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Threshold: The Hunted

de Keith Giffen, Scott Kolins (Il·lustrador), Tom Raney (Il·lustrador), Phil Winslade (Il·lustrador)

Altres autors: Andrei Bressan (Il·lustrador), Timothy Green II (Il·lustrador), Joseph Silver (Il·lustrador)

Sèrie: Threshold [2013] (1-8 collected), New 52

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Introducing Jediah Caul, a disgraced Green Lantern stripped of his power ring, who is hunted for sport on a televised reality show! Forced to battle aliens from across the galaxy, Caul must band together his own group of rebels to storm the metaphorical castle of their abductees before the game ends and they lose. Plus, Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern goes on a quest across the galaxy when someone steals his stuff--and NO ONE steals from Larfleeze! Collects Threshold 1-8 and Green Lantern New Guardians Annual 1… (més)
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Put me in the 5% (of people who gave this 5 stars) because this was awesome! The first half wasn't as exciting as the second, it was more setup and I'm not sure at all why Blue Beetle was included or that "god" guy. But the Star Hawkins/Ilda stuff was amazing, their banter was hilarious and the Larfleeze stuff had me laughing the whole time too. The art totally rocked with random aliens walking around in the background all the time.

The serious stuff was cool too. The "Hunted" plot seemed like something you would see as a movie plot, the twist ending was amazing, and I LOVED K-Rot. More please. You can leave out the Lanterns if you want, except Larfleeze ( )
  ragwaine | Sep 6, 2023 |
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Threshold was DC's first attempt at a "New 52"-era space-based ongoing comic, and The Hunted is its first and last volume. Threshold is the creation of Keith Giffen, co-creator of two 1980s space-based DC ongoings, The Omega Men and L.E.G.I.O.N. I don't know why it's called Threshold, but The Hunted is like the Hunger Games in space, sort of: it's a reality television series in Lady Styx's domain of Tolerance where political undesirables are forcibly enrolled. They have bounties placed on their heads, and are then let loose in Tolerance, and anyone who kills them gets the prize money. Anyone can take a shot, but popular groups of professionals have evolved. The longer you avoid being killed, the higher your bounty goes; L.E.G.I.O.N.'s Stealth appears as a long-time survivor of the games. The main character is Jediah Caul. Caul is a Green Lantern who sells out a trio of other "spectrum warriors" (purple, blue, and yellow) to The Hunted, but when they escape the game, Styx's people replace them with Caul.

Caul's not a very nice guy, and we watch him try to survive as he encounters 21st-century reworkings of a lot of old-school DC space characters, like Space Ranger and Tommy Tomorrow and Captain Carrot and Star Hawkins and the Star Rovers. Plus characters like the Blue Beetle show up, too. This was what made the book difficult for me: there was a lot to keep track of, and given that these characters were mostly created in the 1950s, most of them were generic white dudes. It seemed like there were too many for Keith Giffen to keep track of, too, as ideas and characters would be set up that went nowhere, or popped up sporadically.

I just could never get into the book as much as I would have liked. Too many characters, a premise that came across as both thin and overegged, a main character I never really enaged with, and too much sub-Firefly future slang that reminded me of the kind of thing Kris Straub parodied in Starslip. That's not to say it was bad: I liked Captain K'rot, and the whole Brainiac subplot was kind of interesting, but at times it was a slog that didn't seem to be going anywhere.

That said, there were two things I enjoyed. The first is the Star Hawkins backups, ten-page strips about what Tolerance's worst P.I. and his robot secretary (who has the mind of his ex-wife) are up to while Caul's on the run. They have some legit laugh-out-loud parts.

The other was the last issue, where Giffen provides a meta-commentary on the whole series by cancelling The Hunted. Blue Beetle even shows up to complain he didn't have anything to do with anything, and a spin-off is proposed, disposed of on the second-last page, a new spin-off is proposed and disposed of on the same page!

The sheer brazenness of the last issue made it hugely enjoyable, especially the way Giffen dovetails the last Star Hawkins backup into the main story, but I think if the best part of your comics series is the issue where you complain about being cancelled, you kinda had a problem from the very beginning.

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Keith Giffenautor primaritotes les edicionscalculat
Kolins, ScottIl·lustradorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Raney, TomIl·lustradorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Winslade, PhilIl·lustradorautor principaltotes les edicionsconfirmat
Bressan, AndreiIl·lustradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Green II, TimothyIl·lustradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Silver, JosephIl·lustradorautor secundaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
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Introducing Jediah Caul, a disgraced Green Lantern stripped of his power ring, who is hunted for sport on a televised reality show! Forced to battle aliens from across the galaxy, Caul must band together his own group of rebels to storm the metaphorical castle of their abductees before the game ends and they lose. Plus, Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern goes on a quest across the galaxy when someone steals his stuff--and NO ONE steals from Larfleeze! Collects Threshold 1-8 and Green Lantern New Guardians Annual 1

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