The Stop Button

I thought Boom! was a real publisher now and didn’t do unofficial knockoffs of movies. Hit is a comic book “mockbuster” of Gangster Squad. Not sure why it’s coming out so long after the movie did, especially since the movie was a bomb.

It’s a terrible comic book. If I tried really hard, I think I could come up with some okay things to say about artist Vanesa R. Del Rey. At first glance, her art appears to be Edward Hopper-esque, but it doesn’t hold up sequentially. Particularly not when she’s doing dark scenes and there are a lot of them.

As for writer Bryce Carlson… well, if Hit rips off Gangster Squad and that movie rips off James Ellroy… Carlson certainly didn’t go back to Ellroy for actual writing tips. Awful dialogue and lame characterizations. It’s simply dreadful.

I’m shocked and dismayed Boom!’s still publishing stuff like Hit.

CREDITS

Writer, Bryce Carlson; artist, Vanesa R. Del Rey; colorist, Archie Van Buren; letterer, Ed Dukeshire; editor, Eric Harburn; publisher, Boom! Studios.