Goku Black and Zamas, the evil Lord of Lords, want to kill everyone and everything because Silly Bad Guy Motivation – Goku and Vegeta gotta team up and stop ‘em!
Yeah… Dragon Ball Super is unfortunately still turrible. Black and Zamas aren’t very compelling protagonists – their aims are too generic, they’re predictably unstoppable (until they’re not), and their powers are meh. Their designs are uninspired too.
The story is no great shakes: Goodies vs Baddies for the fate of the world – very bland. The plotting ranges from formulaic – endless fighting – to contrived – Goku’s running out of senzu beans; luckily Future Trunks suddenly has healing powahs!
Akira Toriyama continues to play to fans’ nostalgia HARD so a number of classic Dragon Ball touchstones are here: the Lord of Lords, Future Trunks, the potara earrings, senzu beans, the mafu-ba, even Vegerot makes an appearance. There’s some sorta-new aspects like Super Saiyan God (red) and Super Saiyan Blue but it’s literally just Super Saiyan with a different colour!? Le sigh.
Some of the fighting isn’t bad – Zamas’ use of portals against Goku was imaginative - Dragon Ball still does fight scenes better than any other comic. And there was an amusing moment with the Turtle Master and the talisman seal. Toyotarou’s art remains excellent too and near-indiscernible from Toriyama’s.
Doesn’t add up to much though, eh? The new stuff is dull, the old stuff is equally so in repetition (unless you’re a mindless fanboy), and the series continues to be shrug-worthy. Dragon Ball Super, Volume 4: Hope is hopelessly boring.
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