Ripped from a savage world ruled by magic and dropped at the outskirts of a modern city, feared warrior the Mongrel King is found and rescued by a homeless man who guides him through a new land with new vices and hardships.
From the Eisner Award-winning team of Jeff Lemire, Mike Deodato Jr., and Frank Martin comes this urban warrior fantasy series!
When it comes to any story written by Jeff Lemire, I usually find there's a slower start to where the writer establishes his setting – that wasn't the case last issue, and with the slower pace in Berserker Unbound #2 I can't help but feel that this is a deliberate choice to illustrate the mundanity and hopelessness of the Mongrel King's new situation – Lemire is the kind of writer that has a long game in mind, and I have every intention of sticking around to find out what that is. Read Full Review
Excellent art and some fine, unflashy writing bring a different perspective to a trope that might otherwise bog itself down in the expected. Read Full Review
Mike Deodato Jr. delivers some amazing art in this issue. All of the detailed panels are a work of art in and of themselves. I love the visual style of this series and this issue especially. Read Full Review
The language barrier is certainly one way to drive the narrative forward as each gets to talk without being understood and you get creative in what's said and what isn't understood by it. Joe is a familiar standard kind of character at the moment but Lemire imbues him with enough personality and life that Deodata gets to work with and make him engaging when he's most one-dimensional. I do wish that our Mongrel King would get a name, and soon, but I'm also enjoying the language barrier aspect and seeing how that unfolds. I doubt it'll be long before some trick smoothes things out there but that would also start to explore more of how things are operating here. It's a solid early installment that has me looking forward to more, even if the artwork is more of the draw at the moment. Read Full Review
Berserker Unbound #2 is the quietest barbarian comic you'll ever read, and the story is all the better for it. Read Full Review
Its going to be interesting to see where the story goes next, but Im truly grateful that Lemire has opted for intriguing character drama rather than fish-out-of-water comedy, and Deodato Jr. and Martin's artwork alone is more than worth the cover price every month. Highly recommended. Read Full Review
Berserker Unbound #2 is a sophomore issue that succeeds by fueling the mystery of how the Mongrel King will resolve his problem, chugging steadily along with its characters. Read Full Review
Conan Alone 2: Lost in New York trudges along in search for answers. Read Full Review
Lemire's writing kicks it up a gear with the second installment of Berserker Unbound, but it never reaches the height of his previous work, or distances itself much from other fish out of water stories that have been told; while Deodato Jr's. and Martin's color still feel excellent as they carry the story. Read Full Review
Lacking the self aware edge that defined the series debut, Berserker Unbound #2 sets a mundane stage for our larger than life hero, but does little to live up to Berserker's savage reputation. There's still a chance that a great story could develop in Berserker Unbound. But its certainly not in this issue. Read Full Review
Considering the lack of originality found in this concept and how dedicated the series is to explaining such a simple idea, it's hard to appreciate even the bright spots in Berserker Unbound thus far. Read Full Review
A beautifully written and observed character issue follows last month's interesting, if slightly underrated, opener. Jeff Lemire writes very human characters, and Berserker Unbound continues the work on other titles for which Lemire is justifiably lauded. Much of the criticism that this comic has received is, I believe, born out of people thinking they were buying something that they weren't; many expected a Conan knock-off and have been left puzzled at what they are reading. This is a Jeff Lemire story, so people perhaps shouldn't really be surprised that it is interested in the small moments of human interaction. Mike Deodato's art is also worthy of high praise, and complements Lemire's script perfectly.
Jeff Lemire seems to genuinely want to do good by this comic. His choice of words are impressive with plenty of attention to subjects, the dialogues and interaction between the two characters are often amusing, funny and altruistic as much as they are superfluous, character development is well made nonetheless.
I'm thoroughly impressed with the art and the way the artist, Mike Deodato chose to bring them together with a novel use of panels. One more thing I came to notice from reading it so far is that the pace is brisk and it didn't bore me once, for some it may be a negative aspect - not covering what's essential but I say, what's more important than establishing humanity?
Finally JL is hitting the right notes! a tale with a lot of heart!
Better than the first issue, but still kind of boring. I'm sticking with it just because it's Jeff Lemire.
Way better than the 1st issue. Still not a fan but I trust Lemire, let's see where this goes.
Gotta get better soon. Can't live off of Lemire's reputation much longer.
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