On their
latest Critiquing Comics podcast,
Tim and
Mulele take a look at a recent chunk of Super Haters strips (from around #
355-
394) and, well, they don't like it very much...
at all. In fact,
Critiquing Comics gives Super Haters a 3 out of 10 ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆
Truth be told, they simply don't like the comic strip and I think they were extremely fair in expressing their distaste. They make sure to state that they've only read the past couple of story arcs. And while they're not fans of my relatively unmoving art, they did enjoy what they saw of the
Guest Weeks (namely,
Virginia's work).
And me? Well, I enjoyed listening to them tear Super Haters to shreds. Here are some of my favorite moments:
- Mulele, in reference to Work for Hire: "The premise itself is just nonsense."
- Tim: "I sometimes failed to see what was really funny about what was meant to be a joke."
- Mulele: "These characters are self-involved ego maniacs who basically dislike each other but for some reason continue to interact."
- Mulele: "It's just not interesting."
There's only one thing I'm bummed about and it's not specific to this Critiquing Comics review -- the vast majority of
reviews have completely overlooked the meta commentary on modern superhero storytelling inherent in the physical nature of Super Haters. The Big Two corporate properties are often written like unchanging, unmovtivated, attention-starved sociopaths. That's the whole fucking point behind Super Haters... to make fun of that!!!
Anyway, thx to Tim and Mulele for taking the time to read and review Super Haters.
Shaenon Garrity shared some thoughts about Super Haters in
her first set of webcomics capsule reviews on The Comics Journal.
Here's an excerpt:
I'm bummed that she spent most of the review ripping into the early Haters strips and didn't mention any of the good stuff that happened between #50-350 (plus, she calls it "Superhaters" the whole time)... but, regardless, it still feels good to get trashed by TCJ!!! ;D
There's a new
Super Haters review on UggaBugga.net by the Ugga Bugga himself. Here's what he had to say:
This is a really fun strip, and the fact that it is daily, is a massive accomplishment. The gags work. It is fun and funny. The characters are fun. I could see this developed from the gag concept into a full blown action adventure comic, with the right artistic team in place.
Thx, Ugga Bugga!
Brian Cronin is running a feature this May called
A Month of Webcomics over on his
Comics Should Be Good blog at
Comic Book Resources. CSBG is one of my favorite blogs, and it's by far my favorite blog for superhero comics content, so I'm thrilled that Super Haters was featured this past weekend!
It's a spotlight on Super Haters and not a review, so I don't have lots of glowing pull quotes to share with you... but Brian does a good job summing the style of this comic strip. He notes our over-reliance on sex jokes and the fact that Destruct-O-Tron and Mind's Eye spend most of their time standing around and talking.
My favorite line from the piece is: "But really, at the heart of the strip, Marino just likes to do lots of absurdist humor." That's exactly what I'm going for here!!! He gets it!!
Anyway, go check out
A Month of Webcomics - Super Haters now!
As I mentioned in
my last review blog post, my bud
Brian John Mitchell was kickass enough to include Super Haters in his
most recent round of press outreach.
And thx to that, Super Haters landed an awesome review from Luke Halsall of
Geek Syndicate. Here's what Luke had to say:
Super Haters by Nick Marino and Justique Woolridge follows Destruct-O-Tron and Mind's Eye. They are two ineffective heroes who can barely fight crime and never save the world. A satire on the typical comic book hero. ... Marino and Woolridge's script is tight and funny. It works well as do the jokes. The two lead characters play off each other well. It is fast paced, firing joke after joke. This could be a worrying thing to hear with many writers using so many jokes to cover up that only one or two that are funny. Yet this is not the case here. They are a well crafted, humorous take on the hero. For example, Battle Pixie is a hilarious portrayal of what a fairy would look like. ... The artwork of Super Haters is simple but this is to its credit. It compliments the satirist style of the book interestingly. ... Super Haters is a funny take on a super hero's life and worth checking out.
Thx, Luke!
My friend and comics collaborator,
Brian John Mitchell, was kind enough to include Super Haters along with his
latest batch of awesome mini-comics when he was soliciting for reviews a couple weeks ago.
The first Super Haters review that came out of this round of outreach was from Richard Vasseur of
Jazma Online. Here's what he had to say:
This is strange a guy in a suit of armor with a super-hero called Mind's Eye for his shrink they get into a conversation with his sister who is also a super-hero in armor. Destruct-O-Tron (Todd) and Destruct-O-Bot (Beth) they have cute names. This comic is weird. It does have cute characters but they just stand around talking. Destruct-O-Tron can be insensitive. The overall comic is funny. The characters seem to almost laugh at each other. Destruct-O-Tron is humorous to watch.
Thx, Richard!