Black Orchid, Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
Mar. 22nd, 2016 03:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookfrogSometimes I miss the days when I would have just felt vaguely unsatisfied with this book, shrugged, and moved on. Understanding why I don't like it does not make it easier to deal with.
Can we start with the fawning introduction by some guy I never heard of? It is especially impressed at how the book BEGINS with the death of a female superhero. How unexpected, et cetera.
So, yes. A woman is captured by the evil, and shot in the head. Beautiful.
Somehow the hero's death wakes up her.. sister? Something. She's a plant. She doesn't have a name.
Things happen AROUND this nameless woman. These things are done by men. Always men. She doesn't do much of anything.
The art's nice, though.
I'm just tired.
Can we start with the fawning introduction by some guy I never heard of? It is especially impressed at how the book BEGINS with the death of a female superhero. How unexpected, et cetera.
So, yes. A woman is captured by the evil, and shot in the head. Beautiful.
Somehow the hero's death wakes up her.. sister? Something. She's a plant. She doesn't have a name.
Things happen AROUND this nameless woman. These things are done by men. Always men. She doesn't do much of anything.
The art's nice, though.
I'm just tired.
