Started: 14/10/21
Finidhed: 32/10/21
Spoilers: Mild
Thank you Netgalley and Boom! Studios for letting me read a free copy for an honest review. You da best.
Now, my review of this graphic novel is by no means a reflection on Keanu Reeves as a person, nor the calibre of his talent. He's the internet's sweetheart and I defy anyone to try and to say a bad word about him.
You can't. It's impossible. He's just too nice.
Now on to my honest thoughts on this comic book.
First impression, I liked it. It reminded me a lot of The Old Guard. There's this thousands of years old immortal badass, something of an assassin, sent out to kill certain people. He can get hurt, he can even die, but he'll always heal. And he's so tired of this shit.
I thought it was really cool and awesomely gruesome. The level is violence is far greater than any comic book I've ever read. There's just so much of it.
I will say that this did feel too much like an introduction though. Like it's setting up for the next volume where things really kick-off, but it never quite reaches it in this volume.
Volume one is mostly the backstop of the character. Some of the dialogue felt a little redundant, repeating the same ideas and exploring the same concepts, (after all, for a killing machine to recall his long history of killing, it inevitably will start to all feel the same). I got the just of his backstory pretty quickly and once I understood his past, all I wanted to see was his present, or rather his imminent future. I wanted to see how he would mice forward and possibly take back control of his life. However, I feel there are too many pages of the dude remembering stuff and telling his therapist that he remembers. But all this being said, I actually think that now we have the backstory established and out the way, the next volume has the potential to be mega, and I'll definitely check it out.
I know people are moaning about this, but I actually really liked the fact that the main character looked a lot like Keanu himself. Why the fuck not? It makes it incredibly easy to visualise this as a movie. I like to sort of watch books play out in my head like movies, even comics which are already so visual, so the use of the actor's likeness was appreciated by me. And I thought it was pretty clever tbh. If this does get optioned as a movie, it literally comes with its own lead actor.
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