W FND T N TH FRST BK THT B (THT’S KN RVS’ “CHRCTR”) WS BRN F LGHTNNG BLT BT, RTHR THN CCPT THT HS DD WS LTRL FLSH N TH PN, H DCDS T FND T F TH LGHTNNG BLT CM FRM SMN - SMTHNG? - LS. THT SMS T B TH STRY F TH TTRLY BRNG ND FRGTTBL SCND VLM F THS BRNLSS CTNR: STP FR FTR STRYLN THT’S NT NTRSTNG T BGN WTH.
S TH NVLTY F KN RVS “WRTNG” CMC (BY THT F CRS MN H WRT N ML T MTT KNDT - WRTR WH HS NVR WRTTN GD CMC ND HS NVRTHLSS WRTTN PLNTY F THM - TLLLNG HM T WRT THS SRS) FTRNG HS LKNSS N TH MN CHRCTR HS LRDY WRN FF.
THS SCND VLM FTRS LT F WTLSS BLTHR, FLSHBCKS PLNTY, ND GR BY TH BCKTLD, LL F WHCH MNTS T LTTL DVLPMNT F WHT W SW N TH FRST BK, WHCH WS FLSHBCKS PLNTY ND GR BY TH BCKTLD WTH B MRMRNG SMTHNG BT WNTNG T D ND/R FNDNG T HS RGNS ND PRPS FR BNG.
GD T’S BRNG. VN F Y WR FN F TH MNDLSS VR-TH-TP VLNC F TH FRST BK, LL B LT DWN S THR’S FR LSS N THS BK ND LT F T FLS RCYCLD - DDN’T H CTCH MSSL ND LB T BCK N TH FRST VLM? T FLS LK H DD VN F H DDN’T.
SMHW MTT KDNT HS MNGD T TK TH CNCPT F KN CSPLYNG S VLNT SPRMN ND RNDRD T YWNTSTC WTHN JST TW BKS. Berserker, VLM 2 S garbage.
(Non-shouting-through-clenched-teeth-vowels-included translation below:)
We found out in the first book that B (that’s Keanu Reeves’ “character”) was born of a lightning bolt but, rather than accept that his dad was a literal flash in the pan, he decides to find out if the lightning bolt came from someone - something? - else. That seems to be the story of the utterly boring and forgettable second volume of this brainless actioner: setup for a future storyline that’s not interesting to begin with.
So the novelty of Keanu Reeves “writing” a comic (by that of course I mean he wrote an email to Matt Kindt - a writer who has never written a good comic and has nevertheless written plenty of them - telling him to write this series) featuring his likeness in the main character has already worn off.
This second volume features a lot of witless blather, flashbacks aplenty, and gore by the bucketload, all of which amounts to little development of what we saw in the first book, which was flashbacks aplenty and gore by the bucketload with B murmuring something about wanting to die and/or finding out his origins and purpose for being.
God it’s boring. Even if you were a fan of the mindless over-the-top violence of the first book, you’ll be let down as there’s far less in this book and a lot of it feels recycled - didn’t he catch a missile and lob it back in the first volume? It feels like he did even if he didn’t.
Somehow Matt Kindt has managed to take the concept of Keanu cosplaying as a violent Superman and rendered it yawntastic within just two books. BRZRKR, Volume 2 is GRBGE.
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