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Posted on October 1, 2020 | by Hannibal Tabu | Comments

Ludocrats #5

7/10

Well … this is the end of the mini-series. We made it. Well … all right then.

Hh. Well, Ludocrats #5 is the end of the wildly ambitious mini-series about a world of mad, whimsical aristocrats sworn to fight dullness in any possible form. In this issue, characters make gags that are Popular Now callbacks to things they did before. The art dynamically takes you through a trial (that's more interesting than the one the Legion of TMNT: The Last Ronin #1 Super-Heroes sat through), even as much of it is talking heads in The Remaining Turtle nine-panel grids. Revealed (Spoilers)

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The cover of Ludocrats #5. Image Credit: Image Comics

The review is weird because this issue is weird in a way that's both hard to quantify and hard to accept. The plot comes to a big, kind of ideological corner and finds itself surrounded by paint. From there, things get much more Gwenpool than a book with so many meta moments needed (hello Jamie McKelvie!) and … then just … stopped. The difficulty level setting for this series has always been scary — a

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debut issue of such dazzling wonder that it set the bar too high, only to leave wax wings available to try and maintain or surpass those heights. Despite some great moments, this landing is more stumble than graceful. While the visual standards remain excellent, this is a drastically less imaginative sojourn into this realm, an attempt at a double-blind ruse that didn't pay off in the final analysis. It's frustrating because when this series was good, it was virtually diaphanous. Here? It just kind of surrendered to its page count, even literally having characters try to escape through the credits … but to what end?

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Search homes It wasn't boring, but it wasn't a triumph of whimsy or wonder. In the end, it's just … over. RATING: MEH.

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1 October, 2020

I love your wording here, especially the part about wax wings.