From the pages of Swamp Thing... The Official Un-Men thread...

[Themanofbat]

Well, the Un-Men #1 came out last week, and not even a whimper on these boards.

I guess all the old Wein/Wrightson Swamp Thing fans have left the coop.

Anyway, I got the first issue, and I'm planning on reading it this week. If anyone else has (all three of you), please share your thoughts and discuss in this thread.

 

[Darthphere]

I liked it. It's really a cool concept. Murder mystery with the whole freak town twist.

 

[Themanofbat]

Here's a brief review from Newsarama...

The Un-Men #1 (Vertigo): Whalen and Hawthorne have delivered a pretty interesting first issue, spinning an old Swamp Thing series concept out into its own ongoing. A reservation full of freaks (both in the carnival sense and in the created in an Anton Arcane petri dish sense) that feels like a throwback to pre-1950s America, in some of the ways the brazen corruption is portrayed. Our protagonist seems a bit like an unassuming G-man…the Elliot Ness to Aberrance’s Chicago underworld. It takes a freak show reservation and plays it as almost straight crime noir. It builds a bit slowly, true to that style, which has the unfortunate side effect of not having had the chance to sell me on the series as much in the first issue as it might have with a little more crammed into the issue. Of course, then it just wouldn’t be the same story. For apparently holding true to artistic desires, I’ll give this intriguing tale at least one more issue to sink its hooks into me completely.

 

[Prognosticator]

So you liked it?

 

[Themanofbat]

I just read it... not bad, not ball busting good, but good Vertigo concept.

I liked the flow of the tale, as well as the introduction of characters.
I was waiting for an Arcane reference, maybe in a few issues...
And the art was typical Vertigo.

It was good enough for me to keep buying it.

 

[Themanofbat]

Anybody read #2 yet???