Strange Adventures is a shallow boring scifi story going at a tedious pace.
But it's also praised as being an intelligent character drama and guaranteed another eisner for King and Co.
Strange Adventures is a shallow boring scifi story going at a tedious pace
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Tom King is hack
And no amount of bitching will stop it, Zig Forums
Tom King writes the least intelligent characters imaginable.
Regardless of that I still have a lot to bitch about, like how this isn't scifi but a boilerplate noir story in a bad spaceman costume.
So not only is it story that does nothing with the scifi elements, the mystery itself is not a mystery.
Adam Strange must have committed war crimes because why else would you raise the question? This has been apparent since the first issue.
Counterpoint: I don't think Adam Strange has been getting the praise his Mister Miracle got.
I feel like it's pretty clear there's gonna be a "war crimes and war heroes are the same it just depends on what side you're on" thing. I'm just kinda interested in how bad said crimes are.
also what happens to the daughter
There's no mystery who killed that guy either because there are no other possible suspects. It's either Adam or Alanna.
The mystery is what the truth is.
>mfw DShit keeps trying to push CIA hack to no avail
But.... but the flashbacks on other planets?
Just kidding, it really is an odd sci-fi story.
Blame the stretched story, the whole plot is original 2 or 3 issues long
This book got front loaded with critical praise the first issue and that momentum will carry this book unscathed up to the final issue. There people will say the series didn't stick the landing there but they already gave out the gold star.
But there is no mystery.
I haven't read this.
Why does Adam Strange want to kill himself?
I'm so disappointed in Shaner in how lifeless he makes Rann.
Is this a beautiful alien landscape?
Yes.
Is it a bland alien landscape?
Also yes.
>Is this a beautifull rocky mountain lamdscape?
Ftfy
Exactly my point, that could've been neat if there was anything in it. Last time I checked Rann had cloud elementals that would've made it not so boring.
King's booka isn't about suicide but war crimes and iraq.
Oh look, it's another "Tom King monetizes his history of horrific things voluntarily carried out against innocent civilians as a member of the CIA by acting like he's real sad about it" series.
The irony is that those cheesy silver age stories tom is trying to satirize with those fake flashbacks had more depth and worldbuilding than what strange adventures 2020 is offering.
This one isn't about suicide, it's about war crimes
>eisner
that award don't mean anything at this point
this
>blame the stretched story
On fucking who? King is being given the keys here if he ruined his own story by sextupling it in length that's a product of him being a fucking hack.
Technically it's about colonialism.
>Adam Strange is one of a long line of characters—like Tarzan and Flash Gordon, stolid men with dimpled chins who thrive in ‘foreign lands’—who stand in as a metaphor for a 19th century European dream of colonialism,” said King. “Of course, colonialism was nothing like this dream, and it’s that contrast that interests me: the bloody gap between the myth and the reality
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As always it's King assuaging his personal guilt for the war crimes he committed, but a Zeta beam didn't pull him to Iraq. He went there of his own free will.
But Rann is more advanced than Earth, that makes no fucking sense
You sure about that?
Because the whole thing has been about Adam being a war criminal and very little "colonialism bad".
Someone call Josh Luna, a white guy ripped off his idea for Colonial Man.
It's King making the claim. So just more of King being braindead. More to the point, it's laughable that the man was literally the arm of American colonialism and wants to talk shit on the concept. Failing to understand it didn't die with the 19th century lmfao.
>underground invaders
>jumping out of the ground
Based
I blame king and DC, but i mean the stretched story is the reason that the anons feels that way.
>It's King making the claim. So just more of King being braindead
Yeah, it's not even going full ham with the "white savior" trope either so who the fuck knows what he's talking about
>I'm just kinda interested in how bad said crimes are.
He went full genocide.
It was just massive exposition and deus ex machinas
19th century european colonialists are war criminals user.
They're so advanced that they need an average archaeologist to become their Alpha Chad savior