Rage is a powerful thing. The Hulk uses it to his advantage while the rest of us get absorbed by it. “Furious†by Bryan J. L. Glass is a comic about a hero with anger issues and it needs to settle down a bit.
Cadence Lark has a bit of an anger issue. So much so that her outbursts appear in a magazine. She eventually tries to reconcile this by changing her look and becoming a superhero. Problem is the first time she did this she pummeled two serial abusers while saving two kidnapped college students. This has given her the name “Furious.†Now she’s trying to change the public’s view of her by trying to keep her anger down and actually save people.
It’s a cool concept that doesn’t deliver on the goods. Cadence does come of a likable character anyone with any kind of anger issues will relate to. The problem is the story is so boring and lifeless that the reader stops caring about what happens at the midway point. Cadene’s constant putting herself down through inner monologue wears down on the reader that they begin to skim through the story looking for something interesting to happen.
The art by Victor Santos fluctuates from decent to poor. There are time when the art looks like there was care involved and others where it seems like Santos was rushing to make deadline. This transition in quality is what kills the scene in certain parts. It gets even worse when we see the people in the convenience store scene. They look more like blobs with human bodies than actual humans.
“Furious†is an interesting project that doesn’t deliver on the goods. A story that gets boring the deeper you get into it and art that rises and falls in quality makes for an unenjoyable read. This comics needs to be put in anger management ASAP.
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