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on becoming a monster / 2006
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comic book
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pencils and inks
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publisher: dwap productions
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review
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Next up is On Becoming A Monster by Wilson and with art by Chris Sagovac. Heavy on inks, the story has an apocalyptic and gothic feel to it and very dark subject matter to it. Angels and demons have been using humans as pawns and cannon fodder in a war with each other for ages with no clear victor. As the armies of darkness and light meet on the battlefield, the leader of the dark army, a figure known only as Padre Juan, searches for the leaders of each side, an angel and a demon. Before the battle has ended Padre Juan will urge his vampiric follows to make converts of their enemies and rise up with him because they no longer have to choose darkness or light, they now have their own side!
This was the best-written story of the book. It shows the most promise and actually gives us an intriguing character in Padre Juan. The idea of humans being caught in the middle of heavenly war is usually entertaining and in this case it's no exception. Are the vampires and Padre Juan actually the good guys, or are they just another group of evil set to enslave humanity? That is just one of the many questions I walked away wanting to know the answer to. Sagovac's art was heavy and dark and I thought it was a good match for the story. His work is a bit rough in some spots but I really liked it and thought it aided the story well.
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thecomicsreview.com
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This seems to be a metaphor of the eternal battle between good and evil. Not much more to it. Or am I missing something? The inclusion of an earlier draft of the story near the end of the book with totally different images begs a mystery.
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comiccritique.com
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This story I think is about a vampire army waging war on heaven and hell. And this I only gathered from the last page of the book, which showed and explained a storyboard from issue 1 of the book that will evidently precede this story. Had it not been for that I wouldn't have had any indication of the opposing army being vampires at all.
The art here is very stylistic, but sometimes too stylistic. In certain panels it was so hard to figure out what was happening I just read the text and went on. Other panels were very bare, but there were panels that looked really good in the style with the solid blacks and images of white illuminated within. Those gave it the dark and sinister feel it should have.
The lettering is better here with some interesting stylizing choices that fit the angel and demon characters well. The writing again is choppy and confusing in some places, but the banter between the angel and demon is handled very well. Overall it's still a confusing introduction to this story though.
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comicavalanche.com
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“On Becoming a Monster” is the second story and was written by Dale Wilson with artwork from Chris Sagovac. This story is set around a battle between good and evil, where the main characters, a demon and an angel, discuss why they are at war. Sagovac’s art is a black and white style that is very dark and unappealing. The dark colors are too much and very distracting. Also, the reader is thrown into the middle of a story with no background information.
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erasingclouds.com
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