Kristin Baver

I have been following the High Republic project and as it progresses I am finding my interest waning, and this book does little to rejuvenate it. I guess I was hoping to get more of a visual sense of what the High Republic was like, but this did not scratch that itch. For one thing, most of the art was already made publicly available. For another, a lot of the art was rudimentary sketches made by artist Iain McCaig. And yet another, there are a few pages of sketches of background characters--which I liked--but the text did not even try to rekindle my memory of these characters.

Probably the most interesting artistic choice made was the voice actor Marc Thompson's choice to make the big baddie have a soft voice, like he was a precocious adolescent or something. I thought that choice was more illuminating about the character than anything visual comic book artists have put together, but there is nothing on that here.… (mer)