Zombipanda
My Boom-Boom's mostly gay
So, I was going to start a discussion thread for Wetworks, and then I realized there probably wouldn't be enough discussion to warrant a full thread, so I figured I'd open this up to talk about all of the series in the Wildstorm Universe as they start to pop up.
So, Wetworks came out this week to kick off the reboot of the Wildstorm Universe, and it's a disappointing start. Let's start with a summary, yeah?
Some top secret facility attacked by a vampire. We get plenty of blood. Cut to a Seattle condo where some high-class business is about to get freaky with some dame. Except, oops, it's a vampire, and she totally eats his face. It turns out she's addicted to (I can only guess) blood-coke, and she works for some group of government handlers. Dane (cyborg dude, who I vaguely remember as the leader of the old team) jumps her inside her car, and convinces her to work for him.
Cut again to New York, where a Frankenstein monster who talks funny is in some medical faciliity. He can cross over to the land of the dead apparently, and doing that, he convinces the medical team to bring back to life some cyber-mummy dame. Finally, Dane, Frankenstein, and the vamp are all meeting up in some facility. They reveal that an eeeevil vampire stole an experimental device called a Blood Box from the facility, which can totally wipe out the human race. Vamp's all "I don't even like humans. I'm totally badass. Let them all die" but ends up helping out when there's an attack on the facility. It turns out to be a werewolf detective. Fine.
Now, I'll be the first to admit, I'm not really familiar with these characters, but that doesn't change the fact that the pacing and the writing is pretty awful. It feels like a cross of that awful remake of House of Dracula, with some Kolchak and Angel (minus the fun) mixed in. It was really bad.... I'm really hoping the other books are much better. 1/5
So, Wetworks came out this week to kick off the reboot of the Wildstorm Universe, and it's a disappointing start. Let's start with a summary, yeah?
Some top secret facility attacked by a vampire. We get plenty of blood. Cut to a Seattle condo where some high-class business is about to get freaky with some dame. Except, oops, it's a vampire, and she totally eats his face. It turns out she's addicted to (I can only guess) blood-coke, and she works for some group of government handlers. Dane (cyborg dude, who I vaguely remember as the leader of the old team) jumps her inside her car, and convinces her to work for him.
Cut again to New York, where a Frankenstein monster who talks funny is in some medical faciliity. He can cross over to the land of the dead apparently, and doing that, he convinces the medical team to bring back to life some cyber-mummy dame. Finally, Dane, Frankenstein, and the vamp are all meeting up in some facility. They reveal that an eeeevil vampire stole an experimental device called a Blood Box from the facility, which can totally wipe out the human race. Vamp's all "I don't even like humans. I'm totally badass. Let them all die" but ends up helping out when there's an attack on the facility. It turns out to be a werewolf detective. Fine.
Now, I'll be the first to admit, I'm not really familiar with these characters, but that doesn't change the fact that the pacing and the writing is pretty awful. It feels like a cross of that awful remake of House of Dracula, with some Kolchak and Angel (minus the fun) mixed in. It was really bad.... I'm really hoping the other books are much better. 1/5