E.X.O.: The Legend of Wale Williams Volume 1 by Roye Okupe

​I’ve visited YouNeek YouNiverse before with Okupe’s WindMaker. It’s sort of like Wakanda expanded and trying to be Marvel for African-centric stories and African superheroes. So from a purely representational perspective, it’s an awesome concept.
But just as comics, it leaves a lot to be desired. Unless you’re really into this sort of thing and by this sort of thing one means: cheap video game like graphics and plots that read like superhero cartoons with pages that look like stills from superhero cartoons.
To be fair, Okupe tried here with Wale Williams – from the conventionally alliterative name to borrowing heavily from such heavies of the Marvel Universe as Iron Man and The Cyborg. But mostly that just made the final product seem unoriginal and kind of inferior as a pastiche.
I don’t mean to be ripping this, not really, it’s fine, has a kind of blandly slick or slickly bland entertaining quality to it. And I’m not really a reader or fan of traditional superhero fare, so there’s that to consider.
This book was way longer than anticipated, but had the decency to read quickly enough – oh so many fight scenes. Overall, indifferent, may or may not read more. Library seems to be getting them and sometimes there is a place and time for a mindless read.