Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
I’ve come to realize just how little has happened in forty-four chapters and 200 pages. So much time thus far has been spent on character histories that don’t matter in this story, as if they’re setting up the whole series rather than just this book. It’s unnecessary padding for flavor text that just shows off their world-building. This is how long it has taken them to even start investigating stuff since the early chapters. With viral attacks, characters you can’t really care for, and histories that have no impact on the story to define character traits that may or may not influence the series of events this book ends up longer than it needs to be.
Right now, Hwan and Donald in Korea is trying to stop a war being started by a group of extremists who want to kill each other. The title character are fighting a computer virus while the man in charge is worrying about his son and his second-in-command is off playing soldier…and by the way they still aren’t there. I don’t think 24 works as well in this book as it did on TV but I didn’t watch the show. I’m only invested in part of the story while the other half keeps slowing and bogging things down. At least we have two chapters filling the length of one rather than three or four, but I’d still rather only review one chapter at a time. It’s in the article series title after all.
- Chapter 45: Tuesday, 10:05 AM, Op-Center: 6 pages
- Chapter 46: Wednesday, 12:30 AM, outside of Seoul: 6 pages and a few lines of the 7th
Is South Korea really a day plus off from Eastern Time? Man, time zones are bizarre.
BW’s Morning Article Link: Why Make Superhero Comics If You Aren’t DC/Marvel
When I interviewed Billy Tucci one of the pieces of advice he gave was that Marvel and DC Comics had such a lock on the superhero genre that nobody else should bother, and the small press comic community seems to agree. I don’t because I’ve been creating superheroes since fifth or sixth grade and I love superhero stories. Michael Terracciano, writer for the superhero web comic Star Power also disagrees with this advice and wrote a blog explaining why he and artist Garth Graham produced a sci-fi superhero comic.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on February 25, 2019 in Comic Spotlight and tagged commentary, Michael Terracciano, Star Power, superhero comics.
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