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2.0

This was shockingly mehish. I remember watching the movie years back and finding it pretty entertaining. Now I was a teen, so rewatching it now could make me think it sucked. Anyway, I figured I'd try the comic series. Got all 3 books in the series for 8 bucks. Now I can kind of see why I got them so cheap.

The story is about a bunch of mercs going off the grid, presumed dead, but then they are not, and then there's a whole lot of backstabbing and revealing the true bad guys and then...nothing? Like it just ends on a real odd note that feels like it wasn't sure how to wrap up. Just a lot of "Oh no he's the bad guy, but duh, no duh, well oh shit, yeah he dead...no he's not" lot of twist and turns without any fucks to give.

What I liked: Some funny character moments and cool ideas. Like the idea of this story is pretty solid and the characters COULD have been great.

What I didn't like: I didn't remember a single name, the art is really fucking ugly and hard to follow, and the storyline...dumb? Like ones that try to be really hard to follow but fail and they come off as try hard? That's this. Also the characters are so bland I can't remember their name or anything.

This was pretty bad. Awful even. I had to force myself to get through this. Maybe I should just watch the movie again instead. A 1.5 out of 5. I'll give it a 2 just because I'm being nice.