CBR Review: Sherlock Holmes #5

I recently reviewed Sherlock Holmes #5 and, in the process, wrote the following sentences: "'The Trial of Sherlock Holmes' finally gets to the actual trial as Holmes is charged with murdering a man in a locked room in a house guarded by police officers. It looks like there’s no possible way that Holmes is innocent and, yet, Moore and Reppion do a good job of setting things up so that no one actually believes he is guilty. Like the readers, everyone in the comic seems to think that the trial will allow Holmes to prove his innocence and solve the mystery in a very public and dramatic fashion. How he explains his innocence is what this issue revolves around and, while a little long-winded, it is intricate and fits with everything that’s come before."

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CBR Review: Sherlock Holmes #2

I recently reviewed Sherlock Holmes #2 for CBR and, in the process, wrote the following sentences: "It’s difficult at this time to judge what scenes are unnecessary since future issues will reveal what was important and what wasn’t, but there’s far too much effort put into mimicking the cinematic effect of following a minor character from one location to another in order to bridge scenes. These transitions add nothing to the story, except filler that allows Moore and Reppion to drag events out. And, in one case, the transition leads to a scene that seems entirely unrelated to the plot."

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CBR Review: Sherlock Holmes #1

I recently reviewed Sherlock Holmes #1 for CBR and, in the process, wrote the following sentences: "The ensuing discussion seems aimed at filling the pages and holding off the end of this issue as long as possible, because it’s the shocking cliffhanger —- and reads exactly as such. Moore and Reppion mimic the writing style of Doyle well enough but, as I said, seem so beholden to his formula as to not produce an interesting comic. While this sort of set up works well in prose, for a comic it falls flat and crawls at a glacial pace."

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