Ultimate Power OSHC
by Brian Bendis, Joe Straczynski, Jeph Loeb & Greg Land
This book embodies most of the shortcomings I find in many of today's mainstream superhero comics.
First the good stuff.
The artwork by Greg Land is stupendous! Almost worth the price of admission.
However, great artwork isn't such a rarity nowadays.
Decent writing, however, is another matter.
Now the bad stuff.
Decompressed storytelling to the max.
Basically it is one long succession of mindless and repetitious battle scenes between an ever changing array of super-powered beings who all seem highly
derivative of each other. A lot of money shots without a pay-off
Coupled to that some really corny and annoying dialogue and mindless macho characterisation by the likes of Bendis (the worst offender by far), Straczynski
(who I can take or leave but who was obviously adversely influenced by Bendis) and Loeb (who I usually like but who was apparently dragged down to the same
mindless level of his co-authors).
At the end of the day, when I close a collection of new superheroics, I often honestly wonder why I collect the new stuff anymore.
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