1.0 out of 5 stars
Easily one of the worst comic books I've ever read, February 1, 2012
Do you love reading books that are badly written, badly drawn, have no convincing dialogue or characters, and present everything in a half-baked fashion? Do you like wasting your free time reading trite and worthless books? Look no further because Matt "Can't Write, Can't Draw" Kindt has written just the book for you - "Revolver".
The book is about a guy who lives in two different worlds, one which is much like ours and the other where the world has gone to hell. Every day at 11.11pm he makes the switch.
There's no attempt to explain why this man has this sudden power, except for a pathetic coda which if that really was how it happened then this is officially the stupidest comic book ever written. For some strange reason the survivors in the damaged world put all of their effort into writing a dull newsletter to drop on people in a plane called "Revolver". Why or how they thought this would make an impact doesn't matter because it doesn't and is a total dud as a plot device.
Kindt's attempt at dialogue is painful to read. If you try and read this mess, wait until the scene with the war veteran and see how utterly lacking Kindt's ability to convey drama, emotion, or cohesion is when trying to construct a semblance of the character's humanity that would make him seem real. But he has this problem with all of his characters. The girlfriend of the man is a two dimensional material girl who spends her time reading catalogues and furnishing her home. The man is against this because materialism is bad. Watch how he becomes increasingly angered by the material nature of some humans in the 21st century - it's bad! He gets so mad he knocks over her coffee table!
But the main character, I forget his name, is by far the worst of the bunch. To call him a character is laughable, he has none. He's an office drone and a malcontent who does nothing to change his life until he is forced to do so. Then he assumes non-ideas as his new outlook on life - possessions possess you man, we all need to live in the moment. And he's so unlikeable, I just wanted him to die and the book to end.
The art is just plain horrible. His drawing style is so unpleasant and awkward to look at, that even when you look closely at the page it still looks like you're peering through swamp water at an image.
The sci-fi angle of switching between parallel worlds has been done to death, and the way the book is written, the way the characters are written, shows no originality of concept or execution. How anyone at Vertigo thought this was a book that deserved to be published is astonishing. Matt Kindt, you are the least interesting writer/artist in comics (somehow) working today and "Revolver" is a comic book that I urge anyone thinking of purchasing, to avoid like the turd on the pavement it is.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Really enjoyable story and art, November 10, 2010
This review is from: Revolver (Hardcover)
Really good story. I enjoyed it. The protagonist's feelings about his job and outlook on life definitely hit home with me. The story did end abruptly I thought and that's why i gave it only 4 stars. Definitely worth $16.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A look at two sides of the same dream..., October 26, 2010
This review is from: Revolver (Hardcover)
Revolver will not change your life outlook by the impact of its story. The art here is well-described by
others as stark and spidery sketches - the subdued tones of the colorist help to ground the reader in
each reality and set the tone for a man struggling with understanding and accepting that he's caught
between two realities and disposable in both.
The story of revolver shines a light on the everyday of so many of us as his struggles in the alternate
reality mark the futility and failure of his life is in his own waking world. Like I said initially, this story
won't open smoothly nor wrap up cleanly for readers. What it will do, if viewed as a slice of time in our
protagonist's ongoing life, is act as a thought provoking look at life and what we are doing with it.
Revolver doesn't function as an open and shut story we're familiar with and may turn some readers off
this way, but for many it will shine on the merit of the introspection it can usher along.
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