Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Steve Pugh
Penciller: Timothy Green II (pages 8, 9, 14, 15, 19, 20)
Inker: Joel Silver (pages 8, 9, 14, 15, 19, 20)
The Solicitation
• It’s the story you’ve been waiting for: “ROTWORLD: THE RED KINGDOM”!
• Part one of a four-part epic in which the Earth has fallen to the Rot!
• Guest-starring Justice League Dark, Beast Boy and many other heroes and villains from the DC Universe!
Preview
Why I Bought It
Rotworld is finally here! This has been building and building and building and now I'm ready for it to be set!
What I Liked
I'm sorta at a loss of words. The art was split up in this issue, with one artist focusing on the Rotworld and the other focused on the "past" or current timeline, or whatever you want to call it. It was a smart way of dividing up the art so that the feel of each story had its own sense of self.
What I Didn't Like
This is just a little more disappointing than what I wanted to see from this book. With all the build up over the past year form the comic and it leads to an alternate take/look at the future kind of story that will just be undone later on? Seems just kind of predictable in a way I wasn't thinking would happen.
Swamp Thing matched the same feel for me with this issue, it just focused on the Green side of things. Here we are traversing through a world that is full of alternate takes to characters that have been around for a year. Hell, some of the characters I don't recognize or follow.
Trust me, the changes to Animal Man and the story I've been following has been great, but I was just hoping for a little more payoff than this. This Rotworld story seems to be a very generic story. My hope is that I'm wrong on this assumption, and I really do mean that. I'm really hoping we get just one artist and focus on getting this story to something better than a generic level for the character. So many tremendous and entertaining things have happened previously to this that I hope it amounts to something more.
Panel to Remember
There isn't one panel so much as a common thing I saw from certain characters. Take a small moment to reflect on the book and notice the protrusions of the canine teeth for characters. Rather interesting quirk, isn't it?
Quotable
"The bloody rot has already won!" - From John Constantine. Who we predictably know, will be proven very, very wrong.
Grades
Words: 6/10
Pictures: 7/10
Buy Next Issue: Eh. I don't know. Maybe?
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