The comic enabled dignified, empowered, positive representations of blackness deployed on a global level: Black visual pleasure and desire for escapism through fantasy cinema recognized and served. (reverseshot.org)
A painful reminder of what fantasy cinema was like before the Lord of the Rings trilogy re-wrote the rules. (rottentomatoes.com)
The colors (a mixture of the candy colors of golden age fantasy cinema and the muted hues of nostalgia) are lush and the hazy scenes of the stuck - in - fifties small town feel like some misty - eyed time warp with a few weird twists. (seanax.com)