REVIEW: Gwenpool Holiday Special
STORY BYÂ Gerry Duggan, Charles Soule, Christopher Hastings, ART BYÂ Langdon Foss, Juan Gedeon, Danilo S. Beyruth,Â
Hey, I have a great idea, lets take two popular foods and because we think EVERYONE loves them, we will able to charge a whopping $5.99 for it and EVERYONE will be happy!
So here is mint chocolate chip curried ice-cream! Any takers?
So maybe my idea isn’t great, but at least we have Marvel ready to force feed us Gwen Stacy and Deadpool, which they are sure everyone will love.
Now, I have gone through this book a few times and I have to say, I can not find any redeemable content. The style of the art, a cartoony effect that “lends” itself to comedy coupled with a “humorous” script that doesn’t bring the funny is not my idea of anything special.
One of the things that is wrong with the Big Two, is that they both over promote their popular characters. The racks are already bursting at the seems with mutant books or Bat books of various quality.  Fans will say that these characters deserve to have lots of different books. I am a huge Batman fan, however I would like to see more quality books than a glut of poor quality books. In reality, substandard books like this mean that publisher push retailers have to order them to appease fans rather than give readers a genuine choice or help them recognise the potential of a quality independent book. What makes it worse is the price, higher than a standard book, but more pages of drivel doesn’t equate to a better value book.
I may be in the minority, but when publishers put out books like this I am more than a little annoyed at the disregard publishers can hold the one thing they need……..readers, of which in this case, I am glad that I am not.
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- I am a long time comic book fan, being first introduced to Batman in the mid to late 70's. This led to a appreciation of classic artists like Neal Adams and Jim Aparo. Moving through the decades that followed, I have a working knowledge of a huge raft of characters with a fondness for old school characters like JSA and The Shadow
Currently reading a slew of Bat Books, enjoying a mini Marvel revival, and the host of The Definative Crusade and Outside the Panels whilst also appearing on No-Prize Podcast on the Undercover Capes Podcast Network
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