Jones had two books out this week, Checkmate (the last issue of the series) and The War That Time Forgot. Neither were any good. Amazingly enough, though War That Forgot has fighter pilots and heroes from multiple wars and time periods, Checkmate was the more ridiculous of the two. First off, this story started off seeming slightly interesting, and quickly turned into a complete and utter disregard for anything involving the ACTUAL cast of Checkmate. Which is sad, considering how fantastic Checkmate had been under the skilled hand of Greg Rucka. The most thing in this issue was the giant dragon that appears and sends out winged goblins dealing out biblical plagues turns out to be! DUM DUM DUUUUUM! SATAN! Yep.
War has been written terribly from the beginning. I mean, we're talking about what has always been a great concept (much like Marvel's Savage Land) but is written terribly by Jones. I mean, Tomahawk fighting a dinosaur? That should be pure gold. Instead, with Jones, it falls flat. Additionally, and this doesn't seem to be the fault of the artist, there seems to be storytelling left out between some of the transitions, leaving the read a bit confused, to say the least.
I'm really not sure how Bruce Jones got these assignments. Checkmate would have done great under Eric Trautman, who co-wrote a couple of the storylines with Rucka. And there's far more creative and interesting writers to tackle The War That Time Forgot that had the free time and would have handled it much better.
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