7 Psychopaths #1 and A God Somewhere reviews @ Pop Syndicate


What does it say that our fictional heroes who once were Telly Savalas, Clint Eastwood and John Wayne have become true killers in stories or, worse yet, inept fools like Brad Pitt’s Lt. Aldo Raine in Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds, another war story on the same wavelength as 7 Psychopaths? World War II wasn’t broadcast 24 hours a day on the cable news networks until the ratings began to drop. They didn’t watch the bombs fall or the roadside bombs explode the same way that we do today. Our perceptions of war have changed so that we don’t have heroes anymore in our war stories, whether they are stories about Iraq, Afghanistan, the Gulf or even going back to Germany and Japan in the 1940s. I honestly don’t know if war is fundamentally different now than it was back then but our stories about war have become cynical and we don’t have war heroes anymore. Vehlmann’s story is another cynical and modern take applied to an old war that had heroes.
Click here to read the full review.A God Somewhere by John Arcudi & Peter Snejbjerg
Arcudi and Snejbjerg may want “power” and “responsibility” to go hand in hand, like some great old Marvel comic book but the story they tell is about the corruption and the transformation of a good man to a bad man. Eric, maybe rightly, believes that he has his powers because he’s become a god with no relationship anymore to the mankind which he once was part of. He looks human but nothing about him is remotely human. Morality is defined by God and since he’s a god now, morality must be defined by him. Arcudi and Snejbjerg take all of our benevolent power-fantasy trips and show us just how wrong they can be. They pick up on distrust of super power that first showed its head around the time of Watchmen, Miracleman and The Brat Pack but strip out the bright costumes and colorful names. Like Alan Moore and Rick Veitch did 25 years ago, Arcudi and Snejbjerg toss out the romanticism and instead show us the worst of humanity and power.
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A God Somewhere is available on Amazon.com.