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A review by trike
Ghost Fleet: The Whole Goddamned Thing by Donny Cates
2.0
The hell I just read?
Some sort of Mad Max mash-up with Big Trouble In Little China/Escape from New York by way of Supernatural, a combination that eventually explodes. Literally.
The last act is just balls-out crazy; on an action scale of 1 to 10, the story oscillates between a 6 and 7 on the blood-and-guts meter and then jumps to a solid 108. It’s got plenty of attitude, but pegging the needle on far end of the weird-shit-o-meter feels like a nutso choice.
The art is fine but the coloring actively fights the story. A couple times I had to go back to try and puzzle out what was going on. It’s some of the worst coloring I’ve seen in years. I typically don’t even mention the coloring because most colorists are quite competent. Not so here.
I really hated what happened to Axl the dog. Completely unnecessary. And fucking brutal. Making a smirking comment about it doesn’t help.
Some sort of Mad Max mash-up with Big Trouble In Little China/Escape from New York by way of Supernatural, a combination that eventually explodes. Literally.
The last act is just balls-out crazy; on an action scale of 1 to 10, the story oscillates between a 6 and 7 on the blood-and-guts meter and then jumps to a solid 108. It’s got plenty of attitude, but pegging the needle on far end of the weird-shit-o-meter feels like a nutso choice.
The art is fine but the coloring actively fights the story. A couple times I had to go back to try and puzzle out what was going on. It’s some of the worst coloring I’ve seen in years. I typically don’t even mention the coloring because most colorists are quite competent. Not so here.
I really hated what happened to Axl the dog. Completely unnecessary. And fucking brutal. Making a smirking comment about it doesn’t help.