Many of the panels were basically just drawings of screencaps from the show. Since the show ALREADY basically revolves around Sarah, retelling the beginning of Season 1 from *her* perspective really didn't add much.Īlso, I tend to be fairly forgiving about art style in comic books, but the art in this just didn't really impress me. Basically all this issue did was take key scenes from the first three or four episodes of Season 1 and overlay them with Sarah's internal dialogue, which just didn't add enough of a new angle or new insights (it was mostly Sarah thinking "shite shite shite" to herself) to make it worth the time to read it. At the same time, it was almost entirely comprised of scenes and word-for-word dialogue yanked straight from the show, making it a frustratingly stale read for Orphan Black fans hoping for side stories and back stories of the characters we already know so well. The writing and storyline in the first issue of this comic is choppy, disjointed, and confusing, and had I not seen the show I would have had a very difficult time making sense of it. I know comics have to do a certain amount of recapping for audiences who have not seen the show, while also introducing new material for readers who (like me) have seen the show more times than is publicly acceptable to admit, but I felt like this did not really do a good job of either task. (No spoilers in this review.) I had high hopes for this comic because I love the Orphan Black tv series so much, but I was pretty disappointed with this first installment.
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