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aceinit's review against another edition
3.0
Overall, an interesting premise and a great lead-in for Top Cow's apparently universal reboot. The final issue leaves you hanging, waiting to see what effects Jackie's decision will have on Witchblade, The Darkness and the other titles involved in this crossover.
But, ultimately, I think Top Cow expanded too far and tried to bring too many things into Artifacts. Many of the bearers existed solely to make an appearance, and many characters readers have come to know and love ultimately have very little page time. The inclusion of the Cyberforce and Hunter-Killer characters exist solely for the sake of action sequences. Others, such as Ian Nottingham and Abby Van Alstiene are woefully under-used.
And, after a while, the double-meanings of Hope just a little irksome.
But, ultimately, Artifacts accomplishes its goal of rsolving current arcs for long-time readers and paving the way for new directions. I abandoned Witchblade somewhere around issue 80, but this reboot may be just the kick I needed to pick up the title again.
But, ultimately, I think Top Cow expanded too far and tried to bring too many things into Artifacts. Many of the bearers existed solely to make an appearance, and many characters readers have come to know and love ultimately have very little page time. The inclusion of the Cyberforce and Hunter-Killer characters exist solely for the sake of action sequences. Others, such as Ian Nottingham and Abby Van Alstiene are woefully under-used.
And, after a while, the double-meanings of Hope just a little irksome.
But, ultimately, Artifacts accomplishes its goal of rsolving current arcs for long-time readers and paving the way for new directions. I abandoned Witchblade somewhere around issue 80, but this reboot may be just the kick I needed to pick up the title again.
shane_tiernan's review against another edition
3.0
I said I wasn't going to finish this but then I realized I already had the comics so decided to read them. The characters are cool, the plot was pretty standard. I think I probably would have loved this if I had read a bunch of comics before this with all the characters in them, but instead I got a ton of new characters thrown at me at once, so I was often confused.
atlantiareads's review against another edition
4.0
Wowza! What even happened here? Still wasn't a huge fan of the art but the story blew me away!
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