Comics Conspiracy Book Club Review Blue Estate (Image) Starting a review in case Anony is ready to comment as well. Blue Estate is a Noir style series, but suffers a bit from inconsistent artwork by different artists and at times very difficult to tell what has happened. The dialogue is a bit heavy and the use of Russian in stylized font can sometimes be very hard to read. Somewhat akin to Pulp Fiction, each issue focuses on a new character while trying to tell one big caper story. Unfortunately, the first trade only contains issues #1-4 at $9 and is my biggest complaint about this pick. The series is focused on a long-term story and the first four issues do nothing but jump around introducing characters with little info given about their eventual roles (other than something bad is going to happen, a given in most noir stories). While there may be a big payoff at the end of the series, the pacing is very slow (much like the author intentionally wrote this to be a screenplay but failed to sell it and turned it into a comic directly) and the cliche characters really didnt create enough interesting scenes for me to care about the characters or the evolving story enough to stick around past the first trade. In 2 issues, Dead Body Road (Image) grabs the reader and paced much faster than the four issues of Blue Estate. I find the positive review quotes on the back of the trade more of an ironic marketing ploy to beg the reader to keep reading as there is no way the reader can make such educated responses when so little of the story has been revealed within. The comic was far from the worse read, but the decision to collect only four issues in the trade I feel was the worst decision that could have been made and far outweighs the potential of the story. 5/10 Brocks p.s. dont forget to vote on Brocks Blog (conspiratorbrock/2013/12/the-comic-conspiracy-comic-book-club_31.html)
Posted on: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:20:38 +0000
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