Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday - BookOne

by Jim Lee, Scott Williams

After downloading the Creation Equation, Max Faraday must work with heroes including John Lynch and Caitlin Fairchild to understand his new powers, rescue his cyber-girlfriend, and keep the Equation out of the hands of the Rath.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics

176 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

About the author

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Jim Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, creator and publisher. After graduating from Princeton, he decided to attempt illustrating comic books, and met with success. Lee's distinctive, crisply hatched line art style and rigid, idealized anatomical forms established a new stylistic standard for superhero comic-book illustration and reinforced a popular trend away from brushed to penned inking in the late 20th and early 21st century. Lee is currently one of the most successful artists in American comics.

He has received a great deal of recognition for his work in the industry, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent in 1990.

Reviews

[Chip'sBookBinge · Rating 2 out of 5]

Let me start off by saying that I love Jim Lee's pencils in pretty much any book that he draws. The guy knows how to tell a story with just pictures alone. And that's where the fan-boy worshiping ends. This book is awful. The characters, story and dialogue is downright horrible. The entire book is one big giant cliché after another. Jim is an amazing artist and that's all Divine Right has going for it. I think the problem with most artist that suddenly think they can write a book is they have told countless stories with pictures and then say..."how hard can it be to write dialogue?" The problem is that they are only pulling from the comic book world and nothing else..or so it seems. So, those cliché plot points are just going to be rehashed over and over, not giving the reader anything new, exciting or original.

Why is it necessary to create the same Alien Characters over and over and give them the dumbest names possible? They all look alike save for the new costume designs. Why must they go to the same well over and over and give us Alien Invasion stories? Is it really that hard to sit down and do some research from other source material that isn't comic book related? Personally, I think the entire book would have been so much better if Jim had stuck to just Max and his online relationship with Suzanne and his relationship with Dev and his sister Jenn. It was far more engaging and compelling than any of the stuff that came after. But even this was botched as well. It's not until issue #7 before we even get to really see their relationship in full and how they bonded over the internet. If you want to give the reader something to hold onto and make us care about what happens to the characters, especially when she is kidnapped....set up the chemistry between the two leads first. Otherwise it's just a waste of time because there is no urgency when she gets kidnapped at the beginning of the story arc. I couldn't have cared less. The reader is just left with assuming they have a "connection". Not a good way to start of a book.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. It's got your classic Jim Lee art, but even that fades at the end when they bring in other artist to finish what he started. So, you're not even getting an entire series of Jim Lee pencils. I'm being very generous with the 2 Star rating here.

This is definitely a Skip.


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[Jimmy Briggs · Rating 3 out of 5]

So even Jim Lee's amazing art could not save this one. As a massive comic book fan and someone who would read almost any comic, and when you have Jim Lee drawing Scott Williams, I would have to say it would be awesome, oh hell no. I kept reading it and I just felt like nothing was happening. Yeah, what I was looking at was beautiful as Jim always is, but the story was, I don't really know how else to say it, "over thought out". They were trying to hard to make this epic or action packed. I love both Scott and Jim, but this just did not work for me. Maybe I'll just flip through the pages and look at the art.

[Jan Geerling · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another journey into my teenage years. Divine Right was a funny attempt to combine comics with the cyberspace generation. The Internet in-jokes now seem a little bit dated, but I remember fondly the days when I bought this comic, zipped my soda in the train and read about how Max was coping with his transformation into a God.

Story wise perhaps not the best Comics has to offer, but the fun and enthusiasm that the creators must have felt is obvious on every page.

[Juan Jose]

Jim Lee not at his finest hour!

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eh, entertaining, but not the best from Wildstorm. More of a 2.5 stars mostly just for the nostalgia factor. My first favorite comics were Jim Lee.

[PJ Ebbrell]

Sorry, but I gave up. Of its time.