This reviewer seems ok with the book.
https://www.cbr.com/jackpot-1-review...checking%20out.
This reviewer seems ok with the book.
https://www.cbr.com/jackpot-1-review...checking%20out.
Everyone is allowed exceptions to the rule, especially a late review that is tepid at best considering the source is usually much more enthusiastic.
The aggregate score on League of Comic Geeks is 2.4/5 from 185 users.
It has an aggregate score of 5.5/10 from critics on Comicbook Round Up and 3.8/10 from users.
The funny thing? The "anti-woke" crowd hates this book: https://youtu.be/kMpiLI3zeWY?si=1R_5dA0xjL3bjtBD
But the other side hates it, too: https://youtu.be/XDZsJQO--jk?si=RaP0t7UJT6mGNpgy
Last edited by TinkerSpider; 02-06-2024 at 05:44 PM.
“I always figured if I were a superhero, there’s no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager."
— Stan Lee
Yeah and later they wrote this passive-agressive article how it's not actually good:
https://www.cbr.com/mary-jane-natura...ackpot-is-not/
This is all about going with the flow and getting clicks.
Absolutely no article that contains the sentences:
“Or rather, it would be an ingenious trap if Mary Jane's terrible acting hadn't clued the villain in before she could fall for it. While this misstep isn't any great surprise considering how new Mary Jane is to the world of superheroics”
can be considered “spot on” in any known universe. Those sentences shows an appalling lack of baseline understanding of the character of Mary Jane, and demonstrate zero knowledge of the character’s history, much less knowledge of the last time MJ and Francine Frye met before this story. Just like the comic itself.
Last edited by TinkerSpider; 02-06-2024 at 07:48 PM.
“I always figured if I were a superhero, there’s no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager."
— Stan Lee
And readers are free to call out bad writing, writing out of character and writing out of continuity. That’s precisely the reaction Jackpot is receiving. See the scores in a post above. Watch the video reviews.
If one doesn’t appreciate the conventions of serial storytelling, then IMO one should not be writing mainstream superhero comic books. :shrug
Nothing is stopping them from writing their own original stories, either. Just saying. No one is forced to work in a serial continuity.
Last edited by TinkerSpider; 02-06-2024 at 08:25 PM.
“I always figured if I were a superhero, there’s no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager."
— Stan Lee