Reviews

Doctor Mid-Nite by John K. Snyder III, Matt Wagner

knokelmaat's review

adventurous challenging hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

This is an interesting but somewhat confusing story. The comic has some incredible drawings, but sometimes it's so stylized that it's hard to see what's happening. The enemies are all interesting and amusingly exaggerated. The titular character is a bit overly perfect and therefore quite boring in my opinion. Still, this is a nice standalone superhero story that has a unique style and premise that sets it apart.

thrakaboom's review

4.0

Beautiful art

thecommonswings's review

3.0

Kudos for making a character like this so strange and unsettling through the art, but it does make the book hard to read at times. Probably not the best book to read when feeling under the weather because the art is very much quite the thing

lyrafay12's review

3.0

A good olde pulp adventure. Excellent fun!

nharkins's review

1.0

this was a bummer. i really like matt wagner, and his art
was good, but this was just a terrible ripoff of batman.
apparently, it's a "real" DC character from way back,
but it was clearly DC ripping off their own successful
property. wagner tried to stay close to the original,
which would be the correct choice if the character
were original and interesting, but was a mistake here.

as for the story, it moved ridiculously fast, but in circles,
and never went anywhere. every single character was a
cardboard cutout. it seems as though he got the project,
thought up some cool paintings, then just strung them
together in some sequence, logical or not, trying to
hit the expected number of pages.