TRADE COLLECTION REVIEW: The DECORUM HC, addictive world-building in action
The book, which collects all eight issues from the Hickman and Huddleston series, is due out April 27, 2022.
Read MoreIn DECORUM #4, Mike Huddleston shines - REVIEW
By Larry Jorash — We see a triumphant return this week to the world-building that writer Jonathan Hickman is known for. As has become a norm with this series, this oversized issue features multiple pages of dazzling art and infographics…before we even reach the narrative. Decorum #4 then takes an eccentric turn and drops us into a cold open sequence, and once again the reader is asked to swim in the deep of this young book’s heavy lore.
Read MoreREVIEW: Decorum #3 by Hickman and Huddleston
By Larry Jorash — Decorum is a book without traditional narration or linear plot. Jonathan Hickman seems to have inspired himself within the confines of Marvel’s 2019 blockbusters, “House of X,” and ,“Powers of X.”
Read MoreDecorum #2 - REVIEW of Jonathan Hickman's new book
By Jacob Cordas — Jonathan Hickman, perhaps more than any other comic writer working today, plays a long game. Minor details in an early issue will pay off massive dividends years later. Character choices that seem off will often become character defining who knows how many issues later. This normally creates a unique problem when reviewing an early issue of any of his series…how do you say if something is good or bad when it necessitates knowing how it ends to judge? Is judgement possible or even valid this early in the game?
Read MoreREVIEW: Decorum #1 is a fearless and bold multimedia story experiment
By Zack Quaintance — Decorum #1 is an interesting comic, in that early on it feels more like a multimedia storytelling experience than it does a traditional graphic sequential story. This book is top heavy with the mythos, history, details, and even language of a sci-fi world that is brand new to all readers. As a result, I found myself a bit disoriented through the first two acts or so. I could tell that there were skilled storytellers at work with big ambition, but I couldn’t quite get myself to a solid point where I was sure what they were trying to do here, or, perhaps most importantly, what I should care about within this new complex world they were building.
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