Scarlett’s a super-duper-mega agent who does swishy martial arts guns swords stuff. She has to infiltrate a Japanese terrorist ninja group - where her bestie/girlfriend/housemate/who knows Jinx is undercover for some reason - to stop Shinobi-wannabe get a glowy sword for some reason. If you have two brain cells to rub together, this one’s not for you. But Vin Diesel fans? Welcome - the drool bucket is in your minder’s lap!
Kelly “Never Written a Good Comic In Her Career” Thompson gives us the worst book in the Energon Universe so far with Scarlett. Have you ever read a book or seen a movie or watched a show where a female character beats everyone up effortlessly? This is that. Thompson’s even written some terrible Black Widow comics for Marvel, and Scarlett is just a shittier version of that character! This is just more of that rubbish.
The story is always vague, generic and uninteresting, and feels completely superfluous to the overall Energon saga, probably because it is. Clumsy, incompetent writing coupled with uninspired art, the feeble narrative staggers from one idiotic set piece to another until it mercifully ends. I was forgetting the book as I was reading it - it’s that thoroughly boring. What was the point of it all? To get fans to buy more Energon Universe stuff.
Utterly pointless nonsense, Scarlett, Volume 1: Speshul Mishin (emphasis on the spesh) is the most easily skippable comic you’ll ever come across. If you can imagine a Black Widow cosplayer sword-fighting a ninja while something explodes in the background, you’ve basically already read this book - there’s really nothing else to it.
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