In my last review of this title I had suffered from a bit of distance with Irredeemable since I hadn’t read it since the first volume. With a bit of extra time with the book on my hands did it help me with this review of it? This is definitely a review along the lines of yes and no. For there is a lot going on and there are some developments that caught my eye here and there but overall did I get into it more? You’ll see in the review to come and it could be what you expect or not expect my opinion to be. Time to start our adventure back into uncharted territory.
Mark Waid you can tell from his initial concept of the Plutonian going rogue has had to work with the idea of evolving that and taking it to another level. Right now the Plutonian’s in prison with a character Auroran taking him through the prison to try and find a way out of it. As they go through it they explore bits more of the Plutonian’s history and how he came about. Mark Waid does a great job with these parts and how he’s also negotiating his way through this prison is quite a nice touch. He’s fighting his way through and yet he knows when to negotiate and get someone on his side rather than let the fight keep going. I found that pretty clever for the most part. The other part of this is a reveal of how the Plutionian’s powers work and I won’t spoil that part for you but I thought that was nice. Oh and the way one part of his story gets revealed in one fight is actually quite priceless. Greatest use of evil trees ever.
The art side of things is Peter Krause and Diego Barreto sharing art duties for the issue. They both do a great job with what pages they have with each section. Between the adventures in the prison and the other stories in between look good and you can’t really tell too much that there’s too different artists on the book for their styles blend nicely. For considering the story they’re doing unless things are dramatically different having two disparate styles wouldn’t work too well for this story. Overall nicely done and solid art.
To close this out this issue was a bit better for me story wise and in general interest since I do have a better idea what’s going on and there are some plot threads that get introduced that caught my eye. I’m not sure totally what’s going on with some of them but I couldn’t help but be interested in the villain group that’s popping up in the story. If I knew more I might be a bit more invested so to speak but I do like what I see. This book is definitely going in a direction that I think should work fairly well for it for it’s evolving the characters in different ways than you’d think. I wouldn’t mind having just one main artist on the book but the two artists work well together so it’s not a big deal really in general story flow. Mark Waid definitely has some plans for this book and I’ll be curious to see where it leads next.
Review comic provided by Boom! Press
