The Doctor reviews Dresden Codak
This will probably be one of my shorter posts, as compared to some of my others. Why? Because although I didn’t really care for the comic itself, I don’t necessarily have anything bad to say about it, per se; actually, I don’t have a lot to say about it, period.
The comic was, to me, confusing in the extreme, and that took a lot away for me. I suppose it’s because it may have used a lot of gag references or subject matter that I simply didn’t get, or simply because I’m from another time and so I don’t get a lot of references, period, that modern and edgy comics made. When I read through archives and the prime thought that keeps going through my mind is either “Huh?” or “What the–?!” (that’s a hidden reference for those of you in the know) I can pretty well figure that I’m not going to get a lot out of it. My apologies to the author on that score.
The art, also, was a bit on the jangled side, to my eye. Like a sentence that leaves off in the middle or is needlessly convoluted, it never seemed to follow any kind of pattern or layout other than having frames that divided the page and art inside the frames. That makes it a hard comic for me to read, let alone enjoy.
I also didn’t find it especially funny or engaging, as I mentioned above. There wasn’t really anything to bring me back to read it again and again, but also nothing jumped out at me as being particularly family-unfriendly or out of line, either. It simply didn’t appeal to me.
For generally being confusing and not seeming to have a lot of humor or intrinsic value, I give it 2 stars. Rating: 




The Doctor
Dresden Codak
Review by The Doctor
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