The first tpb was excellent - zombie Auguste Gustav made me laugh. The Rumour is a great character (too bad she got her throat sliced!), and Spaceboy’s pathos - manifested by his appearance - is captivating. Guess we find out what has happened to the Horror in due course.
I’ve got the first two issues of the second volume. Not sure what to make of a monkey impersonating Marilyn Monroe but I like Kraken’s interaction with the cops.
Its got a great mix of the ludicrous and the poignant. Not bad for someone who is a emo rockstar.
The Apocalypse Suite is the first graphic novel I’ve bought since the Sandman series ended. How long is that? I loved that there is so much weird stuff that’s just presented out of nowhere, and where the back story is just hinted at, sometimes just by a picture’s backgroud. It’s been a while since I read it I’ll have a skim through when I get home and post some more specific praise.
I do remember the non-Daleks shouting everthing except that ‘E’ word that the always Daleks use.
I hated the first series. It comes from the school of writing where you throw as much zany crap against the wall as possible and see what sticks with no regard to actually developing interesting characters or plot. Strip away the nonsensical stuff and you’ve got a clumsily told shallow story.
Take your favorite character the Rumor for example. I didn’t even know what her power was until the back up story at the end of the trade because it’s never stated. I thought she did some kind of mind control but understanding what she does is part of understanding her interactions with the other characters. That’s just plain bad writing.
Difference of opinion, surely. I prefer not to be spoon fed, and was more intrigued by what the Rumour’s powers are without needing to know immediately. We still don’t know who the Horror is nor why he died, and we have only barely gleaned why Spaceboy ended up having his head attached to the body of a gorilla (accident en route to Mars). Surely drip-feed pacing is a matter of taste, not evidence of bad writing.
Otherwise, I liked the plot which I thought was well-established and growled along at a good pace: the characters were all intriguing save perhaps for Kraken who seemed a bit too much like the archetypal tough guy; and the zany stuff was plain amusing.
Huh. It hadn’t even occurred to me that they were quirky Daleks but you’re right.