tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post7656133356989562520..comments2024-03-29T00:20:03.012+13:00Comments on The Tearoom of Despair: Dogged: The strange second life of Johnny AlphaBob Temukahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09181473725170489213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5394310461939093453.post-21903926355371259572014-06-16T23:05:03.400+12:002014-06-16T23:05:03.400+12:00The great thing about John Wagner is that he's...The great thing about John Wagner is that he's still experimenting with story structure and confounding expectations after all these years. Part of what I liked about Day of Chaos, (but some of my friends didn't) was the odd structure when he didn't even bother showing much of the horrors of Chaos day itself. There were glimpses of that in the last Johnny Alpha story and it was genuinely disconcerting to see Alpha turn to brutal wartime tactics but it didn't really seem to go anywhere and just seemed to peter out without addressing any of the more interesting issues raised. You kind of got the idea he'd had a really good idea for the story and then midway through decided he couldn't really be bothered to tell it. Hopefully there will be another chapter explaining this but I found it all a bit unsatisfying. Having said that, I'm still very excited about the upcoming new Wagner Ezquerra Dredd epicTamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09025289184864042978noreply@blogger.com