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A review by crookedtreehouse
Prophet Volume 2: Brothers by Brandon Graham, Simon Roy
3.0
The art in this series continues to be the big draw. Aliens and landscapes that don't quite look like anything else in comics, backgrounds that vary from stark to highly detailed, some amazing color pops. I love the look of this book.
But while volume one threw you into a strange world, and made you follow along with a series of cloned characters who didn't really know what was happening, this volume brings back characters from the 90s supehero universe.
The first 20 issues of this series came out in the 90s, and were part of Image's rapidly decayed superhero universe of Supreme, Prophet, Glory, and Youngblood. In that series, John Prophet was a poorly drawn rip-off of Captain America, including him being put in stasis after a World War. But in volume one of the relaunch, he's part of some clone project in the far flung future with an unclear mission. It was glorious. But now we're tying this vibrant new idea to the old ones by reintroducing Diehard, and putting much of the focus on the "original" Old Man Prophet.
Ehhh.
It's by no means terrible, but it also doesn't have the spark of the previous volume. I'm going to keep reading it because I love the artwork, but I am much less excited in the weirdness of the story than I was during the last arc.
I still recommend it to people who enjoy unusual sci-fi landscapes and creatures, and maybe this will also appeal to fans of the old Liefeld Image superheroes.
But while volume one threw you into a strange world, and made you follow along with a series of cloned characters who didn't really know what was happening, this volume brings back characters from the 90s supehero universe.
The first 20 issues of this series came out in the 90s, and were part of Image's rapidly decayed superhero universe of Supreme, Prophet, Glory, and Youngblood. In that series, John Prophet was a poorly drawn rip-off of Captain America, including him being put in stasis after a World War. But in volume one of the relaunch, he's part of some clone project in the far flung future with an unclear mission. It was glorious. But now we're tying this vibrant new idea to the old ones by reintroducing Diehard, and putting much of the focus on the "original" Old Man Prophet.
Ehhh.
It's by no means terrible, but it also doesn't have the spark of the previous volume. I'm going to keep reading it because I love the artwork, but I am much less excited in the weirdness of the story than I was during the last arc.
I still recommend it to people who enjoy unusual sci-fi landscapes and creatures, and maybe this will also appeal to fans of the old Liefeld Image superheroes.