Well, good for Mark Millar selling the IP rights of his Millarworld comics to Netflix for a whopping £25mil! Even if you weren’t aware of that, all the Netflix ads plastering his comics should’ve clued you in that he’s in bed with the online streaming service. Not that the price reflects a particularly high quality to his comics – they remain gussied-up storyboards to be adapted into movies/TV shows. Quantity over quality to get him his millions – har har SUCKERS!
In fact his latest with artist Matteo Scalera, Space Bandits, is especially derivative of Netflix: it’s basically Orange is the New Black – in spaaaaaace! With added Stranger Things-esque ‘80s nostalgia. Woohoo...
The ringleader of a bandit crew is backstabbed by said crew; the other main character, an escape/con artist, is backstabbed by her boyfriend. The pair’s space crimes land them in space jail where they gotta space escape!
Isn’t everyone sick of ‘80s nostalgia at this point? It doesn’t even serve a purpose here. Getting the escape/con artist chick into space jail was enormously contrived: she’s been able to escape every scenario she’s been in and her boyfriend’s been the getaway driver. I get that he didn’t show up for the pickup but she could’ve still escaped and, given how capably she’s written, found another space car to jam away in.
Space Bandits #1 wasn’t interesting at all. The concept is flat and unexciting, the characters are basically ciphers and what happens in this first issue is simply tedious. Another Netflix series I won’t be watching whenever it crops up…
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