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It’s not an overly deep GN compared to what I’ve been reading, which isn’t a bad thing. I like the concept of “psychetecture” and see now the influence this story had on movies such as Dark City which I had watched just a week before unintentionally stumbling onto this book. The characters are not as cliché as I’d expect and there was something slightly tantalizing about their very subtle break of the usual programming that we see in most predictable Hollywood style character development. Perhap...
... Jaime Hernandez's only non-Love & Rockets book from the 1980s? I'm all over this beaut. Its plot is as sleek as its Art Deco setting: Mr X, an architect fueled by a drug that allows him never to sleep, returns to Radiant City, the city he designed with fellow architect Simon Myers, who is now dead after a mysterious suicide. Mr X is the world's foremost practitioner of "psychetecture" -- architecture conceived to enhance its inhabitants' mental well-being; but something went wrong during the...
An unfair comparison perhaps, but the whole time I just wished I was reading Love and Rockets instead. The Hernandez bro's are let down by a weak concept and poor plotting. The book reeks of 80s indie alt superhero.
There was some great artwork yet the writing was awful. The story shows potential but since it is part of a series I don't know how it begins or ends.
08/05/2012
It would be easy, given the title, to assume that this book is a sequel to something. It is not. This collects the first four issues of the Vortex series 'Mr. X,' created by Dean Motter but largely scripted by Gilbert Hernández and with art by Los Bros Hernandez. The titular return regards the character's return to the ubertropolis of Radiant City (openly modelled after Fritz Lang's Metropolis), a city of which he has dubbed himself protector and in the creation of which he had some hand.As is o...
It's the Hernandez brothers, so of course it has flashes of brilliance and Jaime's drawings look wonderful in color, but the story never really goes anywhere and the brothers seem limited by having to fit their distinctive sensibilities to another person's concepts, character and milieu.
