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A review by crookedtreehouse
Rai, Volume 4: 4001 A.D. by Matt Kindt
3.0
This should be the first volume of Rai.
I know comic book writers and editors like to throw you into a story, get you really hooked on a character, and then backtrack to show you how they got their powers/how they met their adversary/why they chose their sparkly tights, but this series could have really benefitted from giving us the first four issues where in every issue we see a version of a mysterious Rai character rise to power and then be destroyed by Father, to be replaced by something different. Then issue five follows the new Rai who decides to rebel. It would have been cool.
Why you would choose to end a series with an origin story is beyond me. It's a poor editorial decision.
The actual story is told much clearer and intriguingly then the three volumes that precede it, and I found [a:Cafu|2877581|Cafu|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1608932821p2/2877581.jpg]'s art more eye catching and dynamic than [a:Clayton Crain|54930|Clayton Crain|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s.
Of all the Rai books, this is the one I'd most recommend. It's a pity that none of the others that I've read so far were this solid.
I know comic book writers and editors like to throw you into a story, get you really hooked on a character, and then backtrack to show you how they got their powers/how they met their adversary/why they chose their sparkly tights, but this series could have really benefitted from giving us the first four issues where in every issue we see a version of a mysterious Rai character rise to power and then be destroyed by Father, to be replaced by something different. Then issue five follows the new Rai who decides to rebel. It would have been cool.
Why you would choose to end a series with an origin story is beyond me. It's a poor editorial decision.
The actual story is told much clearer and intriguingly then the three volumes that precede it, and I found [a:Cafu|2877581|Cafu|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1608932821p2/2877581.jpg]'s art more eye catching and dynamic than [a:Clayton Crain|54930|Clayton Crain|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]'s.
Of all the Rai books, this is the one I'd most recommend. It's a pity that none of the others that I've read so far were this solid.