And Marcelo Maiolo’s colours are spot on. Diogenes Neves’ panel layout is pretty funky – not quite as majestic as Batwoman’s, but enough to enjoy looking at it. I don’t think I really noticed it until a further read through for this review. I might be interested more if this guy had the whole comic to himself, kicking ass and making quips, but I don’t think that’s what we’re going to see going forward.Īgain, similar to Linsay’s views, the artwork is pretty good.
He’s so bad ass, he’s cheating on himself with old Xanadu. It’s not until near the end we get another glimpse at the bad ass again. I was immediately drawn to this character after his first piece of dialogue – what’s not to like about a sarcastic and dry witted demon – however I was quickly disappointed as he’s merged with a human, who then takes center stage for most of the issue. One of the only things I did like was the character of Etrigan – the demon, not the man. Sadly though, there wasn’t much that caught my attention here. I think I knew going into it that it wasn’t for me, however after Paul’s sucess with Stormwatch the week before, I had high hopes that I would be wrong and come away with yet another book for my pull list. Linsay – I have to agree with Linsay, I wasn’t hugely keen on this book either. The art is good but somewhat cliched and let down by bad story direction.
This should be a great book, dark magic, warriors, sorcerers, Shining Knight, Camelot, Madame Xanadu but its actually just a jumbled up rammy which I have struggled to follow. Not sure how this works if she is palling it about with Constantine in JL Dark but hey ho. What I think this comic is about is the Demon Etrigan being sealed inside the body of a young man with unusual hair and who goes out with Madame Xanadu.
I’m over my jetlag too, so it was definitely the comic. I have now read this comic 3 times and still find it complicated, unwieldy with dialogue so bland I almost fell asleep. At first I groaned when I heard his name as I do not enjoy Doctor Who and thought he was just in there as a name to bring his fans over to DC but I absolutely loved Stormwatch – both the writing and the art were top notch and so I hoped we’d be on to something here with Demon Knights. Paul Cornell has worked a bit of magic here in the DCnew52. Filed under: Comic Reviews, DC Comics | Tags: DCNew52, DemonKnights, DiogenesNeves, MarceloMaiolo, PaulCornell
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