David, Peter, et al. - Fallen Angel
Mon, Sep. 20th, 2004 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterI picked this up because while people turn to the Fallen Angel for help, she is also just as likely to turn on someone than not. Yeah. Hooded, cloaked, cold-blooded woman. I so have a type.
I keep picking up random comic books because I shelve that section at the store, which is fun because I don't read them that often -- too expensive and too serial.
This one was rather average. The main storyline of the second half of the book was a pretty hum-drum look at the monster within all of us and unfortunately didn't show any insight into Lee/Fallen Angel at all, despite her rather Batman-esque neuroses. I don't know. The premise so far is interesting, Bete Noir (the city) is reminiscent of Gotham City, but there's nothing particularly deep about this collection that I can figure out. I do enjoy Lee's complete cold-heartedness and the way she just uses sex and her body, and I especially like how the author never apologizes for it or softens her in any way.
But I still can't figure out the central conceit or the central conflict. Will maybe keep an eye out, because, well, I like cold-blooded women in fiction.
I keep picking up random comic books because I shelve that section at the store, which is fun because I don't read them that often -- too expensive and too serial.
This one was rather average. The main storyline of the second half of the book was a pretty hum-drum look at the monster within all of us and unfortunately didn't show any insight into Lee/Fallen Angel at all, despite her rather Batman-esque neuroses. I don't know. The premise so far is interesting, Bete Noir (the city) is reminiscent of Gotham City, but there's nothing particularly deep about this collection that I can figure out. I do enjoy Lee's complete cold-heartedness and the way she just uses sex and her body, and I especially like how the author never apologizes for it or softens her in any way.
But I still can't figure out the central conceit or the central conflict. Will maybe keep an eye out, because, well, I like cold-blooded women in fiction.