Who can confront Leviathan?
The different secret organizations of the world have been absorbed by the biggest terrorist organization ever created and now only a select group of heroes can try to stop it before is too late.
Ugh, yet another Brian Bendis book.
Yes, I know I should give people the benefit of the doubt and who knows? Maybe Bendis could eventually surprise me with an actual interesting and different story.
That's not happening here since this is more of the same.
As you might know at this point, this is the sequel to Bendis' Event Leviathan (and maybe other titles because Bendis has this weird fixation on making all of his books share the same ongoing plot that nobody else likes) with Checkmate being formed to stop the organization that Mark Shaw (Formerly Manhunter) created. The problems are evident almost immediately with the always lovely "Bendis talk" that is just a predictable back and forth conversation that tries to pass as something natural when is all the contrary.
Even worse is the characterization though. Let's say that Bendis handles people like Lois Lane fine enough but others like Damian Wayne get a laughable portrayal that almost sound like parodies of themselves while the rest of the promoted cast barely even get a line, I don't even know why Bendis wanted to include these heroes if he wasn't even going to properly depict them.
And that's the plot! Yeah, is basically a set-up for events that are about to come and not even an interesting set-up at it. The issue quickly stops before it even tries to trick you that things are going to get more interesting. Decompression, your name is Brian Bendis.
Alex Maleev's artwork is pretty solid in its semi-realistic style although a bit stiff in its storytelling and expressions.
This doesn't give me a lot of confidence frankly and future installments most likely won't make me change my opinion.
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