Post by G on May 4, 2010 12:52:27 GMT -5
One book I picked up over the weekend is Brightest Day #0. I kind of bought it on a whim, being I heard a little bit about it and because I was at Zeno's FCBD, I wanted to buy something and this is one book I picked up. The Finch fan out cover is typical stuff for a multicharacter book, but since it was a zero issue I didn't mind.
The book itself read along pretty well. I was actually enjoying it. I would consider getting more of these to find out more that is going on. At the end is a checklist spread out over 3 months in various books. At first it didn't look bad, but then I counted it and there is 28 books to complete the series. The chances of me doing that are like less than 1%. I may be inclined to buy a few of the 1st couple of issues of this, but I imagine, I'm eventually going to lose interest, which I find to be a problem with multicomic crossovers. I don't want to buy a bunch of books Im not interested in. This would be better served to me as a single standing comic running its course one issue at a time.
The art was very good. Much above average, with lavish backgrounds and good storytelling. I never had to guess where any character was or what they were doing. There wasn't any solid spaced backgrounds where it looked like the artist didn't have time or imagination for it. The art was not over stylized or posed. It was good storytelling and well done. It was an asset to the book.
My only real complaint was being led from scene to scene between all the characters. Yes, it introduces you to characters, scenes and storylines, but everytime you start getting into a scene, it switches into another scene. Again, I know thats part of the draw you in scenario. But I find a lot of multi-character plots do stuff like this and it gets old after awhile. At some point you want to get to the meat of the story. Being an introduction to a 28 part book, I would imagine its too soon for that and it gets to it later. But for now, its scene to scene, character to character moments and then the end (next issue time).
Like I said, overall it was enjoyable and well made and if I seen some of the other opening books I would try and pick them up to see how it progresses. But the chances of me going much further than one or two more issues are almost completely nill. Which I think explains its weakness on me at least, right there. Probably too immense for its own good. But if your prepared for all those chapters, I'd say it was off to a good start.
The book itself read along pretty well. I was actually enjoying it. I would consider getting more of these to find out more that is going on. At the end is a checklist spread out over 3 months in various books. At first it didn't look bad, but then I counted it and there is 28 books to complete the series. The chances of me doing that are like less than 1%. I may be inclined to buy a few of the 1st couple of issues of this, but I imagine, I'm eventually going to lose interest, which I find to be a problem with multicomic crossovers. I don't want to buy a bunch of books Im not interested in. This would be better served to me as a single standing comic running its course one issue at a time.
The art was very good. Much above average, with lavish backgrounds and good storytelling. I never had to guess where any character was or what they were doing. There wasn't any solid spaced backgrounds where it looked like the artist didn't have time or imagination for it. The art was not over stylized or posed. It was good storytelling and well done. It was an asset to the book.
My only real complaint was being led from scene to scene between all the characters. Yes, it introduces you to characters, scenes and storylines, but everytime you start getting into a scene, it switches into another scene. Again, I know thats part of the draw you in scenario. But I find a lot of multi-character plots do stuff like this and it gets old after awhile. At some point you want to get to the meat of the story. Being an introduction to a 28 part book, I would imagine its too soon for that and it gets to it later. But for now, its scene to scene, character to character moments and then the end (next issue time).
Like I said, overall it was enjoyable and well made and if I seen some of the other opening books I would try and pick them up to see how it progresses. But the chances of me going much further than one or two more issues are almost completely nill. Which I think explains its weakness on me at least, right there. Probably too immense for its own good. But if your prepared for all those chapters, I'd say it was off to a good start.
