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| Uber: Invasion by fabio 02/09/2017, 11:03pm PST | ||||
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| You know how Deathnote started as a cat and mouse game involving god like powers but ran under a few constrained rules that the tension drew from? It's a lone kid with godlike death powers who doesn't know the identity of the detective hunting him vs a brilliant detective having to find a needle in a haystack with his secret identity as his only defense. TENSION!
Then remember how all that was pissed away at the halfway point when the author just kept pulling more rules out of his ass whenever he wrote himself into a corner? Any possible tension was quickly stamped out when yet another "wait the magic notebook can also do THIS" moment came about until you stopped caring and just waited for it to end. Uber ran the same course. Germany was devastated in the final months of WWII when suddenly they get magic Akira super soldiers that can decimate conventional forces but have their limits. It's Germany with super powers but no conventional forces or industry against the Allies with little to no super powers but massive conventional forces as they try to close the gap. TENSION! But then it's just more and more magic rule changes. "Germany can't possibly win, it's just a matter of how much of the world they destroy" is stated countless times. Then...Germany just wins easily because B.S. workarounds to any plot obstacles are pulled out of asses. Worse, the sudden win is ridiculously abridged. You had so many filler issues of redundant expository dialog or pointless backstory, then when the decisive battle suddenly happens it barely takes up half an issue, and half of the battle is confined to a single tiny panel summary! It takes a direct hit of a bazooka or tank shell to kill a super soldier, so conventional or naval artillery is mostly useless against fast moving human sized targets. But then the Germans win by setting up massive observation towers so the super soldiers can shoot line of sight energy blasts at far away targets. Why conventional artillery is useless against giant stationary structures is just ignored. You just get a single panel of "the British navy tried to attack the tower at Calais and failed lol" as if naval guns couldn't hit a stationary target from over a dozen miles away. It was obvious that this started out meaning to be a limited 1-2 year run, but like The Walking Dead they realized there was more money in dragging it out with no resolution. Then strangely the surprise ending hit suddenly and nothing for 2 years. An announcement then came that they had a kickstarter going to continue it...with the same publisher??? Uhhh...kay. Maybe it would get back on track and cut the filler and magic outs? I gave the first 2 issues a shot. #1- Truman looking at a map and watching a film reel. Dotted lights showing distant explosions in Boston. #2- An entire issue of this 
That's it. Nothing else happens all issue. Just melted people on newsreel. oh well |
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Uber (Avatar Press makes a good comic?) by 01/22/2015, 5:30pm PST  Seems like an odd choice for a man associated with hand-wringing about messages NT by 01/22/2015, 8:01pm PST Uber: Invasion by 02/09/2017, 11:03pm PST Fuck it just read the whole thing online by 03/12/2017, 5:22pm PDT |
