gmanfromheck's Dean Koontz's Nevermore #1 review

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    A Comic That Sort of Feels Like a Movie

    What happens when a scientist is willing to travel infinite Earths to find his true love? You know it can't end well.


    The Good 

    It's been a while since I've read one but I really enjoyed Dean Koontz's novels. He creates characters and settings that serve to take you away and provide reading entertainment. With Nevermore, you have a brilliant mind willing to go to drastic means to be reunited with his lost love. Obviously things can't go smoothly and easily or there wouldn't be much of a story. When I first heard about the idea, I didn't think there'd would be much to the story. The execution does work well here. Even knowing or thinking you know where the story's going to go, there are some twists that hook you in. Often stories of this nature are filled with cheesy dialogue but the way the characters speak to each other has a natural flow.

    I had only seen the (nice) cover by Darick Robertson and was concerned about the interior art. Leno Carvalho does a good job in visualizing a different world and there are several pages filled with bits of detail that could have been overlooked to complete the issue faster. It's always nice to see when artists don't try taking the easy way through a comic and deliver tiny details in the background as seen here.

    The Bad 

    As with some Dean Koontz novels I've read before, you sometimes get a feeling you know where things are going to go. There's a slight feeling that it might have an almost formulaic ending. The first issue of this series gives that indication but because this is only the first issue, there's plenty of ways this can end. While you know the story (in the first issue) won't end easily for the characters, if you don't read the issue solicit, you might not be able to predict what the actual hook of the story is. 

    While the art was really good in most parts, there were a couple scenes where the characters and background felt a little generic (like when they first arrive in the other world).

    The Verdict 

    I've enjoyed Dean Koontz stories in the past but wasn't sure I'd ever read a comic based on his work. The story here feels a tiny bit cliche at the beginning the but twists involved manage to add new light to what you think will happen in the story. The concept of the story feels like it could be made into a movie or TV show (perhaps on the SyFy channel) and when you think you have it figured out, the twist at the end will hook you in and you'll want to see what happens next. Often stories of this nature are filled with cheesy or forced dialogue but the characters talk to each other in a natural way. The art, while has a couple moments where the environment or characters feel a little generic, excels in other areas and I was happy to see tiny bits of details in the background of other panels. The concept of infinite worlds has been done before but the way it's done here has me curious to see how the story will end.


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