[review] [ZUM!] Hercule Presente Wreckshow

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Hercule Presente Wreckshow
Review by Pete Doreé

To start with, Hercule is an extremely good cartoonist. He's 
developed his own reality, peopled by surreal, ugly but visually 
compelling characters that, thanks to his expert line work, just leap 
off the page.
Unfortunately, he's nowhere near as good a writer. None of the strips 
here really work convincingly, and some aren't really strips at all, 
more stream of consciousness pages of unconnected panels. Worse; too 
much of this book is filler, with pages of spoof articles that just 
aren't funny enough to engage.
But there are instances when Hercule's weird style works: The 50's 
style letters page, the 'official signals', the rappers telling us 
the revolution has already been televised (while you were watching 
Eastenders). This is all good stuff, but there just ain't enough of 
it.
I wanted to like this, as I really do like the art, but 
unfortunately, it just doesn't have enough focus.

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