PLEASE NOTE THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAINS SPOILERS
Written by: Adam McGovern
Art by: Paolo Leandri
Publisher: Image
I went into Nightworld Issue 4 with the lowest expectations I could possibly have, yet the comic still managed to be a huge disappointment. Somewhere, in the deep recesses of depression and pretentious introspection, an achievement was unlocked. Ten points were well earned tonight. Awesome.
Issue 3 ended with the angry girl capturing the grandpa character and taking him to some castle, and it’s here that Issue 4 begins. Hot Spot, P (no, I refuse to look up the proper spelling of his stupid name), and the daughter (don’t care to look up her name either (as if it matters)), meet up outside it to lay a battle plan. P vomits out a non sequitur that winds up being true, and then proceeds to spend five frustrating pages on his backstory.
Because you know, before a climactic battle I want five pages of exposition.
The worst part of it all is that his backstory is obvious to anyone who has paid even a small amount of attention to the story, and it’s cliché to boot. Really? It’s your fault your wife is a walking vegetable? No way!
You know what’s the worst part about this whole thing though? There’s not even a climactic battle. Our characters find their macguffin and it does some [let’s do a] time warp [again]* thing, and in the span of three pages, everyone has learned a little something about himself. This destroys the macguffin just as the devil badguy boss-man shows up. Said devil badguy boss-man shrugs, says “Don’t you bother me again or I’ll hurt you for sure” and goes away.
The actual ending is half a page of waxing poetic on the philosophy of endings, which is ironic since Nightworld Issue 4 delivers a terrible one.
I am honestly baffled at how awful this whole thing has been.
*Terrible movie
