Lux (Amazon) and the Invisible Kingdom (the Catholic church) are both corrupt. A none (aka a nun - see how gosh durned imaginative G. Willow Wilson is?!) and a spaceship captained by a lesbian Han Solo are gonna tell everyone about how evil they is - that’ll show ‘em!
Wow. G. Willow Wilson went from writing the best book at Marvel to the kind of terrible sci-fi book I’d expect to see Image cranking out. Invisible Kingdom is so baaaad!
This is the laziest type of sci-fi where it’s basically our world but with generic spaceships whooshing around and every character has different coloured skin (purple, green, etc.) to show they’re ALIENS. They’ve got similar culture, values, it’s a capitalist society with religion and traditional families and different sexualities - it’s just so unimaginative.
It wouldn’t be so bad if the story was even halfway entertaining but it’s not even close. Two random characters find themselves together under contrived circumstances and pose zero threat to the establishment but they’re somehow hunted as if what they say to others could somehow crumble the entire power structure. It’s such childish storytelling.
The ending even underlines how pointless it all was - I mean, everyone knows how bad Amazon treats its workers but we all still use it; everyone knows what the Catholic church has done, and likely continues to do, to children in its care, and there are still millions upon millions of Catholics! Duh - plenty of people don’t shiv a git about the truth. This isn’t a profound revelation.
The book’s full of generic pew-pew spaceship laser fights, the characters are ridiculous - the Lux Jeff Bezos dude with the Maker/current Professor X helmet in particular is about as one-dimensional a villain as you can get - and at no point was I the least bit entertained by anything that was happening. It’s dumber than dumb sci-fi and somehow still managed to win Eisners this year (it’s got lesbians in it - give them a trophy)! Ugh.
The occasional splash page of an exterior shot of the spaceship was eye-catching with dramatic bursts of colour. Otherwise I wasn’t at all taken with Christian Ward’s goopy, too busy artwork and uninspired visuals that matched Wilson’s recycled sci-fi script to a T.
Boring, stupid, uncreative, both in the writing and the art - walk quickly past Invisible Kingdom, Volume 1: Walking the Path and don’t stop!
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