Review: Stick to Real Comics Instead
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 12, 2013
Black Onyx is a prose comic book, plain and simple. Dillon Mentzer, an international treasure hunter, goes on an expedition to Antarctica with his father, where he discovers an lost city with an alien culture. One of the artifacts is a suit that gives the wearer great strength and the ability to fly at incredible speeds. Using the suit, he later, he tangles with a vicious drug dealer who also finds the city and appropriates another suit with bizarre results.As a comic book, this could have been a lot of fun. However, the abrupt breaks from panel to panel and lack of background exposition we take for granted in comics can be very annoying and at times confusing in what's supposed to be a novel, even an extremely short one like this. There's potentially interesting characters here but we never get to know since the text cuts things off very abruptly. Methos appears to have some writing talent (a chapter in which the drug dealer tosses people to crocodiles, although clichéd, is gruesomely entertaining), but it's hard to tell.As an origin issue of a comic, this work isn't bad. As prose, it's mediocre at best.