Holy crap! This is the best graphic novel that I have read in a long time. The premise is that a strange event has taken place in a city full of superheroes. All of the supers go crazy and are hunting and killing the civilians. The story feels like reading the Walking Dead, but the zombies are the Justice League. I find this book scarier, because one can always outrun a zombie but could someone outrun the Flash? This book makes superheroes scary. Highly recommended for mature comic lovers. I was one of the Kickstarter backers and had high expectations of this book. Unfortunately, it didn't deliver. The premise is interesting and tonally the mood is very much perfect. The characters are diverse, but a bit stereotypical, and I hated seeing yet another woman protagonist motivated by family violence. I know Simone can write a strong woman protagonist who doesn't need a tragic back story inflected with rape and abused women. Unfortunately the protagonist is the only character we really have time to know, and as such there is no investment in their fates. It's all a bit too rushed--especially the gathering of the group which happens all too fast and far too coincidentally--and could serve as a great first issue of a longer arc, but doesn't fare well on its own. Too much is unexplained, we know too little about the city and its denizens. Occasionally the main story is interrupted by brief excerpts from congressional hearings, but those are insufficiently fleshed out to make much sense of them. They merely suggest a larger, botched response. The art is great, the colors are perfect, and you do feel like you are in a post-apocalyptic city. That you are reading a horror, not a superhero, story is clear, and all to the better. The short story at the end I found more satisfying in many ways than the main story. 3/5 stars. A quick, relatively entertaining read, but I was expecting much better.
What do You think about Leaving Megalopolis (2013)?
I backed the kickstarter project and the art is gorgeous and the story is original and so good.
—Bri
Nice art, but holy crap nothing happened in this book. oh well. maybe just not my thing...
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