Man of God #'s 2 and 3 Combo Review
Pinwheel Press
Creator/Writer: Craig Partin
Pencils: Yvel Guichet
Inks: Stu Berryhill
Letters: Jonathan Swinney
Reviewer: Ross Rivers
Summary: John Morris's quest for answers is soon besieged with trouble at every turn. While another's journey to Chicago is filled with mystery while a hunt begins its own journey. And soon John's quest for answers leads him to a new home that will be the start of helping unlock answers.
Review: I don’t give bad reviews all that often but I gave Man of God a pretty bad one. I said it was a rip off of Spawn and that it was dull. I stand by that review because the first issue was so boring that it was almost painful.
So I was surprised when Rob came to me, saying that the creators of Man of God (Craig Partin and Yvel Guichet) had asked to have issues two and three reviewed.
See, that’s real nice. Instead of calling me names or ignoring my review they’ve decided to challenge it with more work. That’s how you react to a bad review folks.
I put this review off for a long time since, well, I didn’t want to read the comic. I know I said that the end of the first issue showed potential but I wasn’t optimistic about issue 2.
I was right about issue 2, actually. It’s still a Spawn rip off, right down to the homeless guys taking him in. The art’s nice, just like it was in issue one, but that’s about it for the majority of the book. The stuff I said was interesting about issue one is still here, of course. It’s just unfortunate that all the stuff is away from our hero, John.
Also, Detective Boone, investigating John’s murder and trying to get into his widow’s pants, is kind of annoying and doesn’t seem like a very good detective.
Again, it gets interesting near the end when a character who looks a lot like Kevin Smith’s Onomatopoeia shows up. With the spiral mask and everything. But the guy seems interesting and has a real nice design.
So, on the issue three... I actually had to sit and think for a minute with this one. I had to reflect on issue’s one and two. Were they as bad as I thought?
Pinwheel Press
Creator/Writer: Craig Partin
Pencils: Yvel Guichet
Inks: Stu Berryhill
Letters: Jonathan Swinney
Reviewer: Ross Rivers
Summary: John Morris's quest for answers is soon besieged with trouble at every turn. While another's journey to Chicago is filled with mystery while a hunt begins its own journey. And soon John's quest for answers leads him to a new home that will be the start of helping unlock answers.
Review: I don’t give bad reviews all that often but I gave Man of God a pretty bad one. I said it was a rip off of Spawn and that it was dull. I stand by that review because the first issue was so boring that it was almost painful.
So I was surprised when Rob came to me, saying that the creators of Man of God (Craig Partin and Yvel Guichet) had asked to have issues two and three reviewed.
See, that’s real nice. Instead of calling me names or ignoring my review they’ve decided to challenge it with more work. That’s how you react to a bad review folks.
I put this review off for a long time since, well, I didn’t want to read the comic. I know I said that the end of the first issue showed potential but I wasn’t optimistic about issue 2.
I was right about issue 2, actually. It’s still a Spawn rip off, right down to the homeless guys taking him in. The art’s nice, just like it was in issue one, but that’s about it for the majority of the book. The stuff I said was interesting about issue one is still here, of course. It’s just unfortunate that all the stuff is away from our hero, John.
Also, Detective Boone, investigating John’s murder and trying to get into his widow’s pants, is kind of annoying and doesn’t seem like a very good detective.
Again, it gets interesting near the end when a character who looks a lot like Kevin Smith’s Onomatopoeia shows up. With the spiral mask and everything. But the guy seems interesting and has a real nice design.
So, on the issue three... I actually had to sit and think for a minute with this one. I had to reflect on issue’s one and two. Were they as bad as I thought?
Issue three offers a lot more. The homeless crowd aren’t a permanent thing but are there to provide a way to develop John’s character. And, in my opinion, this worked remarkably well. Those inner monologues I said were stupid? Yeah, they work now.
John, while chilling with the hobo crowd, hears some domestic abuse in a nearby building. Everyone says he should leave it be, that those people are now above him and shouldn’t be spoken to. He doesn’t belong in their world any more.
John gets involved anyway. His monologues are cheesy and outdated but this scene shows that he’s a cheesy and outdated hero living in a modern world. The consequences aren’t so important to him anymore because they don’t matter as long as he does what’s right.
It seems like Partin is writing a superhero we all would have loved growing up and putting him in a world with consequences more realistic than those in a comic book world. I don’t know if this was intention but, intentional or not, this series could be an interesting commentary on the nature of modern superheroes.
But this is just the beginning. At the very least it’s an interesting book with a slow start. But what could happen is a little less predictable than I thought.
As much as I’m praising issue three, it had problems. The dialogue is probably my biggest issue with it, actually. Everything sounds a bit forced and unnatural. Sometimes a panel can benefit from no dialogue.
It’s also a bit jumpy here and there. We go from one scene to the next without warning and there are a lot of different places to go. While I appreciate the different angles and themes being explored, it should be taken down a bit.
Just like issue one, the art is real nice. It seems a little flat and would benefit from some extra shading or, ideally, a decent colourist but it’s good art. Besides that one problem, I can’t find a fault with it.
So, I was impressed with issue three and now I’m a little more excited about the book. I’m worried about being let down but that’s true of any book.
4 out of 5 Stars
Editor's Note: To grab yourself a copy of issues 2 and 3, head on over to the Facebook page! Also, the good folks at Pinwheel Press are currently running a Kickstarter for Man of God's issues 4 through 6. So be sure to check that out!
John, while chilling with the hobo crowd, hears some domestic abuse in a nearby building. Everyone says he should leave it be, that those people are now above him and shouldn’t be spoken to. He doesn’t belong in their world any more.
John gets involved anyway. His monologues are cheesy and outdated but this scene shows that he’s a cheesy and outdated hero living in a modern world. The consequences aren’t so important to him anymore because they don’t matter as long as he does what’s right.
It seems like Partin is writing a superhero we all would have loved growing up and putting him in a world with consequences more realistic than those in a comic book world. I don’t know if this was intention but, intentional or not, this series could be an interesting commentary on the nature of modern superheroes.
But this is just the beginning. At the very least it’s an interesting book with a slow start. But what could happen is a little less predictable than I thought.
As much as I’m praising issue three, it had problems. The dialogue is probably my biggest issue with it, actually. Everything sounds a bit forced and unnatural. Sometimes a panel can benefit from no dialogue.
It’s also a bit jumpy here and there. We go from one scene to the next without warning and there are a lot of different places to go. While I appreciate the different angles and themes being explored, it should be taken down a bit.
Just like issue one, the art is real nice. It seems a little flat and would benefit from some extra shading or, ideally, a decent colourist but it’s good art. Besides that one problem, I can’t find a fault with it.
So, I was impressed with issue three and now I’m a little more excited about the book. I’m worried about being let down but that’s true of any book.
4 out of 5 Stars
Editor's Note: To grab yourself a copy of issues 2 and 3, head on over to the Facebook page! Also, the good folks at Pinwheel Press are currently running a Kickstarter for Man of God's issues 4 through 6. So be sure to check that out!