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A review by tobin_elliott
FAUST: Love Of The Damned by David Quinn
challenging
dark
fast-paced
2.5
Well. So that's done.
God's honest truth, I'm still not sure what I read. The actual reading part was...not enjoyable. Not in the least. Honestly, for much of it, whenever Quinn had two people in a conversation, it was like each was carrying on their own monologue, mostly unrelated to what the other was also monologuing about.
The art was frequently gorgeous, however. Like Mike Golden around his Micronauts period crossed with Bernie Wrightson, with a hint of Paul Gulacy. Vigil is a great artist and he brought a gorgeous visual look to all the violence and explicit sex Quinn (often needlessly) demanded.
I've seen this compared to Moore's WATCHMEN and Miller's DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. And yes, while it plays in the same deconstructed superhero sandbox as those two, and while it does push the boundaries of what we've seen in mainstream comics from the angle of extreme violence and bloodshed, as well as sex, it truly can't hold a candle to either of the other two from a storytelling standpoint.
Four stars for the art, virtually no stars for the story.
God's honest truth, I'm still not sure what I read. The actual reading part was...not enjoyable. Not in the least. Honestly, for much of it, whenever Quinn had two people in a conversation, it was like each was carrying on their own monologue, mostly unrelated to what the other was also monologuing about.
The art was frequently gorgeous, however. Like Mike Golden around his Micronauts period crossed with Bernie Wrightson, with a hint of Paul Gulacy. Vigil is a great artist and he brought a gorgeous visual look to all the violence and explicit sex Quinn (often needlessly) demanded.
I've seen this compared to Moore's WATCHMEN and Miller's DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. And yes, while it plays in the same deconstructed superhero sandbox as those two, and while it does push the boundaries of what we've seen in mainstream comics from the angle of extreme violence and bloodshed, as well as sex, it truly can't hold a candle to either of the other two from a storytelling standpoint.
Four stars for the art, virtually no stars for the story.