Iron Muslim #1

Iron Muslim #1
Boom Studios
Written by Rich Johnston
Art by Bryan Turner

Follow me, if you will. Instead of having a super-rich, playboy, super-genius engineer who built body armor that can fly, shoot repulser blasts and is mostly invulnerable to harm in it American who realizes he’s on a path to self-destruction, turn his life around and become a hero. Why not make him into a Muslim who hates America and destroys the Statue of Liberty but loves what comes out of it, i.e. a huge coffee chain, computer store and a TV comedy about super-smart guys and he has to save his image so he can keep going into these stores and all. Yeah, that’s what I said.

Ok, The art was bright and drawn with exaggerated features. I will say, it did add to the story and moved it along. With the art, it could be someone’s dream. The writing, well, this type of satire, I’m not a fan of. But I could see the humor that was supposed to be there and a point that came across from it, whether the writer wanted it or not. Each panel fit with what the story was saying a few small or huge pictures kept the story flowing. Even the cover art told you what to expect inside.

Personally, I wasn’t to taken with this book. There was just something about it that didn’t work for me. Maybe because of a recent relationship I was in or how certain things were portrayed, I don’t know. Humor can be used to show things as they are, bridge cultural divides but here, I don’t see good coming out of it. Again, this might just be me. So, I’ll split the difference. To be honest, it wasn’t that bad, but not for me. In my humble opinion, I will say thumb through this at the store and decide from there. I’m not going to say yes or no. I give this 3 caps out of 5.