A review by amber_lea84
The Faust Act by Kieron Gillen

2.0

This is making fun of millennials, right? Right?!

I get the feeling that things are going over my head, but are they? I kind of suspect they're not, I think I'm just confused because the story telling is meant to confuse. Because that creates intrigue, I guess? I worry what is really happening is lazy writing where the reader is being left to project whatever they want onto a story that isn't actually there. Because in reading other people's reviews I'm like, "How did you get THAT from THIS?"

The art is definitely impressive, but that alone is not enough to make me care. I actually feel like this comic has something and it's completely fucking it up. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I just don't get it yet, and the story will fill in all the blanks it has in it right now. Maybe it's a story that goes from bad to brilliant if you just give it a chance. Maybe.

The fact that I'm pretty sure it's making fun of millennial does make the 5 star reviews pretty great. Like people giving it five stars literally just because it's pretty. Or for it having diversity. Yeah, it's shallow af and innocent people get murdered but yaaaaay, representation. I finally get to see myself as the literal devil. #progress

Seriously though, one star for the art and one star for Lucifer being a badass.