Written by: Ram V
Art by: Evan Cagle, Jesse Lonergan
Colors by: Francesco Segala, Jesse Lonergan
Letters by: Tom Napolitano
Cover art by: Nimit Malavia (cover A)
Cover price: $3.99
Release date: January 15, 2025
New Gods #2, by DC Comics on 1/15/25, unveils the importance of the god-child hiding on Earth, prodding an assortment of forces to take action on Earth, Apokalips, and beyond.
Is New Gods #2 Good?
Recap
When last we left High-Father and his kin in New Gods #1, the recent death of Darkseid led to a prophecy about a child recently born who would bring calamity. High-Father's solution? Send Orion to find and kill the child. The issue ended with Orion seeking Mister Miracle's help to prevent him from completing the mission orders he's compelled to obey.
Plot Synopsis
First Impressions
New Gods #2, from writer Ram V, is the point where you'll either get hooked on what Ram V is trying to do or be prompted to drop it entirely. Ram V's attempt to weave a grand tapestry of mythology waffles between intricate and convoluted, bogged down by Ram V's obsessive need to narrate the issue through flowery, pretentious language. If that sounds like a hoot to you, you're in for a treat.
How’s the Art?
The art, as with the writing, is a contradiction you'll either love or hate. The prologue and epilogue are presented through the Euro-futuristic lens of Jesse Lonergan to present a weirdly asymmetric creation in Karak the Scavenger. Thankfully, Evan Cagle's cleaner, more polished (cleaner than Lonergan's) art presents an ethereal view of the assorted conflicts in motion. Does that sound like gobbledygook? That's because that's what you get in the art, a mishmash of everything that tries to be fancy in multiple ways without achieving cohesion.
What’s great about New Gods #2?
What’s not great about New Gods #2?
Unfortunately, consistent with Ram V's writing style, you have to do more work than should be necessary to dig through the layers of plodding pace, convoluted focus, and pretentious language to get to that cool idea. Good ideas are king, but clarity is god, which is a truism Ram V has never adhered to.
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Final Thoughts
New Gods #2 builds on the good idea of issue #1 but falls victim to bad writing habits. At the heart of the issue, Ram V is constructing a tale that could create a new balance of power in the DC universe, but you have to wade through a convoluted, poorly paced plot to find it. Further, using two artists with weirdly dissonant styles imbalances rather than corrects for Ram V's plodding story.
5.8/10
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