Hercules #6 // Review
One of the most legendary heroes in all of history makes his descent into the underworld to save his family. It’s not the first time someone tried to enter.Hade, but this time might just be a little bit more complicated than previous trips as it involves the greatest gods of Olympus in Hercules #6. Writer Elliott Kaplan, artist George Kambadais and the coloring team of Julia Giacomino and Simonson Guida continue a tale of ancient Greece, as seen through the eyes of Hollywood animators from a few decades ago. It’s a fun extension of a property which continues to bear some appeal.
Hercules isn’t all that aware of everything that he’s going to have to deal with. Sharon isn’t real happy about the situation either. Actually kind of pace his job. But what is he going to do about it? There are a lot of problems with entering the underworld and many of them are going to be coming face-to-face with the heroes in question. but Hercules is going to have to face the sphinx if he’s going to be able to free his father from the perils of the underworld. It’s kind of an awkward position to be in to try to save the king of the gods from certain doom.
Kaplan maintains the overall tone of the Disney version of the Hercules legend. The anachronistic dialogue in comedy work pretty well. The overall feel of the series continues to have it tone kind of a peel as the characters continue to move towards their destinations. It’s kind of a fun journey with some notable WWIt’s. It’s remarkably interesting to see how it all comes together. And it’s only a matter of time before, the story begins to open up on a larger scale. Certainly, it’s been successful enough. It would be interesting to see where they go when they finally break free of the confines of her they had been previous entries.
They are team nails, the visuals of the world and question quite well. It all feels very well defined and there’s something to be said for a combination of different elements to relieve, called him out into the animated movie. Characters are drawn so distinctly from that character design, that you can hear the voice actors doing, when the voice actors do even though this is an animation. They’ve done a remarkably good job of bringing across the feel of that animated film in a way that feels like it could be steals from a movie that just never got made.
The challenge in the future is going to be to try to find ways to expand the legends. If that would be a ring too far from where it is that things need to be in order to release still feel suitably Olympian. It’s going to be kind of weird seeing them try to do that. Although it’s definitely going to be something that needs to happen if a series is going to continue onto much more.
