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Pilot Season Genius #1
Pilot Season: Genius #1 (W) Marc Bernardin, Adam Freeman (A)Afua Richardson (COV) Afua…
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Pilot Season Genius
- Publisher:
- Top Cow
- Latest Release Date:
- June 25, 2008
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This was just offensive, both to me personally and my sense of community. Not sure how you get away with titling something “Genius” in which the premise is let’s go murder a bunch of cops. I’m not opposed to fictional violence (my favorite current book is Punisher). But, violence should at least have a reasonable and defensible objective. The idea that a bunch of crack crews are somehow the heroes that are going to liberate a neighborhood and improve it is just crap. I have yet to see anyone’s life improved by crack (or meth, or heroin, etc). And the scum that populate gangs are not going to suddenly wake up and start doing missionary work and urban revitalization. Making the police (everyday coppers, not some specific foucsed group) the villains just doesn’t get any traction. You have to be completely detached from any kind of reality of urban life to swallow this.
0 pts.
This was just offensive, both to me personally and my sense of community. Not sure how you get away with titling something “Genius” in which the premise is let’s go murder a bunch of cops. I’m not opposed to fictional violence (my favorite current book is Punisher). But, violence should at least have a reasonable and defensible objective. The idea that a bunch of crack crews are somehow the heroes that are going to liberate a neighborhood and improve it is just crap. I have yet to see anyone’s life improved by crack (or meth, or heroin, etc). And the scum that populate gangs are not going to suddenly wake up and start doing missionary work and urban revitalization. Making the police (everyday coppers, not some specific foucsed group) the villains just doesn’t get any traction. You have to be completely detached from any kind of reality of urban life to swallow this.
0 pts.
I disagree with this review because I find it shortsighted and not really understanding what the title is about. No one ever said that crack helps a neighborhood. No one ever said the reader has to root for these gang members to kill cops. And the premise is far from “lets go murder a bunch of cops.” No one ever said that these gang members are going to start “doing missionary work and urban revitalization.”
If you had actually read the book instead of just reading the description you’d realize that the story is told from both sides, the gang leader and from the detective making neither side the villain. Duh.
2 pts.
I disagree with this review because I find it shortsighted and not really understanding what the title is about. No one ever said that crack helps a neighborhood. No one ever said the reader has to root for these gang members to kill cops. And the premise is far from “lets go murder a bunch of cops.” No one ever said that these gang members are going to start “doing missionary work and urban revitalization.”
If you had actually read the book instead of just reading the description you’d realize that the story is told from both sides, the gang leader and from the detective making neither side the villain. Duh.