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"Dynasty" with superheroes. Well written and the art is good, just not really my thing.
There are soap operas and there are super hero's. What he have here is a super hero soap opera and I love it. It is funny and twisted and shows the horrible parts of the human condition and pulls no punches. There is very little to like in these people apart from Liz who seems to be the only person not wearing her head as a hat.
This book was a random find at the library - I was looking for another graphic novel to read, since I have a lot more longer books sitting on my list right now. The title and the cover looked interesting so I figured, "Why not?"This is the first book in the comic series, Noble Causes, a comic that is a cross between superhero comics and a daytime soap opera. The Noble family is one of superheroes, alien sorceresses, hyper-intelligent men... and marrying into this is a completely ordinary book se...
I picked this book up recently based on the new series by Jay Faerber, Dynamo Five. I was not disappointed. This book is excellent. The main stories are slightly shorter at 15 pages, but he includes a backup stories that fill in the history of the Noble family. If you like things that explore interpersonal relationships in the context of the superhero, this book is tailor made for you. Cannot recommend it enough.
The original pitch for this book was that as superhero books have so much soap opera, why not focus on the soap stuff and leave the heroics in the background? The Noble family are legends and media stars whose super-fast son Race has just married an ordinary woman, Liz. Then he's murdered on their honeymoon, leaving his widow in the middle of this feuding, conflicted clan.It's competent and enjoyable but the story's frankly not that different from what I could have found in a volume of X-Men aro...
First volume was a bit underwhelming, partly because things happen too fast to characters we really don't know anything about. I think it was a mistake to kill off Race so quickly--better to develop him for a few more issues, develop the Noble family infighting, etc., so that when he does get killed, it carries some weight and we have a better understanding of the implications, etc., that come along with it. The idea isn't bad, though it does read a bit like an inferior version of Astro City, in...
Ok comic, not amazing but not bad either. I really liked the colors and some of the more serious characters. I just hope that Noble Causes will continue getting better and not worse.
I read Dynamo 5 first which led me to this... It much more soap opera here. I can't believe how far Patrick Gleason's art has grown since this. Things happen too fast here which is the real reason for the backup stories.... To fill in the story. Hope Farber relaxes with the next volume.
Maybe it's the influence of the character Race Noble, but everything in this series seems to happen at super speed. That's a bit of a problem when it gets in the way of telling the story, or of letting the reader absorb it. The idea of having shorter individual chapters, with backup stories by different artists, was interesting, but in this case it felt like the stories were 20+-pagers being squeezed into 15 pages. A better structure might have been to slow down and tell each story over two issu...
Action-packed superhero soap opera comic! Girl next door type marries into family of superheroes; in-fighting, death rays, infidelity, and evil robots ensue.
