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Stephen Colbert's Tek Jansen: Invasion Of The Optiklons (2009)

by John Layman(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1934964166 (ISBN13: 9781934964163)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Oni Press

review 1: This shouldn't be a factor in any way, but just saying, I'm a big fan of Stephen Colbert. The Colbert Report is really funny, he was really funny in Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Strangers w/candy, even the Love Guru, etc.Also, this book sucked. It just wasn't very funny. There are some basic tangents, like how Tek is brazenly against the rules and pro-gung ho and blowing stuff up, and he mentions some times that he likes the ladies, but the lack of comedic premises and details is odd. It's like some menace from outer space wants to kill Tek or gets in his way, ALL CHARACTERS ARE BRUSHED PAST very quickly, and onto the next issue. Even Tek has a fairly bland personality. He goes against orders and follows them, but he gets there pretty directly and unmemorably.The art is flat. ... moreAnd this may not bug most people, but it was kind of gross in times. The main bad guys have multiple eyeballs on their heads, at one point Tek rips the face off a teacher. It would be one thing if there was a clear plot flow or cultural/standpoint, but gross imagery mixed with plodding one-noted unsophisticated waiting around is kind of lame.I wish they took the attitude of the "Colbert Report" shorts, where clear satirical formatting moves and sci-fi cliches from shows like "Star Trek" took over. Here it's like Tek is realistically going through the motions of being a super-successful space military spy guy.I blame the indie writers and their attempt to build a rational Tek Jansen universe, wherein he somehow has to function as a normal BLAND person.This book is disappointing to say the least. 1/5
review 2: I wanted to like this, but I just couldn't get through it. It just isn't all that amusing. It effectively transplants Colbert's hyper-egotistical personality into a sci-fi setting, but that is where the parallels end. Colbert's humor goes beyond that egoism, but the writers of these comics didn't seem to understand that, so everything just felt like a mediocre sci-fi adventure with an unlikable hero. less

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