Andrew K. (kuligowskiandrewt) -
The Emma Frost that I remember from my days of comic collecting was an intriguing, alluring, and quite complex individual. So, I was excited to get my hands on her origin; 3 graphic novels collecting material originally printed in a comic book limited series
I found the first book, collecting issues 1 through 6, to be quite disappointing. We meet a high school aged Emma and her family. Emma is discovering that she has some kind of unusual abilities, and she's discovering that the members of her family have assorted quirks and issues and secrets. Unfortunately, nothing felt SPECIAL about it I realize that an origin needs to set some background, but the characters feel like cardboard cut-outs; nothing that happens in the first 6 issues really feels surprising. I expected more and am glad I did not actually purchase 6 separate comic books to read the story to this point.
My hope is that the second and third volumes offer more. (SPOILER ALERT: They do.)
P.S. For the record a couple of positives: (1) The artist did manage to effectively capture an awkward high school girl lacking self-confidence who the reader knows is destined to be come an alluring self-confident beauty as she gets older. (2) This collection of pre-published comics is not simply a reprint of the first/next X books in the series there is a theme to the comics reprinted here, and a clear conclusion to the story when we hit the end of the last comic in the collection.
RATING: 2.5 stars, rounded down to 2 stars where necessary.
I found the first book, collecting issues 1 through 6, to be quite disappointing. We meet a high school aged Emma and her family. Emma is discovering that she has some kind of unusual abilities, and she's discovering that the members of her family have assorted quirks and issues and secrets. Unfortunately, nothing felt SPECIAL about it I realize that an origin needs to set some background, but the characters feel like cardboard cut-outs; nothing that happens in the first 6 issues really feels surprising. I expected more and am glad I did not actually purchase 6 separate comic books to read the story to this point.
My hope is that the second and third volumes offer more. (SPOILER ALERT: They do.)
P.S. For the record a couple of positives: (1) The artist did manage to effectively capture an awkward high school girl lacking self-confidence who the reader knows is destined to be come an alluring self-confident beauty as she gets older. (2) This collection of pre-published comics is not simply a reprint of the first/next X books in the series there is a theme to the comics reprinted here, and a clear conclusion to the story when we hit the end of the last comic in the collection.
RATING: 2.5 stars, rounded down to 2 stars where necessary.
