The Stop Button

I didn’t think Blood could get worse.

I thought Mann had established the bottom and was comfortable lurking around it. I was very, very wrong.

He breaks with the franchise’s “reality” so abruptly at the end, I wish I’d read Blood first, so I could have either enjoyed other Adventure Apes comics more or just not read them all together. If I were an Apes movie fan and I read this garbage at the time, I’m not sure what I would have done. Maybe sent monkey poop to the Adventure offices.

But Mann doesn’t just have moronic plot developments, he’s got some terrible writing habits as well.

For example, this issue he doesn’t narrate from any character, just an omniscient third person. But this omniscient third person sometimes over-acknowledges the reader, sometimes under-acknowledges. There’s no balance.

Blood is a terrible series with an even worse finish. It’s dreadful.