It’s never a good sign when you pick up the second book of a series and you don’t remember a damn thing that happened in the first book! So it goes with Middlewest, Book Two, which plain stank.
The weather god kid ruins the carnival he’s tagging along with when he weather-hulks out, then goes looking for his ma. I thought she was dead but she apparently left him to his abusive dad - so how good a mother could she be? Weather god dad is chasing after weather god son for no reason - he hates his son so why would he go looking for him!? Weather god granddad flips on a dime from being nice to being shitty for no reason.
The story is just terrible and the writing is so unremarkable it’s no wonder I forgot the first book and will likewise do the same for the second even more quickly. Jorge Corona’s art is pretty cool throughout - very Miyazaki-esque visuals - in particular the splash page of the enormous talking animal god Nokoyuna. Jean-Francois Beaulieu’s colours are similarly rocking. Still, I found myself wishing I was seeing Skottie Young’s art instead of his increasingly bad writing.
Middlewest, Book Two is the comics version of a badly thought-out and conceived, unmemorable kid’s cartoon.
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