Gambit #8
Review: Gambit #8
After a nice little run of issues where Gambit grinned his way across the UK and proved he’s no one’s patsy, this issue does leave one a bit wanting.
Yes, we do get a shirtless Remy, something you can never get enough of, but Asmus decided to get a little too long-winded in his thought bubbles for Gambit. It worked for the first couple of issues because he was setting the stage, but here, it completely distracts from any sense of movement or action that might be taking place. It was a good back-story Asmus was telling… just wrong place, wrong time.
Basically, this is the comic equvalant of something I always complain about in tv and movies, which is too much ‘speechifying’ of the character’s emotions. Gambit is also always better when you don’t know what is going on behind that Cajun Devil smile of his.
Number 8 really felt like a bridge-issue, something to get us from point A to point B. This isn’t neccesarly a bad thing, we need those issues, but this one could have used a bit more polish.
And possibly more dinosaurs.
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