Royals #11

An excellent entry in a good series, excited for next issue. Read Full Review

Royals is really coming into its own with these past few issues. #11 is a solid read with high stakes and an intriguing plotline. This one definitely earns a recommendation. Give it a read. Read Full Review

It's a major feat to have this great of an Inhumans book without much Black Bolt involvement. Even with Gorgon and Medusa's uncomfortable relationship, this series takes the characters to new heights as they explore the galaxy. Read Full Review

bigteebomb

May 22, 2018

Art is good. I really don't give a fucking about swain and I wish she had died instead of Gorgon. The last issue better be a doozy. I don't feel like we received nearly enough information about the progenitors.

CrazyforRAMU

Jun 09, 2018

The Royals' mission turns into a desperate Indiana-Jones-style smash and grab. As promised, somebody gets left behind, and it's a fairly impressive and heart-wrenching sacrifice. Al Ewing's script is strong and imaginative, but the dialogue is pure melodrama and the imagination doesn't stretch to providing the characters with emotions that go beyond soap operatics. Although Javier Rodríguez is generally a strong artist with some distinctive talents, conveying sorrow and drawing dynamic fight scenes aren't among them. In a story this emotional and fighty, those shortcomings become too significant to ignore. Strong as it is, Al Ewing's script isn't strong enough to shuffle you past the artistic weak spots in blissful ignorance. This is an am bitious comic and that makes it lovable, but the creators' execution on their big ideas is indubitably flawed. Bigger picture complaint: When is Marvel going to realize putting Al Ewing on their standard 2010s Artist Carousel is an endless disaster? All of his post-Secret Wars work has been wildly ambitious, imaginative stuff, and *all* of it has been undercut by jarring art shifts. The man wants to build strange new worlds. Pay a good artist enough to stick with him all the way through the building process, Marvel, jeez. more