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I read the whole series over the last month or so, and walked away kind of disappointed. I kept buying the trades, at a certain point because I had come so far, I wanted to see the end. But, the series reminds me of Lost. It's got such a killer premise, one that could reveal so much about human nature and society, and instead we spend the whole time caught up in a standard action plot, in Lost's case a mystery thriller, here a road movie style quest. I got no real sense of how society had changed on an individual level. How do family structures change? What do kids who never knew men think of the world? How do relationships change? That fundamental social change is more interesting to me than something like the semi-utopia of the last issue.
Assessing the series on what it is, not what I want it to be, I was disappointed as well. It was roughly the same amount of issues as Preacher, but felt much less epic. I didn't get attached to the characters in the way I did the core three of Preacher. It felt closer to Transmetropolitan, a series that started out strong, peaked around the third or fourth volume, then limped to the conclusion. |
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