You know how you can tell a bad movie when the credits play at the start and under the writing credits you see dozens of names? Same rule applies to comics, particularly Head Wounds: Sparrow - look at this mess that’s on the cover: Oscar Isaac Presents, Created by Robert Johnson, Developed by Oscar Isaac and Jason Spire, Story by Robert Johnson and John Alvey, Written by Brian Buccellato.
The other red flag on the cover is Art by Christian Ward, because this artist never picks good projects to illustrate. Whether it’s Matt Fraction’s ODY-C, G. Willow Wilson’s Invisible Kingdom or Saladin Ahmed’s Black Bolt, they are uniformly garbage - and that rule proves true here too!
(Still another rule could be not to bother with any comics that Hollywood celebrities have dabbled with - call it the BRZRKR effect.)
Too many cooks then and it shows because this book was completely incomprehensible. Oscar Isaac is a New Orleans cop who’s having an affair with his partner’s wife. It’s an election year which is important for no reason. He gets a head wound and starts seeing dead people. There’s a kidnapping. Bikers, truckers, satanists, and then some angels and demons and it’s over. No idea what happened or why - the whole thing was garbled gibberish from start to finish. Why the subtitle “Sparrow”? Good question! Dunno because it’s never explained.
Considering Oscar Isaac’s name and likeness is splattered all over the cover, you’d think the artist would make an effort to ensure the only selling point of this comic is emphasised throughout but the only times the character Isaac is meant to be actually looks like the actor is on the cover and the first time he appears in the comic. After that, like everyone else, he resembles a blotchy, blobby humanoid. So you can’t even tell it’s meant to be a story featuring Oscar Isaac, it just looks like a generic dude. Good job, Christian Ward!
An incompetent, incoherent, boring and unmemorable dumpster fire of a story, Head Wounds: Sparrow is easily one of the worst comics of the year. You’d need a head wound to enjoy this rubbish.
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