Comic Review: God Is Dead 1-10
When it comes to long-form, high-concept, epic comics Jonathan Hickman is the reigning champ. From his SHEILD run, to his FF/Fantastic Four run, to his creator owned Manhattan Projects at Image, to three or four others I am forgetting, if you want a comic that plays with big ideas and is willing to use the nearly infinite canvas that comics can provide, these comics are rock.
God Is Dead is no different, here we watch the world shift and change as all of the gods of myth come back and go to war. Any other comic would have stopped there, but not this one. not only does it probe what happens when gods go to war, but what happens after. And what about the humans? And what is a god anyway?
This comic, like most of the comics from Avatar, feel like a great independent comic from the 90’s, it is does not have some of the gloss and polish of a recent DC or Marvel comic. But, that is Avatar’s advantage, they have no content restrictions, the creators can push in whatever directions they choose (see Garth Ennis’s Crossed or Alan Moore’s Neonomicon). This gives the books a freedom not seen even at Vertigo. I think of Avatar books as the “your favorite band’s side project” of comic books. Might not be better than the more mainstream works, but they are sometimes surprising and always interesting.
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