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The Legend Of Luther Strode (2013)

by Tradd Moore(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1607067730 (ISBN13: 9781607067733)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Image Comics

series

Luther Strode

review 1: Like I said in the review I wrote for Strange Talent, the Luther Strode trilogy is one of my favorite creator-owned comics, if not one of my favorite comics period. Legend picks up several years after the events of the first volume. Luther is an adult now, a terrifying legend that stocks the streets at night. He collects the IDs of the criminals he kills, and lives in complete solitude. However, the organization is still hunting him, and they have a few tricks up their sleeve. Luther and Petra are reunited after years, but both of them have changed: Petra is a gunslinger now, and Luther is much, much darker and more prone to violence and murder than he was before. Petra is now his moral compass and in many ways, their roles in the relationship they have have flipped comple... moretely. Legend is much darker than the first volume. The brutality of the violence is cranked up several notches, and in the years that have passed since we last saw Luther, he's become a shadow of the boy he once was, on the verge of tipping over the edge and becoming a monster. He also faces off against Jack the Ripper, who is a truly terrifying, unsettling villain in the story. While Luther kills through a misguided moral compass, Jack kills for the fun of it. Tradd Moore's art style became slicker over the year that passed between the first volume and this one, and in fact continues to become even more slick and stylized as time goes on. Justin Jordan still pens a brutal story that draws the line between comical ultra-violence and disturbing violence perfectly. If you enjoyed the first volume, you'll definitely enjoy this one as well, significantly darker tone and all. And, come the beginning of 2015, we'll finally have The Legacy of Luther Strode to bring this brilliant trilogy to a close.
review 2: I'm constantly fascinated by creator-owned books these days that have such simple premises but haven't been touched on before now. The likes of Kick-Ass and Luther Strode seem so unbelievably simple an yet feel so wildly original. What would happen if one of those ads in a comic book turned out to be the real deal... and more? This is what Luther Strode finds out when he begins to master The Way. And who hasn't dreamed of something like this happening to them after reading comic books for their entire adolescence? In that regard, the book books me on an emotional and nostalgic level, speaking to me in the same silly language of my daydreams in my youth. Hell, I still daydream about much the same. But where the first book felt powerful and commanding, this one feels weak and anemic. This sequel to the hugely entertaining and popular first series "The Strange Talent" is a little worse for wear than that first installment. It's years later and we find the hero acting in a Punisher-like capacity. It's a gruesome series full of fight scenes and broken bones, blood and gore, but lacks any emotional depth or human interest. There is no sympathy or empathy here, nothing for us to feel. Justin Jordan should understand that that is what is essential to this type of story's success. The human element. Luther isn't the Punisher, and we aren't rooting for him in that regard- hellbent on avenging a dead family. He's no longer a wimpy teen misfit, either. So what do we care? Why should we care? The answer is that we don't. Don't get me wrong, the book is fun as hell. It's a raw, action-packed summer blockbuster. It just lacks finesse, lacks heart, and that's what keeps it from becoming a classic, a five star monster of a book. Even the love interest isn't interesting. Doesn't even seem interested in itself, really. Nor is it loving. So what we get is flat and two-dimensional, and that's just fine to while away an hour or two soaking in all the mayhem. But if Jordan ever wants to grow the actual legend, he's going to have to come up with a better hook, a better shtick. Tradd Moore on art remains perfect here, fitting the style of the art to the story amazingly. Simple lines, highly stylistic and cartoonish, it isn't all hatching and stuff upper body poses. The lines are fluid and slick and just what the book calls for with its action scenes and gore-fueled madness. Writing: C+Art: A less

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