Review: Comic Book Culture Reigns Supreme
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 30, 2013
In a world dominated by media and comic book culture, the visual description of super heroes bursting at the seems while accomplishing unimaginable feats ceases to shock. Vardan Partamyan's I, the Provocateur, fits the bill. It is gory, gloomy, bloody, dramatic and offers some surprising twists and turns inside its predictable whole. The visual backdrop remains fresh and clear, concise prose construct a scaffold strengthened by stylish; yet, one-dimensional comic-book relationships.First person narration leads the reader through a highly imaginative series of phantasmagorical realities toward a foregone conclusion:  Freedom Conquers All. Considered inside its genre, I, The Provocateur meets its goals and passes time for the reader. What I will never understand about this genre is why the writers decide to leave the realm of the comic book. The story lacks visuals to deliver the promised punch of the sometimes long narrations. The silver screen would suit Partamyan's work gloriously.