The Phantom: Law of the Jungle # 0 - The Phantom: Law of the Jungle
is an issue published by Moonstone that was released on 1 / / 2006Plot Summary
Every society has its laws: some written, some unwritten... for some are forbidden to be even spoken aloud. These are the laws that get passed on from one generation to the next. The penalty for breaking these laws is often swift and uncompromising. Combine the lack of this knowledge with the unhinged mind of a deadly assassin who is calling out the Phantom, and you get nothing but fire.
Bang the drum for Eisner Award nominee Paul Guinan's painted art, which has an eerie cinematic quality that ignites a wanton rhythm that spreads throughout the night of the Bangallan jungle like wildfire. You want to see the Phantom in a different light? You want to see him the way others see him in his world? This is your one chance. If the law allows.
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The Phantom: Law of the Jungle
Ugh!
I really love the Phantom character and basically he is the reason I still read comics.
I really wanted to really like Law of the Jungle but I could not.
I thought interesting this 'wide-vision' concept Moonstone comics is trying out.
Do you like the way I have been writing so far?
I don't.
The Phantom, Law of the Jungle is written page after page in the first person. Now, I like first person writing. Heck, I am a huge Lovecraft fan... but this was utterly awful. If you are going to write in the first person, your sentence structure must be creative. You cannot start every bloody sentence with 'I'. I hate this, I did that, I thought that, it was so repetitive and drab.
Joe Gentile is apparently the writer of this one and he's the editor of most of Moonstone's Phantom comics. I really think he should have known a bit more about being a little more creative with his writing. This writing felt like something I would have written in grade nine after I would have gotten beat up, or lost a girlfriend... maybe the Marilyn Manson EMO crowd could be impressed by this, but I found it so very amateur.
The story drones on and on with the point of view of some guy in military fatigues who is out to kill the Phantom as revenge for killing his dad. Is this what the suicide notes are like for all these junior high school kids in the U. S. that go to school, kill everyone and then themselves? Not to make light on such a tragedy, but it feels like Mr. Gentile used that as the inspiration for this graphic novel. Take a grade nine-ish level personal letter, change the scene to the Bangalla jungle and viola! You have this... Law of the Jungle.
I've loved Moonstone's stuff... all of it that I have tried out, until this. Sure some of the Phantom stories are average, some are Phantastic! Law of the Jungle is not.
Please do not pick this one up if you are just being introduced to The Phantom. There is so much better out there.
