TRADE COLLECTION REVIEW: The DECORUM HC, addictive world-building in action
The book, which collects all eight issues from the Hickman and Huddleston series, is due out April 27, 2022.
Read MoreThe book, which collects all eight issues from the Hickman and Huddleston series, is due out April 27, 2022.
Read MoreBy Larry Jorash — We see a triumphant return this week to the world-building that writer Jonathan Hickman is known for. As has become a norm with this series, this oversized issue features multiple pages of dazzling art and infographics…before we even reach the narrative. Decorum #4 then takes an eccentric turn and drops us into a cold open sequence, and once again the reader is asked to swim in the deep of this young book’s heavy lore.
Read MoreBy Larry Jorash — Decorum is a book without traditional narration or linear plot. Jonathan Hickman seems to have inspired himself within the confines of Marvel’s 2019 blockbusters, “House of X,” and ,“Powers of X.”
Read MoreBy Jacob Cordas — Jonathan Hickman, perhaps more than any other comic writer working today, plays a long game. Minor details in an early issue will pay off massive dividends years later. Character choices that seem off will often become character defining who knows how many issues later. This normally creates a unique problem when reviewing an early issue of any of his series…how do you say if something is good or bad when it necessitates knowing how it ends to judge? Is judgement possible or even valid this early in the game?
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