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A review by dantastic
Enigma by Peter Milligan
4.0
Michael Smith's boring life is going nowhere when characters from a comic book from his childhood start appearing in the real world...
I've got about half of Peter Milligan's run on Shade in long boxes in the basement and Enigma has been on my radar for years so I snapped it up at a convention not long ago for the princely sum of five bucks.
Enigma came out during Vertigo's early days so it has that WTF feel a lot of early Vertigo books have at first. On some level, Enigma is a deconstruction of the super hero genre, an examination of what an omnipotent being might do if he was isolated and alone for most of his life. It's also a story about human sexuality, about breaking out of your comfort zone. It's also about flying lizards.
The Enigma is a super hero from Michael Smith's favorite comic book from his childhood. When the Enigma and other characters from his stories start appearing all over town, Michael goes looking for the creator of Enigma to find out what's what.
Peter Milligan has always written some intelligent, crazy, twisted shit and Enigma is more of the same. This is one crazy book that takes the super hero concept in strange new directions. When an omnipotent being spends a couple decades living in a well by himself, how else is he going to act?
My only real gripe with the book is that Duncan Fegredo's is a little cluttered and a little too muddy. It still gets the job done, though. His Enigma is creepy as hell at times and his style is grounded in reality, as befits the story.
With Enigma, Peter Milligan stretches the super hero concept about as far as it can go. Four out of five flying lizards.
I've got about half of Peter Milligan's run on Shade in long boxes in the basement and Enigma has been on my radar for years so I snapped it up at a convention not long ago for the princely sum of five bucks.
Enigma came out during Vertigo's early days so it has that WTF feel a lot of early Vertigo books have at first. On some level, Enigma is a deconstruction of the super hero genre, an examination of what an omnipotent being might do if he was isolated and alone for most of his life. It's also a story about human sexuality, about breaking out of your comfort zone. It's also about flying lizards.
The Enigma is a super hero from Michael Smith's favorite comic book from his childhood. When the Enigma and other characters from his stories start appearing all over town, Michael goes looking for the creator of Enigma to find out what's what.
Peter Milligan has always written some intelligent, crazy, twisted shit and Enigma is more of the same. This is one crazy book that takes the super hero concept in strange new directions. When an omnipotent being spends a couple decades living in a well by himself, how else is he going to act?
My only real gripe with the book is that Duncan Fegredo's is a little cluttered and a little too muddy. It still gets the job done, though. His Enigma is creepy as hell at times and his style is grounded in reality, as befits the story.
With Enigma, Peter Milligan stretches the super hero concept about as far as it can go. Four out of five flying lizards.