Cheryl Christopher Christopher itibaren Kundai, Madhya Pradesh, India
I am re-reading this one. I really like to 'experience' Lucado time after time.
Graphic Novel. Jesus! Tits left and right. Now, I enjoy breasts as much as the next person who enjoys breasts, but I don't remember this many naked breasts in previous trades, and I really don't remember this title being inclined towards those spine-bending lady superhero poses, but this book's got both and it's a losing combination. It starts with The Race, a one-off where Mayor Hundred is briefly haunted by the ghost of a black slave. Mostly harmless if you excuse the What-This-Dead-Black-Guy-Needs-Is-A-Superpowered-Honky element. Dave, on the other hand, declines the role of magical negro, and says so. Also has a flashback to when he and Hundred met. Dirty Tricks is a multi-chaptered story that features a woman wearing something so atrocious I felt embarrassed to have this in my possession. Total cheesecake. Masquerade is short and nicely fills in a little corner of Hundred's origin story. The art by John Paul Leon is a lot more cartoony than what I'm used to with this title, but the faces actually have more nuance, and I especially like the way Leon drew Candy. The rest of the art is the standard look for the series, slick and colorful, a simplified photorealism, which I like, though I occasionally found myself staring at a panel and wondering what exactly I was looking at. The dialogue is natural and never over-explainy, but also uses the words rape and autistic as metaphors. This was not the triumphant return to Ex Machina I had hoped for. I stopped reading this title years ago because it was steadily becoming less awesome, and this is what I get when I pick it up again? Gratuitous tits and an obsessive fangirl -- their words -- whose sole motivation seems to be getting Hundred's attention while providing plenty of crotch shots? There are only two trades left, so I'm going to finish this series, but yuck.