlfriend who is now a deadly, soulless assassin storyline. (See also Daredevil and Elektra.)
The volume starts out with a mostly wordless comic issue, which was fine, but didn't blow my mind. Then the Shadow Seven are reintroduced, and we get the brief Darque backstory before the story begins to truly progress.
It's a solid Valiant book. And even though I've only rated it a three, I do enjoy how it (please) wrapped up the previous volumes' storyarcs.
The volume starts out with a mostly wordless comic issue, which was fine, but didn't blow my mind. Then the Shadow Seven are reintroduced, and we get the brief Darque backstory before the story begins to truly progress.
It's a solid Valiant book. And even though I've only rated it a three, I do enjoy how it (please) wrapped up the previous volumes' storyarcs.
lukeisthename34's review against another edition
3.0
A little hit-and-miss with me. Great art. I love the characters. But to have so many story arcs being the undoing of stories (freeing the characters he spent a whole series capturing just to setup him looking for them again, having Roku do something, have it undone, have it fixed, have that fix undone again)...it just gets kinda boring to have things just repeated like this with no payoffs or just a reset back to zero each time. Feels a bit like mainstream stuff and not what Valiant is about.
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