Simon Dark
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Comic Summary: Written by Steve Niles Art and cover by Scott Hampton Gotham City has another guardian, a protector known only in whispers and children's jump rope songs - and he's not afraid to get his hands bloody! Meet Simon Dark, the mysterious creature of the night who's the star of a new ongoing series by the creative team behind the acclaimed GOTHAM COUNTY LINE - writer Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and artist Scott Hampton (BATMAN: NIGHT CRIES)!
Codes: 76194125189900111 AUG070230
- Price:
$2.99$2.39- Artist:
- Scott Hampton
- Author:
- Steve Niles
- Cover Artist:
- Scott Hampton
- Release Date:
- October 10, 2007
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- Not currently available
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Colouring:
- FC
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Customer Reviews
You know the smell.
You may not realize it, and you may not recognize it, but you know it. You sniff it out when you hit the comic shop and a new number one is on the stands.
It's the stench of a go-nowhere, hopeless series, one that will last two years on the outside, if they're lucky. There will be shameless ploys for sales in the form of random crossovers, guest stars, and event tie-in issues. None of the gambits will work. The title is doomed.
Simon Dark has that smell, although I could be wrong. After all, I really thought Blue Beetle wouldn't make it past issue 24...wait, it hasn't gotten there yet? well, then I guess it still may not, sad as it is, since that's a good title.
Simon Dark...eh, not so good. This has textbook formula written all over it--it's like the Crow meets Batman, sorta, with a supporting cast ripped straight from your average TV procedural. Speaking of Batman, it actually takes place on his home turf, in Gotham City, which creates a whole extra level of gratuitousness, if that's even a word, which I guess it is now, since it's on the internet, and everything on the internet is right.
Is there room in Gotham City for a boring supernatural crimefighter? Not really. But we've got one, so bully for us, I suppose. This title would be far better served by a non-Gotham setting, but then it wouldn't be nesting right in the black heart of the DC universe, and fanboys would greet it with a disinterested snort. Or it would actually have to survive on (gasp!) its storytelling, instead of its tenuous connection to the rest of the multiverse. Shocking, that.
You may not realize it, and you may not recognize it, but you know it. You sniff it out when you hit the comic shop and a new number one is on the stands.
It's the stench of a go-nowhere, hopeless series, one that will last two years on the outside, if they're lucky. There will be shameless ploys for sales in the form of random crossovers, guest stars, and event tie-in issues. None of the gambits will work. The title is doomed.
Simon Dark has that smell, although I could be wrong. After all, I really thought Blue Beetle wouldn't make it past issue 24...wait, it hasn't gotten there yet? well, then I guess it still may not, sad as it is, since that's a good title.
Simon Dark...eh, not so good. This has textbook formula written all over it--it's like the Crow meets Batman, sorta, with a supporting cast ripped straight from your average TV procedural. Speaking of Batman, it actually takes place on his home turf, in Gotham City, which creates a whole extra level of gratuitousness, if that's even a word, which I guess it is now, since it's on the internet, and everything on the internet is right.
Is there room in Gotham City for a boring supernatural crimefighter? Not really. But we've got one, so bully for us, I suppose. This title would be far better served by a non-Gotham setting, but then it wouldn't be nesting right in the black heart of the DC universe, and fanboys would greet it with a disinterested snort. Or it would actually have to survive on (gasp!) its storytelling, instead of its tenuous connection to the rest of the multiverse. Shocking, that.
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