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Friday 17 January 2020

Damage, Volume 1: Out of Control Review (Robert Venditti, Tony Daniel)


Damage is DC’s poor man’s version of Hulk. The only difference is that he can just hulk out for an hour every 24 hours and the person he is when he’s not Damage has less personality than a brick. There’s no story either, just a series of characters lining up to hit and get hit by Damage: Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy and Gorilla Grodd. Anyone looking for anything – literally anything resembling something worth reading – would be better off reading a takeaway menu instead. Y’know, something with a little more depth.

Tony Daniel’s design of Damage is so ugly. Damage keeps saying he wants to be a hero – and this is being advertised as part of “The New Age of Heroes”, whatever that means – but he looks like Doomsday’s little brother and he spends an inordinate amount of time punching Wonder Woman, one of the most famous superheroes ever. Hmm.

Utter drek – the only thing out of control was my sense of flabbergast that something so rubbish got published in the first place. What was anyone involved in this thinking??

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