norb reviewed BRZRKR Vol. 1 by Matt Kindt
This will serve as my review of BRZRKR Vols 1 - 3
3 stars
Content warning Spoilers for these volumes as well as The Book of Elsewhere
Overall I found these books to be a relatively quick reads. The premise is good. Keanu Reeves, I mean B/Unute, is a demigod (maybe? or he's an alien? Or something else?) who can't die. Well he can die but he comes back from an egg. Either way, he's been alive for tens of thousands of years. He's seen and done it all. He has a perfect memory. He's now working for the governement as a special forces type soldier, out doing special forces things except instead of fighting bad guys, he's out collecting weird artifacts for the government to use in experiments on him.
Overall, the story is rather shallow. Where the novel really outshines the comics is the additional world building and background on Unute. The comics I think actually did a better job at exploring a bit more of Unute's past, but he's pretty one dimensional here.
I preferred the overall plot of the novel to these volumes. I feel like the comics took the "easy way out" at the end, even though they left something else to follow. The end of the novel felt more satisfying to me.
All in all though, I enjoyed these and will explore the other entries at some point.
