Category: Reality Check
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Brunswick and Bogdanovic manage to tie up Reality Check reasonably well. I went into this issue thinking it was a five issue series, not four, so when things started wrapping up about halfway through… well, it was a little confusing. Especially since Brunswick brings in this whole relationship between the comic book hero and villain…
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Reality Check is no longer funny. Brunswick is instead going for depressing. Only Bogdanovic doesn’t change his style at all, so the comic keeps looking like it could be funny–except maybe the green zombies–but it’s never funny again. It just gets more and more depressing. There’s a lot about the protagonist’s bad family life, both…
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I have a hard time… respecting Reality Check. This issue reveals the Batman stand-in is just sexually frustrated and that frustration is why he’s broken out of the comic book world into the real world. In other words, Brunswick isn’t going for high brow. He’s not going for lots of laughs either. He’s trying to…
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Reality Check is a strange one, simply because it’s so mired in not just comic fandom–complete with the protagonist recounting dressing up as Batman and Robin as a kid–but also the comics industry. The protagonist has grown up to become an aspiring comic book creator. The first issue involves him finally hitting it big. He’s…
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