Matt Wilson (2)

Mothering Invention brings the series closer to its complicated endgame, explaining much of the series's backstory and incorporating a variety of plot twists. Quite frankly, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie are often too clever for their own good. One issues, for example, is entirely made of up six-panel pages, where each panel is ninety years after the previous, showing Ananke killing some member of the Pantheon, from 3862 B.C. to 2014 A. D. Is anyone really reading this issue panel by panel? Seems doubtful. In another, there are ten pages of all-black nine-panel grids, showing how a character is dead for all ninety years between Pantheons! Okay, I guess they are playing with the conventions of what comics can do... but shouldn't it also be interesting to actually read? As always, my ability to invest in the plot is dampened by the fact that I feel like I ought to care about the characters more than I actually do.… (mehr)

As much as I want to like this series because of its use of mythology and glorious artwork, the meandering storyline makes me want to call it quits. Too many of the characters have gone haywire (to little point it seems), and they're only now announcing some of the major behind the scenes players (and not in a particularly believable way). I can't buy into Minerva secretly being Ananke re-incarnated, because it just seems like a cheap backpedal from their decision to kill Ananke off. The whole point seemed to be discovering what would happent o the gods after their handler/murderer got taken out, but now it's all abut some apparent darkness coming to claim them all (cliche) and some offbeat scientific experiments by Minerva and the father masquerading as Odin. The only real redeeming quality in this series is the artwork for me at this point, and unfortunately that's not enough to keep me coming back.… (mehr)