Gold Standard Comics
Nov 2, 2013 12:49:31 GMT -5
Post by Defiant1 on Nov 2, 2013 12:49:31 GMT -5
Dream-Knight #1
For a Christian comics, this story is quite devoid of hope. Bible verses are scattered throughout, but the story seems to be just using that as window dressing. The price is a whopping $7.77. My copy is signed. I bought it from the creator at a convention to be nice. I knew the art was rather unimpressive. I decided to actually break down and read it today. The pacing is irregular. It does have a rather complicated story, but several pages are spent on small talk and romance between the main character and his wife. Word balloons may have benign comments like "Her skin sure is soft." There's a whole page or two dedicated to 2 kids lusting after his wife and a priest reprimanding them. Afterwards, the priest thinks to himself that he was doing the same.
The hero and his wife take a vacation at an Amish village in Ohio so she can research the Amish for a movie role. James Cameran (sic) wanted her for the role. While there and sleeping, the hero and another female character (Vexxus?) encounter a demon and confront him. It's not really clear what is dream world and what is real world. It's almost as if that is completely insignificant. At first I thought his wife was turning into Vexxus (sp?), but later I decided it was another character. Essentially this guy seemed to be having a non-sexual fling on the side with some superpowered female in the dream world. Vexxus has supposedly lived for thousands of year, but looks only 19 according to a bio. The adversary in the comic is a demon so powerful that he only reports to satan. The only reason he reports to Satan is that he's not sure he could overcome Satan. In addition to him there are hordes of demon minions that just attack the hero and prevent him from doing anything he needs to do. Jesus Christ makes a cameo to save his life and give him purpose. At the end, nothing really goes like the hero wants. Many questions are left unanswered. What happened to his wife? If he dies in his dream, does he die in real life? Is the author more interested in Satan than salvation? You simply can't tell from reading the comic. This is full color with glossy pages. It is the size of two or three comics all bound as one. I was too lazy to count the pages.
Defiant1
For a Christian comics, this story is quite devoid of hope. Bible verses are scattered throughout, but the story seems to be just using that as window dressing. The price is a whopping $7.77. My copy is signed. I bought it from the creator at a convention to be nice. I knew the art was rather unimpressive. I decided to actually break down and read it today. The pacing is irregular. It does have a rather complicated story, but several pages are spent on small talk and romance between the main character and his wife. Word balloons may have benign comments like "Her skin sure is soft." There's a whole page or two dedicated to 2 kids lusting after his wife and a priest reprimanding them. Afterwards, the priest thinks to himself that he was doing the same.
The hero and his wife take a vacation at an Amish village in Ohio so she can research the Amish for a movie role. James Cameran (sic) wanted her for the role. While there and sleeping, the hero and another female character (Vexxus?) encounter a demon and confront him. It's not really clear what is dream world and what is real world. It's almost as if that is completely insignificant. At first I thought his wife was turning into Vexxus (sp?), but later I decided it was another character. Essentially this guy seemed to be having a non-sexual fling on the side with some superpowered female in the dream world. Vexxus has supposedly lived for thousands of year, but looks only 19 according to a bio. The adversary in the comic is a demon so powerful that he only reports to satan. The only reason he reports to Satan is that he's not sure he could overcome Satan. In addition to him there are hordes of demon minions that just attack the hero and prevent him from doing anything he needs to do. Jesus Christ makes a cameo to save his life and give him purpose. At the end, nothing really goes like the hero wants. Many questions are left unanswered. What happened to his wife? If he dies in his dream, does he die in real life? Is the author more interested in Satan than salvation? You simply can't tell from reading the comic. This is full color with glossy pages. It is the size of two or three comics all bound as one. I was too lazy to count the pages.
Defiant1