- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics; 1 edition (Sep 19 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401215521
- ISBN-13: 978-1401215521
- Product Dimensions: 16.9 x 0.6 x 25.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #446,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1.0 out of 5 stars
How did this comic get made?,
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This review is from: Doctor 13: Architecture and Morality (Paperback)
This is quite simply one of the most useless and annoying comic tpbs that I've read in the last year. The pitch sounds ok: the ultimate critic is thrown into some kind of strange situation with a bunch of wacky characters, throw in some smart writing, a little tongue and cheek humor and maybe an interesting mystery = a interesting quirky little title. UNFORTUNATELY the writing is awful for Brian Azerello, the jokes are incredibly lame, and the characters are so made of 2 dimensional cardboard. It's like the characters we're somehow cut out of a weird idea sketchbook (which I am assuming this case is the cloth of DC silly ideas past). At no point do you feel you understand any of their motivations or temperments. Dr. 13 just goes around yelling at everything and pretending he doesn't blieve in what is going on around him. The host of 'quirky' characters are fleshed out in an incredibly cheesy way, right down to changing the words to represent an accent (a tactic that makes for an extremely annyoing read). And the plot, while it could be said to make sense, is completely uncompelling and uniteresting. My big question for this book is HOW THE HELL DID THIS GET MADE!? Why was their no editor at the top to demand a better product?
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4.8 out of 5 stars (8 customer reviews) 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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A great read for fans of the kitsch,
By J. Woodworth "Comic Book Supernerd Extraordin... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Doctor 13: Architecture and Morality (Paperback)
I honestly don't know what to think about Brian Azzarello. He does great gritty crimework on 100 Bullets. And then he has a lot of short, dark works. Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, Banner, Batman: City of Crime and Superman: for Tomorrow (the last two I'd consider REAL disappointments).And then there's this... I'd consider this an unofficial sequal to Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers of Victory maxiseries, as well as the two major DC Crises. If you don't have knowledge of those and aren't a fan of third and fourth string DC heroes, villains and gobbeldygook getting their time to shine in the spotlight, then this series isn't going to do much for you. However, if you do like this sort of stuff, this book has it in spades; it's weird and it's great and it's grand. Also, if you crave more Seven Unknown Men of Slaughter Swamp/The DC Architects weirdness, give this book a flip. I definitely came into this book with little to no expectation, just hoping the story would be as good as the art (by the way, Chiang, the artist, is BRILLIANT). And I was blown away. But, don't take my word for it! 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Trippy Entertainment,
By David Keith "FurNTats" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Doctor 13: Architecture and Morality (Paperback)
This here collect the Doctor 13 back up stories that appeared in the most recent Spectre mini series. This is a very fun collection with great artwork that tackles and gives new life to some old minor DC characters. It's a trippy adventure tale laced with bits of humor that I enjoyed very much. I'd love to see this creative team do another Doctor 13 series.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This is why I read comics!,
By Gene Ha - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Doctor 13: Architecture and Morality (Paperback)
First off, the art by Cliff Chiang is perfect. Dynamic, clear, and solidly drawn. Most importantly, it's fun.That defines the whole book. It is fun. But despite the camp and the silliness (gay ghost pirates fighting the editorial gods to exist) Brian Azzarello creates deep and well drawn characters. One really comes to care about them and their tragedies by the end of the series. I dare guess that none of these characters has been this well written before. Specifically, Dr Thirteen has a long history with various brilliant Vertigo writers, and I never gave a damn about him (sorry, Neil Gaiman). Now I do. Unique talents creating a uniquely brilliant book. |
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