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I don't think many people are saying this is a bad comic, it isn't - it's just not a particularly exciting one either. It is also a comic that has an amount of expectational baggage.
Firstly, it is being sold as an Alan Moore project. In a very real sense it isn't, and while such a tactic might get people to check out the title once, it is also likely to alienate and disappoint them once they discover that Leah Moore and John Rep. are not Alan Moore.
Secondly, the characters in Albion have been revisited at least 3 times, possibly more, over the years, with varying degrees of officiality and success. You really have to do something very different and quite spectacular to make Albion distinctive from the previous comics that have covered the same ground - particularly Zenith and Jack Staff.
But, yeah, Albion was probably always going to be a bit of a hard sell, harder still for relatively new writers attempting to step out of the massive shadow of their relatives... |
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