Love Everlasting
Love Everlasting (2021) Written by Tom King Drawn by Elsa Charretier The first in my ongoing Tom King reappraisal is one of his most recent series. I wanted to pick this, because a lot of my previous disdain had to do with King's reinventions and reinterpretations of superheroes. So what did I think of the first independent thing I'd read from him and my first review in this series? It is... ok. The concept is really great. A woman is forced to fall in love with new people in new time periods/scenarios only for the romances to fall apart tragically and a mysterious person to kill the woman and reset the loop. The time periods and scenarios are all sends up of classic romance comics tropes which is done really well. The artwork by Charretier is very classic looking, almost Darwyn Cooke-esque. The biggest problem for me is that despite the great premise and artwork, overall the book just wasn't that fun to read. The repetitive cycle establishes the unique feeling of t