Comments on: Review: Dead @ 17, The complete first series http://brendanpeveril.net/2007/05/22/review-dead-17-the-complete-first-series/ he's totally a writer, you know... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:17:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Luis Boisvert http://brendanpeveril.net/2007/05/22/review-dead-17-the-complete-first-series/#comment-392 Luis Boisvert Thu, 24 May 2007 15:30:23 +0000 http://brendanpeveril.net/2007/05/22/review-dead-17-the-complete-first-series/#comment-392 I largely agree. I find religious overtones tend to end up pretty cliche, and Dead@17 is no exception. I kept seeing opportunities for the Warriors-of-God dynamic to be messed with, but that aspect is pretty much standard. No surprises in the angels department. While the overall setting might be a bit weak, where this title shines is in the detail I think. The characters are interesting and although their big-picture motivations are pretty standard, the way that each of them deal with their situations is where the meat of the story is. And yes, the sweet, stylish jailbait art helps. I actually picked up the book expecting only to appreciate the art and fully expecting the content to be garbage (as is the case with many indy artist-slash-writers (I'm looking at you, Joeseph Michael Linsner (I can nest parentheses with the best of them))). The art brings to mind a gothier (if less experienced) Paul Dini. I have mad respect for <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Dini' rel="nofollow">Paul Dini</a>, <a href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harley_Quinn' rel="nofollow">for obvious reasons</a>. I largely agree. I find religious overtones tend to end up pretty cliche, and Dead@17 is no exception. I kept seeing opportunities for the Warriors-of-God dynamic to be messed with, but that aspect is pretty much standard. No surprises in the angels department.

While the overall setting might be a bit weak, where this title shines is in the detail I think. The characters are interesting and although their big-picture motivations are pretty standard, the way that each of them deal with their situations is where the meat of the story is.

And yes, the sweet, stylish jailbait art helps. I actually picked up the book expecting only to appreciate the art and fully expecting the content to be garbage (as is the case with many indy artist-slash-writers (I’m looking at you, Joeseph Michael Linsner (I can nest parentheses with the best of them))).

The art brings to mind a gothier (if less experienced) Paul Dini. I have mad respect for Paul Dini, for obvious reasons.

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