Dial H, Vol. 1: Into You
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Hugo Award-winning novelist China Mieville breathes new life into a classic DC Comics series as part of the second wave of DC Comics - The New 52. In the small run-down town of Littleville, CO, a troubled young man stumbles upon the lost H-Dial andall of the secrets and power it possesses. It has been many years since the H-Dial has been seen, though legions of villains have been scouring the globe looking for it and its ability to transform users into a variety of superheroes and take ontheir powers and psyches. Will our hero be able to harness the power of the H-Dial and protect it from falling into the hands of evil? Will this newfound power plunge our hero to madness? And will we ever discover where the H-Dial came from and its true meaning? Collects #0-6.
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Great art and world building matched a good story. Some of jokes are laugh out loud funny. Did seem to drag by the end.
While I was reading this, a friend of mine posted a comment on twitter that the issue with reading Mieville is that it takes 100 pages to really understand what's going on. This was that, but in reverse - at first it seemed to be a straightforward revamp of an (admittedly ridiculous) superhero concept, but then around 50 pages in he flings us off the cliff of understanding, and it becomes a story that uses superheroes as a thought experiment for existentialism, Nietzschean philosophy, and the transient nature of both identity and reality.
DC has a strong history of taking superhero concepts and using them as vehicles in this way - Dial H is the latest in a long line of titles like those that Moore, Gaiman, Morrison, and Delano produced in years past, both in terms of style and quality.
