Seeing as how Cornell’s pacing of the comic is so obvious–he tries and fails to make it feel like a big action movie–it’s boring. The only compelling element is the appearance of the personification of the city of Gotham.
Guess what?
It’s a Bat-man.
But Cornell tries all these jokes and then the rousing action scene with Apollo saving the world… and none of Stormwatch works. For a while, I wondered if it was getting better because I could follow the action scenes.
Then I realized, no, it’s no better. I’m a little more used to it, but it’s still pretty bad.
Miguel Sepulveda’s art should be fine, but Cornell’s script includes so much dumb, non-visual material, Sepulveda stumbles. Cornell has Speulveda draw giant monsters from the human perspective; these things are too big to be scary or even threatening.
Stormwatch needs to check its scale.
