Title: Interesting characters. Plot takes forever to get nowhere.
Product review: Maybe Frank Miller and many others raised the bar too much, but when I pick up a graphic novel now, I expect it to hold my interest just as firmly as any other well-written work of fiction. I'm a sucker for the whole heroes-in-their-golden-years concept, and I like the way the older characters are characterized and visualized. Unfortunately, it's in service of an uninvolving plot. The psuedo-profound dialogue is pretty awful, and the new Red Skull is almost as annoying as young Anakin in the Phantom Menace (I didn't think it was possible either). Moreover, an epic can hardly be satisfying if the payoff is a cosmic joke. This may work in a satire, like Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, but not in an epic.
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