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Tech Jacket #4
Tech Jacket, Vol. 4: All Falls Down
Planets are being murdered, galaxies are being slaughtered, and Tech Jacket is standing on the front lines of a battle he can't win. Safe to say, no one's making it out of this one without a few scars...
Collects Tech Jacket #7-12.
Collects Tech Jacket #7-12.
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160 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2014
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March 12, 2023
3.5 stars. Great action and a solid overall wrap-up on the Tech Jacket series. This one seemed about the perfect length and while this was created by Robert Kirkman, Keatinge took over the second half of this character’s run and continued Kirkman’s vision in a manner I’m sure he would have approved of!
April 23, 2017
The fight continues
February 25, 2021
Tech Jacket Vol. 4 All Falls Down collects issues 7-12 of the series written by Joe Keatinge with art by Khary Randolph and EJ Su.
A powerful civilization killing force has arrived in the solar system to wipe out Earth. Now it is up to Tech Jacket and his friends to save the world.
This arc was hard to follow at times with so much happening on each page. This volume wraps up Tech Jacket's solo series. I believe the series started strong but by the end became mediocre. The last two arcs really didn't have anything special to tell. One of my favorite aspects of this book is Zach's willingness to throw his body on the line to save the day, but he always makes sure to make people are safe when he does so. So many superhero destroye so much property and life in huge battles in major population centers. Zach always makes sure to take the fight to an unpopulated area. It just seems like such a no brainier that most writers don't seem to grasp.
A powerful civilization killing force has arrived in the solar system to wipe out Earth. Now it is up to Tech Jacket and his friends to save the world.
This arc was hard to follow at times with so much happening on each page. This volume wraps up Tech Jacket's solo series. I believe the series started strong but by the end became mediocre. The last two arcs really didn't have anything special to tell. One of my favorite aspects of this book is Zach's willingness to throw his body on the line to save the day, but he always makes sure to make people are safe when he does so. So many superhero destroye so much property and life in huge battles in major population centers. Zach always makes sure to take the fight to an unpopulated area. It just seems like such a no brainier that most writers don't seem to grasp.
August 5, 2016
Confusing at times, mainly one long space battle
Not as good as previous volumes in my opinion, this volume deals mainly with a long space battle, the causes of which are not totally clear. Lots of colour and fighting removes a lot of the person-to-person (being to being!) inter-action which is a shame. However the story is still entertaining and worth a look, especially if you've read the previous volumes.
The best thing about this volume is that it looks as if it's the end of the series, not that I have anything against the series beyond my criticisms above but it doesn't drag on forever as the Invincible series has been.
September 4, 2019
Fun world building.
June 5, 2021
Oy.
The previous volume was...not great. This one did not improve things. The childhood flashbacks appear inconsistently, and are generally simultaneously ham-fisted and very weak as characterization. Zach continues to be laden with "dillhole" and "butthead" and other "Look! He's a PG-13 teenager!" sorts of language that just grates.
Keatinge decides to bring the previously established polyamorous arrangement between Zach and Lin to the fore, and does so in a moralizing way that seems to have some very weird ideas. Lin invites another partner to Zach's home without telling either of them the other exists, and Zach is called a "whiny brat" and "an asshole" by his mother (who previously made Zach swear he and Lin would not have sex, which is what led to all of this—and makes this admonishment one in a series of confusing, out-of-character, "I need someone to say this, his dad's too laidback, but parents are authority figures, so I guess this works!" kind of mouth-stuffing).
The whole Crowe/Stanley subplot is subverted with an anticlimactic whimper, but one that seems to just ignore all the preceding groundwork laid by the whole subplot in the first place. That kind of "self-subversion" is on grand display here: we spent six issues getting Zach into an evolved Tech Jacket, but it does absolutely nothing differently, and the incoming Geldarians dismiss it as crappy, aged-out iterations of the technology, not, "Woah, what? No one designed one like that!" (maybe it was devolved?!).
So it's a clutter of ideas Keatinge and Randolph are struggling to realize: there's some interesting stuff behind it all, but the mercurial characters who have emotional strains that appear out of nowhere and are resolved like Saturday morning cartoons (while being doused in gore) leave it uneven, unsatisfying, and generally eye-rolling. Ugh.
The previous volume was...not great. This one did not improve things. The childhood flashbacks appear inconsistently, and are generally simultaneously ham-fisted and very weak as characterization. Zach continues to be laden with "dillhole" and "butthead" and other "Look! He's a PG-13 teenager!" sorts of language that just grates.
Keatinge decides to bring the previously established polyamorous arrangement between Zach and Lin to the fore, and does so in a moralizing way that seems to have some very weird ideas. Lin invites another partner to Zach's home without telling either of them the other exists, and Zach is called a "whiny brat" and "an asshole" by his mother (who previously made Zach swear he and Lin would not have sex, which is what led to all of this—and makes this admonishment one in a series of confusing, out-of-character, "I need someone to say this, his dad's too laidback, but parents are authority figures, so I guess this works!" kind of mouth-stuffing).
The whole Crowe/Stanley subplot is subverted with an anticlimactic whimper, but one that seems to just ignore all the preceding groundwork laid by the whole subplot in the first place. That kind of "self-subversion" is on grand display here: we spent six issues getting Zach into an evolved Tech Jacket, but it does absolutely nothing differently, and the incoming Geldarians dismiss it as crappy, aged-out iterations of the technology, not, "Woah, what? No one designed one like that!" (maybe it was devolved?!).
So it's a clutter of ideas Keatinge and Randolph are struggling to realize: there's some interesting stuff behind it all, but the mercurial characters who have emotional strains that appear out of nowhere and are resolved like Saturday morning cartoons (while being doused in gore) leave it uneven, unsatisfying, and generally eye-rolling. Ugh.
April 2, 2025
It's more serious now. A lot less goofy with random power-ups all over the place. The silliness is still there with the Gurren Lagann ending though. I also don't know whether he's a community college or high school drop-out. In the final issue, he says that he was in high school. That's what he didn't finish, but in everything else, it says he dropped out of college, and I doubt he even finished high school.
Robert turned Zach into a freakyhero. This volume is just like Tenet. Tenet says it's about preventing a future war, but it's actually about domestic violence. Tech Jacket volume 4 says it's about the end of the universe, but it's about a freaky teenager finding out his gf has a gf.
Robert turned Zach into a freakyhero. This volume is just like Tenet. Tenet says it's about preventing a future war, but it's actually about domestic violence. Tech Jacket volume 4 says it's about the end of the universe, but it's about a freaky teenager finding out his gf has a gf.
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July 7, 2022
This jarring ending combines the desires of grandeur with a disappointing larger than life, trascendental, babbler. It lacks of real substance and an awful mix of mecha fantasy gone wrong.
April 16, 2023
The Tech Jacket saga ends pretty well even if the end is pretty confusing.
March 5, 2025
I mean it's a bit sad seeing it wrap up but hey at least it wrapped up pretty well. And who knows, with comics there might always be a revival
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