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BRZRKR, Vol. 1 by Keanu Reeves, Matt Kindt
2.0

Put Keanu Reeves on anything, and I'm there. His name attached to the project piqued my interest first (as well as seeing that one of the pages took inspiration from the sad Keanu meme). Everything about the comic fits his action star persona to a tee, basically taking John Wick and turning him into an ancient barbarian trying to remember who he is in the present day. The illustrations are extraordinarily detailed, however, most of the story either depicts countless dismemberment and follows the footsteps of characterization we've seen before (think of the opening to Wolverine: Origins, honestly, in comic form.) As a first volume, I just felt like I've seen it before, and all of the violence even on the page made me more numb than intrigued. If the second volume happen to come along at the library or something, I might check it out. But, this was a little too short and unexciting to make me want to seek it out on my own.