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Hello Boyz and Girlz... Believe me you have been in my heart these months, TrackerWolf, FreneticLad... Oh, I'm sure you know that.
To the topic at hand. Just got the trade, and read through issues 1 to 5, stopped because the caffeteria was closing, and wife won't buy I was reading a super-hero comicbook for hour and half (yes, JMS fits waaaay too much text in panels). And then I thought: what they might be saying the folks at ole'Barb?
Okay. What I like most? The emphasis on Hyperion being an ET alien, and also the alien-ation he suffers simply from his idiotic education and upbringing. That is absolutely priceless. And I sort of get into his own melancholia, like everybody else probably does. I anticipate most of us are going to shed tears at some of Hyperion's moments ahead in his life.
What I don't like? Lets face it. In many ways it is a needless, reptitious and boring re-hash, re-boot, re-visitation, re-reading, whatevere, of the "oh-ma-God-super-beings-and-super-heroes-are-all-around-us" comic-book, while I am about to YAAAAWWWWNNN.
And you know what is the one thing that gets most on my nerves? The naif US governement portrayal, or any other modern state government portrayal. It just stinks of blatantly bad naivieté.
While it is a nice and innovative plot twist (having supes being raised by Bush father to put it short) lets face the simple and obvious fact. If just about any government on Earth could get its paws on a kid like this, they would train him, not raise him, like kid-terrorists are being trained. They would teach him whatever the Intellignece Dept. teaches to their military assassins and leaders, and then they would start the race to rule the world, the world, as simply as that. This would be the kind of fact that awakens the Iron Fist Dictator in any of us. But, oh, the story takes place in a lofty US, a US not that different to that in other superhero comicbook titles.
And it is also way to much US centered. Although I might be unfair on this, because maybe JMS has the idea of bringing other "supra" powered beings from other countries, but so far...
In short, I think we needed it, but shorter, bits of it I'd say, bits like that portraying poor Mark sadly trying to use reading glasses to look a bit more normal like everybody else.
I'll read issue 6 tomorrow. I am yawning awfully now. Now hit me. |
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Although many are confused as to whether this is a miniseries or an ongoing series...