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Title: Creature Tech by Doug Tennapel, Chris Staros, Digital Chameleon ISBN: 1-891830-34-1 Publisher: Top Shelf Production Pub. Date: 31 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: I've really like Doug TenNapel and heard about his website from the Project Geeker fan site. Well, I've gotta say that this book is great. The stories really good, even if it does have some religious themes in it. It's not overtly preachy and HECK! It even has a large mantis and chest hugging symbiote! What more could one ask. A definite good pick if you like TenNapel's other works like th Earthworm Jim and the Neverhood!
Rating: 5
Summary: Comic Greatness
Comment: The art in this book gorgeous. The writing is really bizarre, and mostly hilarious. I read this in one sitting while waiting to catch a flight, and it was one of the most enjoyable reads I've ever had. This was definitely the best comic for my dollar in 2002. The complaint I hear most often about it though, is that it has christian themes. Well, yeah, the shroud of turin is a christian artifact, so by virtue of it being in the story, you'll have some christian themes. On top of that, the main character has faith issues to overcome, but so what? You don't have to be a Christian to enjoy a story about a Christian. It's a well done story, and despite my lack of religious faith, I found it quite enjoyable, and laugh out loud funny.
Rating: 3
Summary: A cautious recommendation
Comment: This is a hard review to write. There's good news, and there's... other news.
Here's the good news: Doug Tennapel is obviously still a creative genius. His ideas feel fresh and well executed, his characters are sharply defined and (for the most part) realistically rendered, his artwork is clean and engaging. The plot is madcap, the pace is frenetic, the jokes are thick, fast and furious. If this was all this book was, it would have been the best of the year, an out and out five star winner.
Here's the other news: About halfway through, the book suddenly introduces a crazed Christian streak right out of left field, one that only increases in fervor until the whole thing crosses well over the line into outright preachy. For the most part this is inoffensive. The simple faith over hard science perspective, the sudden inexplicable conversions, and the fact that the main character only achieves acceptance in the eyes of his community and the girl he loves after he becomes pious... since I neither believe nor disbelieve in the Christian faith, I am unmoved either way by their inclusion. For better or for worse, it is impossible to consume ANY product of western culture without having a commentary on Christianity at SOME level. What really is unforgivable is that Tennapel becomes so consumed with pounding across his message that everything else is subsumed. The book ends not with a bang but with a wimper, without humor or impact, and it left me feeling unsatisfied and vaguely upset that someone hadn't mention that this was an overextended Jack Chick tribute on the back cover. Maybe I should of expected it - anyone who's read any of Tennapel's rants knows that he flies on the Right, way way out on the Right. But he always managed to keep it on the down low with his previous work. Whatever the case, the message COULD have been delivered with subtlety and grace. Instead, it was delivered with a cattle prod; or, more appropriately, with a tranquilizer gun, all of a sudden, from a long way off, by someone hidden in long grass.
Nevertheless, it's worth a look, if only for the space eels and giant redneck insects.
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Title: Herobear and the Kid: The Inheritance by Mike Kunkel ISBN: 0972125914 Publisher: Astonish Comics Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Wisenheimer Wednesday (Strange Kid Chronicles , No 3) by Doug Tennapel, Mike Koelsch, Michael Koelsch ISBN: 0590059564 Publisher: Apple Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson ISBN: 1891830430 Publisher: Top Shelf Productions Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons ISBN: 0930289234 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Rising Stars : Born In Fire (Vol. 1) by J. Michael Straczynski ISBN: 1582401721 Publisher: Image Comics Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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