Grifter #8

durakken's Grifter #8 - ...Must Come Down review

Self Destructed.

So, there i was reading this story and it was average to above average, catching up on one of the titles that I decided to keep reading and had not even considered dropping it then I got to this issue and it's garbage. There is a shock beginning for no good reason. Most of the issue is fighting and it's meant to have Cole be all conflicted, but the whole thing doesn't jive with what his character has been doing, saying, and thinking up to this point and it is only meant to establish Cole as another Deathstroke type figure in this new direction of Dull Comics which is unneeded because his character was established in the last several issues.

I had no intention of writing another review, but then I read this issue and it was just so bad that I had to post a review of just how bad it is. I am dropping this title because of this issue. I was getting attached to the story I was reading and the writer just threw everything about that story out and pretty much rebooted the series.

Just to clarify. This book, by itself is not horrendous. It is the fact that this book followed 7 other issues and while it's recoverable I don't care to wait around for them to recover and I do not take kindly to writers introducing and killing off characters and rearranging personalities when they are trying build an audience, which requires you to get attached to the story and the characters which this issues has completely removed.

Other reviews for Grifter #8 - ...Must Come Down

Since I learned 0
Grifter #8 - ...Must Come Down by razzatazz on April 18, 2012
This series which has been edgy and generally leans that way, has also generally never really escaped from the realm of average.  One of the things which I think gave it  better sense of itself was the presence of Gretchen in Cole's life.  Another and one which is visible here is the use of the "Fight through it, I know you are in there" speech to a former ally now being controlled by someone else.  There are some decent and well planned and well executed action sequences here, but they end up b...
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.

American Brothers in Paris 0
Grifter #8 - ...Must Come Down by the_mighty_monarch on April 12, 2012
Blah. This cover's probably the weakest one yet. Grifter and his brother both look ridiculously over masculine. Their muscles are bulging to the point that they should be bursting from their veins. Apparently the covers are already prepared for Liefeld to swoop in and ruin them, easing us into it. Grifter's been more creative and charismatic; not some macho macho muscle head.This issue could've been great. It made me start worrying again about the new creative team, because its clear that this i...
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.