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A review by dogunderwater
Evil Empire, Volume 1 by Max Bemis
3.0
Okay so I bought this because the "how did we actually get to the dystopian future" is a premise I would really like more of, and it does do that...but like.....really clumsily? This is too Fight Club inspired to be really transgressive or shocking, so while I liked the main character, it just didn't quite coalesce. Max Bemis doesn't really have a great grasp of how the political machine would actually work (or what a fucking scandal it would be if even a Democratic senator running for president was caught shacking up with a rapper who wrote a song called 'Fist Fucking the FBI') so we only get ~stirring speeches~ and obvious power plays rather than any machinations that would be playing out behind the curtain.
Ransom Getty's art is generally very dynamic and fun, but the panel layouts are artless and the character designs too obvious. It's only when the art flips to Andrea Mutti does the villainous Republican senator look anything like a normal person rather than an evil pair of eyebrows.
Max Bemis tries to play with a time skip - from the dystopian future to the crumbling present - but it kind of only serves to undermine the premise, and I don't really give a shit about a world where dudes are wearing Nazi-looking armbands and literally calling themselves the Evil Empire. I mean, where is that going? It's a dead end of story cliches thus far, and the pages would have been served giving me more political insight.
It's whatev, basically.
Ransom Getty's art is generally very dynamic and fun, but the panel layouts are artless and the character designs too obvious. It's only when the art flips to Andrea Mutti does the villainous Republican senator look anything like a normal person rather than an evil pair of eyebrows.
Max Bemis tries to play with a time skip - from the dystopian future to the crumbling present - but it kind of only serves to undermine the premise, and I don't really give a shit about a world where dudes are wearing Nazi-looking armbands and literally calling themselves the Evil Empire. I mean, where is that going? It's a dead end of story cliches thus far, and the pages would have been served giving me more political insight.
It's whatev, basically.