BRZRKR Vol. 2: Volume 2

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by Keanu Reeves and Matt Kindt is a graphic novel which follows an immortal warrior known as B who after wandering the world for centuries may finally have found a refuge, working for the US government. I understand I can change my preference through my account settings or unsubscribe directly from any marketing communications at any time. BRZRKR already has all the Conan and Wolverine (and other eternal life characters like Highlander and vampires) tropes and now we add some Indiana Jones and wait is this a love story?I'm not entirely sure why they are still sending him on missions but the US government/military are definitely NOT pulling the strings here. Well, I will say this - if you asked me if I would rather read a “comic book full of action movie cliches” or a “boring” comic - the former is always going to win. When, as a young woman, I watched Much Ado About Nothing, it certainly wasn't to see Kenneth Brannagh on the big screen. I was perhaps a bit kinder than I should have been, but in all fairness, there was always a chance it was going.

Following another commercially down period, Reeves made a successful comeback by playing the titular assassin in the John Wick film series, beginning in 2014. He played John Constantine in Constantine (2005) and starred in the romantic drama The Lake House (2006), the science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), and the crime thriller Street Kings (2008).

We found out in the first book that B (that’s Keanu Reeves’ “character”) was born of a lightning bolt but, rather than accept that his dad was a literal flash in the pan, he decides to find out if the lightning bolt came from someone - something? Although there are new plot points added, it feels like each new issue only adds the equivalent of 4 or 5 pages of actual plot content. This second volume features a lot of witless blather, flashbacks aplenty, and gore by the bucketload, all of which amounts to little development of what we saw in the first book, which was flashbacks aplenty and gore by the bucketload with B murmuring something about wanting to die and/or finding out his origins and purpose for being. I'm not expecting more than a berserker-type immortal asking its questions about why it's alive and still alive.