As stated in the title of this post, this is a comic book review..but also, a review of the entire idea of buying monthly pamphlet-styled comic books. You will hopefully understand why I felt the need to make such a referendum by the end of this post.
DC’s Inferior 5 is an originally a 12-issue mini-series (and we will revisit that little detail shortly) featuring two masters of the quirky comic book, Keith Giffen and Jeff Lemire, co-plotting the story. This title should have been the retro-cool quirkfest of my dreams, and yet the result was nearly incomprehensible and, I’m sorry to say, a bit ugly to look at as well.
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Ok, so the original Napoleon Dynamite movie came out in 2004…yes, fifteen years ago (feel old yet?)! It featured an awkward, socially maladjusted teenager and his awkward, socially maladjusted friends and was very very popular. A bajillion products and tie-ins and parodies were spawned from the instant sleeper classic…and then it went away.
