A quick, fun ride. [Conspiracy: Illuminati New World Order by Hans Rodionoff]
"Is the government monitoring you? Are there secret organizations controlling society? Do creatures not of this world live among us? All of this and more is explored in this new thrilling series that delves into some of the horrifying truths we believe in the back of our minds."
A graphic novel I read through NetGalley, Conspiracy: Illuminati New World Order at times has that forced patriotism feel that a lot of graphic novels had post-9/11. At times. And it starts off going down that route, so at the beginning I was worried we were going to get some subversive right-wing message. But then it took a turn, for the better.
I'm a fan of conspiracies central to the plot. So as the story expanded on the conspiracy with every chapter (I think each correlating to an issue) my interest rose. But then we had a last minute twist (one I won't detail) that made the plot comical. The appeal of conspiracies is that they're rooted in a tangible reality, they have existing structures intertwined. The twist really just through everything for a loop and where the story could have pushed on with the idea of a large, all-encompassing secret power structure, it dove into wacky.
This volume of issues could be a one-shot deal, and that seems to be the intent. Or it could continue, but that might require a dream sequence type explanation. For the majority of it I was genuinely interested in the story and plots seemed to be fleshed out really well. But that late twist just took away from the story for me. So I'm gonna give it a 4 stars. The plot was more up my alley than a lot of graphic novels and I enjoyed the animation style. Were it not for that late plot redirect I might have considered 5 stars.
A graphic novel I read through NetGalley, Conspiracy: Illuminati New World Order at times has that forced patriotism feel that a lot of graphic novels had post-9/11. At times. And it starts off going down that route, so at the beginning I was worried we were going to get some subversive right-wing message. But then it took a turn, for the better.I'm a fan of conspiracies central to the plot. So as the story expanded on the conspiracy with every chapter (I think each correlating to an issue) my interest rose. But then we had a last minute twist (one I won't detail) that made the plot comical. The appeal of conspiracies is that they're rooted in a tangible reality, they have existing structures intertwined. The twist really just through everything for a loop and where the story could have pushed on with the idea of a large, all-encompassing secret power structure, it dove into wacky.
This volume of issues could be a one-shot deal, and that seems to be the intent. Or it could continue, but that might require a dream sequence type explanation. For the majority of it I was genuinely interested in the story and plots seemed to be fleshed out really well. But that late twist just took away from the story for me. So I'm gonna give it a 4 stars. The plot was more up my alley than a lot of graphic novels and I enjoyed the animation style. Were it not for that late plot redirect I might have considered 5 stars.
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