Young Liars #4
First off, let me tell you where I'm coming from with my reviews. This way you have something to base your reading of my reviews on.
I collect a gambit of comic genres; Marvel and DC mainstream stuff, Marvel's Icon, DC's Vertigo (my favorite overall), DC's Wildstorm, Image including Top Cow, IDW, Devil's Due, Zenescope, Dark Horse and several other Indys.
Here are examples of what I enjoy and think are really well done comics and would give high appraise: 'Y the Last Man, Walking Dead, 30 days of Night (first mini), Scalped, DMZ, Conan, Red Sonja, Mice Templar, Fell, Vinyl Underground, Captain America, Iron Fist, Ultimate Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Proof, Grimm Fairy Tales, Star Wars: Legacy, Witchblade, The Magdalena (my favorite character of all time), Pax Romana, Sojourn, Batman. There are more, but this should give you some idea of what I'm looking for in my comics.
One reviewer's opinion will not be the same as the next, thus I've provided you with the types of reading I like and enjoy. That is what I base my reviews on. If you read the above information and do not enjoy the same things as I, then my reviews will be garbage to you. So reviews, in my opinion are all relative to the reviewer's and the reader's taste.
Second, my reviews will be the culmination of stars between 1 and 5 (5 being the best) averaged over the subjects listed below.
Now, here we go...
Title: Young Liars #4
Cover: So, so. Giant transvestite gracing the cover of this issue. **
Interior Art: Nice. If not for the pretty decent art which is really detailed this series would be in the canceled bin 2 issues ago. ****
Story dialogue: The entire time I was reading this issue I was thinking, "what the hell is going on?". It bounces around from 6 hours ago, to 8 hours ago, to whatever. I didn't understand any of the continuity in this issue. It doesn't help that the character creation is not that good either. I'm not able to look at a person in this series and identify them yet and it's issue #4 already. Well maybe Sadie and Donnie (the huge transvestite). The rest of the characters including the main male character of which I can't even remember his name and I just read the thing, are speaking in random ballons all over the place. Thinking about it now, this is probably pretty realistic compared to real life conversations, but damn, it makes for hard reading. *
Letters and page Layout: *****
Emotions invoked: Disturbed. Frustrated. Confused. Surprised. *
Rate: 2.6/5