The Rise and Fall of Axiom

Mark Waid has tackled this sort of story before, most recently in "Irredeemable" which was an amazing series. This is a shorter story, and while it has some similar beats, its a completely different beast. Where that series focuses on former allies of the "Hero gone Mad" trying to find a way to stop him, this is about humanity and it's fight against not an evil or mad hero, but someone who has suffered loss and yet still sees the best in humanity and actually unnerved that we can't see it ourselves. This is the crux of the series and it's far and away what makes the book stand out. Waid not only builds up a great hero, but a great, and emotional fall from grace, and because you still feel for Axiom, the finale is just as tense as you kind of just want everyone to settle down and just talk it out, but of course that doesn't happen. Hoping Legendary makes a sequel as it's totally set up for one!

Axiom is the story everyone knows...what if a superhero of near unlimited power turned on mankind...aka what if Superman went bad? The story is fair, but there is very little surprising or unique to this story beyond other comic book lines. Plus, the story itself is very short...it almost seems abridged. You might feel short changed compared to other graohic novels. On a positive note, the art work is very good. The story had potential but failed to deliver. Overall, I wouldn't recommend it.

Story is a good one but that language of the characters was forced and unnatural. Meaning they spoke comic book characters engaged in exposition

Great book, great service.

Arrived on time and in excellent condition. A fantastic story from the writer of Irredeemable and Kingdom Come.

Mark Waid’s definitely written better. I personally think he’s a good writer (not great) who’s been overhyped for too long. Axiom exposes a bit of the dialing-it-in side of a comic legend. The dialogue is contrived. The narrator is off balance, giving way too much exposition, and causing the dialogue to have the effect of serving as comic-y filler for dunces.By the end of the book there’s just nobody to like or side with. You know who the good guys are, but there’s never a time where you grow to like them. And while Axiom clearly needs to be defeated, being supreme a-holes seemed like a weird tactic; especially when the tone switched from panel to panel. I just didn’t care what happened in the end. I was waiting for some kind of moment that drove it all home or gave the previous 130 pages some meaning, but it just ended. It seemed like someone thought there was a deep message in the story, but if so, I think it was too deep to be unearthed.The only thing positive about this was that Ed Benes did the art and he is amazing. Unfortunately this is probably some of the worst work I’ve seen him do, since some pages you can clearly tell where they didn’t bother with any inking and it’s just comic coloring over Benes’ unfinished pencils. It’s extra awkward because one page will seem complete and look fantastic, and then the next page seems completely unfinished. It’s too bad, because Benes is one of the best, but they must have been on quite a tight schedule or something.I can’t recommend anyone to read this book. It just felt more like a pitch for a Netflix deal that hadn’t been fully fleshed out, than like a meaningful comic story. There’s definitely better ones out there.

as a fan of Mark Waie, his writing his solid in this graphic novel. Basically a superman analogue story like many others and it’s done well. Axiom and his wife come to Earth as it’s protectors. However what starts with one trade guy starts a series of events that leads to Axiom’s fall from grace and the government tries to decipher how he and his powers tick so they and effect him. Even when Axiom decides to call himself a god and give his commandment, the story does still shows him as not gone too far as many fo these stories does and like the mainstream superman it shows him as loving humanity and he did genuinely tried to help them. Not a thought provoking masterpiece or many surprises but it does work well. As much as people love the true heroic superman, exploring him through expies are fun. If you like these kind fo stories like the injustice video game and it’s prequel comic and mark waid’s other take on this idea irredeemable then I do recommend this book.

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