Clément Martin rated Lastman - Tome 2: 5 stars
Lastman - Tome 2 by Bastien Vivès, Yves Bigerel, Michaël Sanlaville (Lastman, #2)
Lancé au cours du tome 1 de Lastman, le grand tournoi annuel parrainé par le roi Virgil et la reine …
Good ideas but a lack of narrative consistency (constantly switching between 1st, 2nd and 3rd person, for instance) makes it hard to follow.
It's a shame because I was totally sold on the "Black Panther meets The Expanse" premise: the Muungano civilisation, built as an alternative to the predatory and capitalistic one at work on Earth, sounds absolutely amazing.
However, the setting is told, not shown, and in lore drops that often happen at the worst possible moment. A missed opportunity for me, but it didn't help that I had to read it very fast. Still think it would be better if it was 100 pages shorter.
