Ford, Richard -- Kultus
This is the strain of "sociopathically brutal hero" SF/F that gives
the entire genre a bad name. Thaddeus Blaklok is a thug with a heart
of thug. That's his whole characterization. He beats people up, people
beat him up. Later on, the beatings continue. It's basically a comic
book -- not an actual comic book, but the stereotypical Bad Comic
Book where the only tension is "will Batman win this fight?" (Answer:
yes, and he also pulls a new superpower out of his shorts just for
this issue.)
Also, the writing hits my personal trifecta of annoyances: dropped
commas, "he was so much more than that", and palmed narrative. (That's
where the narrator picks up something important but doesn't tell us
what it is for three chapters.)
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