9/13/2023 0 Comments Radiant black issue 2![]() There’s also too many characters in this series considering how we’ve barely begun the story. I didn’t really get what that whole sequence in the Tron-like world of the giant Radiant was about - it felt like a neon-coloured therapy session more than anything - or how it turned things around for Nathan. Kyle Higgins keeps throwing in references to COWL, his terrible Image series from 2014 (you haven’t heard of it for a reason), and the world at large seems to have oddly quite easily accepted the existence of colourful superheroes. Like all of the characters in the book, Marshall isn’t particularly likeable. He’s also weirdly concerned with being liked by the world at large and spends a lot of time trying to make people fans of Radiant Black, as well as make money off it. Marshall’s just not an interesting character to spend time with. ![]() With Nathan in a coma for most of this volume, that aspect is completely missing in the book and the focus instead is on his dreary friend Marshall who lives a completely empty existence where he’s either at Nathan’s bedside at the hospital or failing at his retail job. One of the aspects of the first book that I found appealing was Nathan struggling to figure out how to become a successful writer. The first couple issues are just one long dumb superhero punch-up as the sub-Power Rangers throw colourful lights at one another pointlessly until they don’t - I couldn’t have been more bored. No part of this book’s story was at all compelling or fun to read. The second volume of Radiant Black is a very disappointing follow-up to the decent first book. With Nathan out of action, it’s down to his bestie Marshall to take up the mantle of Radiant Black and battle the mysterious glitchy Radiant, with the help of the other coloured Radiants he’s recently met, and find a way of saving Nathan’s life.
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