Doctor Dremo

    (DC Conspiracy, 2006)
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This digest comic looks as if it’s photocopied; artists take turns every four pages or so. Some are good; some are bad. Doctor Dremo is some sort of psychedelic super-hero battling villains that wish to control the universe. It’s an interesting experiment but a little too rough around the edges, leaping from one concept to the next with little rhyme or reason.

The problem with collaborative projects like this (usually) is that it’s difficult for the talent to work together. Partly, it’s a matter of ego. If you get stuck drawing and scripting the part of the story in which, say, Doctor Dremo goes to a bar, you probably aren’t going to be thrilled to work on it. Young talent will usually pick up the baton of that challenge and attempt to turn it into something. However, in a story, you naturally have highs and lows. In a collaborative project like this, what you end up with is little more than competing highs. And a “low” that’s meant to be a low is one thing, but a “high” that becomes a low only because the other pieces are high, well, that’s not going to come out right.

The cover price is too high for this untested work, but there is raw energy here that’s undeniable. If you can find it at a discount, check it out.

–Tony DiGerolamo
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