Trouble #4 - Mobile Edition

Marvel Comics
Trouble #4
By Kevin Scott
October 26, 2003 - 10:57

Marvel Comics
Epic
Writer(s): Mark Millar
Penciller(s): Terry Dodson
Inker(s): Rachel Dodson
Cover Artist(s): Philippe Bialobos

Well if you haven't heard at least something bout this book I don't know where you've been. The amount of articles an interviews (and debates bout the cover) there have been to advertise it. I mean look, the first book from Marvels new Epic imprint! The story of how Peter Parkers (that's Spider-man by the way) parents and his aunt & uncle hooked up (from what I'm led to believe). This has to be good doesn't it!?!

Where I have found the first three issues of this series to be fun and an enjoyable read, this one really came up short. The story flowed like a river with a dam in the middle of it. Everything seemed rushed, the dialogue was pretty bad and nothing was believable. This issue should have been highly emotional, we should have been able to feel a lot of anger, embarrassment, pain, guilt and stress, but there was nothing!

As with the story the art was seriously lacking this issue. I had previously liked what the Dodson's had done, in the way of giving the book the fell of a 60's, 70's style TV show, ala Happy Days. This issue though, everyone looked wooden, smiles plastered on faces, emotions wrongly captured or jus not holding up. A strange thing I noticed was, there was a weird blob on everyone's nose. Made everyone look off key.

Report Card - C