The Prometheus Corporation has unearthed something ancient and dangerous in its underwater excavations, and now it's come to the surface to make humanity its prey. Their solution? To lure the thing back in the sea and kill everything within a five mile radius, effectively covering the corporation's tracks. And so a disgraced marine biologist must race against the clock and find a way to keep the ocean from being destroyed by the corporation before something even more dangerous is unleashed on mankind...
Michael Lent's new graphic novel is The Man Who Wasn't There published by Global Comix, comixology and Amazon Books.
Honored as a ‘Google Author’ in 2007, his writing/experience spans films, fiction and nonfiction books, biographies, graphic novels, animation, video games, and reality television. He has written nine books including On Thin Ice, published by Disney/Hyperion, based on the top-rated reality television series Ice Road Truckers. Research for this project entailed spending winter in the Arctic where Lent froze his pens off. His credits also include more than a dozen graphic novels and comics including Prey published by Marvel Comics, In 2014, Lent adapted into a graphic novel E.M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops.”
I always try to find something good in books even if they are not that good and I prefer not to be too harsh but I honestly can't give a better rate to this book.
Like, why do you give the "origin of the species" title to this if it literally doesn't explain the origin of the species? All we know they come from the bottom of the ocean. Where they were hibernated. We know nothing of their origin. We know only a bit more about what they are and what they are like. Along with this, the story was a bit... rushing. Everything happened fast, things didn't really have weight, the characters had zero personality. There was businessman bad guy, there was main guy with some tragic, there was the love interest-like woman as side character, and I could go on.
Unfortunately, the art is bad, too. So it's not like this part could have saved the bad story and badly/blankly written characters.
But even with these, I would have given it at least two stars IF they'd managed to deliver the promised horror/sci-fi mood but... they hadn't. It couldn't keep me interested, it didn't give me chills, nothing at all.
All in all, I had high hopes for this but I disappointed a lot. I don't recommend.