The Question’s Never Far from the Answer | Thoughts on The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1
The Multiversity: Pax Americana #1 (DC) – There’s good Grant Morrison (The Multiversity #1 and The Multiversity: The Just #1). And there’s bad Grant Morrison (The Multiversity: Society of Superheroes #1and this issue), where he drops you in the middle of a story without a parachute and you bang your head and find yourself a little disoriented and wondering what the hell is going. That was my reading experience this time again with the multi-universal event (the ratio is now 2:2). I’ve seen a lot of chatter online and in the comic book media that lauds this issue as a Watchmenredux. I know it’s been a while since I read Watchmen (although I’ve seen the too-faithful movie adaptation in recent years), but I didn’t feel it was all that “Watchmen-like.” Perhaps an homage, sure, but a “retelling” or “reimagining”, I just didn’t get that feeling. Were it not for Frank Quitely’s herculean effort on the art, I don’t know that I would have read as far as I did. After nearly 30 pages, I was rather bored …