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The Movement Vol. 1: Class Warfare (2014)

by Gail Simone(Favorite Author)

3.54 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1401246400 (ISBN13: 9781401246402)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

DC Comics

review 1: AKA DC meets the 99%... This is an issues book, with a group of young, new powers basically deciding the police are corrupt and deciding to exist without them. It's... topical? But ultimately I wasn't fond of the basic concept, and the book seemed more chaotic than interesting. Lots of stuff going on, and although some of the characters got some development, others barely registered. Mouse is the most fun of the characters, and takes on Simone's crazy character role (see Ragdoll), whereas Virtue and Katharsis seemed interchangeable for much of the collection. And what kind of a name (and power) is Vengeance Moth? Even when she was displaying her power, I wasn't sure what was going on. The villains are corrupt cops, which while an issue of interest just feels really un... morecomfortable here. There's also some direction toward the 1% as real villains, with a bevy of new villains also thrown into the mix. That's a lot of newness without any real grounding (even the city is new, as far as I can tell), and none of it stands out enough to make it connect. I don't know - it was okay, I guess, but nothing that makes me want to continue reading. And definitely not up to Simone's usual standards.
review 2: I think I get what Gail Simone and the art team was trying for here. A rough look at the underside of the DCNew52, and using the formerly (because really hasn't it died out) Occupy Movement as a template for disenfranchised supers.There are some plusses to this book. It is not overly poltical, but in keying off of the Occupy Movement some of the story has lost its forward thrust as has the movement (an aside as an Oakland resident I am not a fan of what Occupy cost a lot of people in the city). Simone does not define the characters as sharply as she usually does, but I personally liked the little surprise we, as readers, get about Tremor. The hinted at larger story could be interesting, as in the privatization of city services, but in the era of writing for trade that idea is not sufficiently defined in this installment.And, except for one character, points for introducing some new people int he DC Universe. So far it has been mostly re-treads so I want to acknowledge editorial and Simone for taking the non-tradtional route of the Big Two just constantly keep hauling re-boots of old characters (and sometimes not very good re-boots).In summation some good ideas, execution and story not quite solid enough. In many ways it is easy to see why in today's market it got canceled. less

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