Flex Mentallo : : man of Muscle Mystery

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Call Number: Adult Book / Comics & Graphic Novels / Superheroes / Flex Mentallo, Adult Graphic Novel / Morrison, Grant
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Downtown 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Adult Graphic Novel / Morrison, Grant	4-week checkout	Due 05-15-2024

"Originally published in single magazine form as Flex Mentallo 1-4."

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Couldn't finish it. And that's rare for me. submitted by eknapp on June 25, 2015, 10:40pm A while back I saw a Marc Forster movie called Stay. It started in reasonably coherent fashion with a shrink trying to locate a suicidal patient. Then it devolved into plot chaos: events repeating themselves, people wandering around murmuring sentence fragments into space, conversations between characters that died years before, it's contorted and phantasmagorical. Stay tried to salvage itself with a gasp!-twist ending, but it was much-too-little, much-too-late, what-was-the-point as far as I was concerned. I hated that movie.

Flex Mentallo's surreality reeks of Stay and that's a bad thing. A narrator ODing in an alley who meets Flex at different ages yet in a short timespan although Flex used to be an illustration but now he's real kind of like Pinocchio and fights a giant robot with five heads and hunting Rorschach-looking mystery men who throw not-real cartoon bombs and are pixelated while his partner The Fact MUST be found but HE might not be real and a castle in space that the little-boy version of the narrator is on sometimes and a herd (a flock? a murder?) of costumed heroes appears repeatedly they don't speak or do anything and Morrison tries to ramp up the doomsday-dread all Watchmen-like but fails and still fighting the giant robot wait his hand is actually the narrator's hand while the astronaut sees the superheroes but nobody believes him and that's it, I'm out. It might make sense in the end but I don't care. A quick skim of the back half doesn't look promising anyway.

Two stars instead of one because it's pretty and I've read dumber.