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A review by katharine_opal
The Ministry of Compliance, Vol. 1 by John Ridley
3.0
3.5
I wanted to like this much more, but I ended up only being okay with it. From the plot blurb, I was expecting something similar to the video game Control or The Commission from the Umbrella Academy. While The Ministry of Compliance does manage to get some of the elements of interesting strangeness from those series, it falls a bit flat for me. This story is VERY exposition-heavy. There is some action, but it's very vague and usually a single page worth. I did enjoy the aesthetics of The Ministries, and the character's designs. But this story focuses too much on telling and not enough on showing. Also, this is a tiny nitpick, but I really dislike the pages that are nothing but extreme close-ups of characters' faces during big exposition dumps. I like the ideas this story puts forward, but I'm meh on its execution.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!
I wanted to like this much more, but I ended up only being okay with it. From the plot blurb, I was expecting something similar to the video game Control or The Commission from the Umbrella Academy. While The Ministry of Compliance does manage to get some of the elements of interesting strangeness from those series, it falls a bit flat for me. This story is VERY exposition-heavy. There is some action, but it's very vague and usually a single page worth. I did enjoy the aesthetics of The Ministries, and the character's designs. But this story focuses too much on telling and not enough on showing. Also, this is a tiny nitpick, but I really dislike the pages that are nothing but extreme close-ups of characters' faces during big exposition dumps. I like the ideas this story puts forward, but I'm meh on its execution.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!