comicgeekelly wrote:After reading issue 2 I can say that I really love this book. The art is fantastic and it's written so well. I wish it wasn't bimonthly, but as long as the quality is strong it really doesn't matter to me.
I'm happy with all these bi-monthly books lately if it keeps these great artists on time.
Well, I have to say I have completely turned around on the breaking the fourth wall "gimmick" as I called it. In retrospect, I completely disagree now with my comments from earlier. Here's why:
- Scarlet talking to the reader is actually not a whole lot different from characters narrating stories, which is a device used by it must be 70% of comic book writers at the moment. Who is the character narrating the story to? The reader. Well, then they're virtually breaking the fourth wall whenever they do that. So really, not a whole lot different to Scarlet talking directly to us.
- As one of the letter writers mentions (and I love Bendis's devotion to the letters page) this is a method used by Shakespeare. I love Shakespeare and it's never bothered me when his characters do it so it shouldn't really bother me when Bendis's characters do. Not that big a deal really.
So even though I still think it probably is a bit of a gimmick, I find myself not minding it at all now.
And on the story - well I enjoyed it but it obviously feels like early days yet. I get the sense everything is going to escalate and it will be very interesting to experience that ride. I suspect it will be a wild one.