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Demon Knights #2 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Diógenes Neves (penciller), Oclair Albert (inker), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist)

The Story: You know, the T-bones of T-Rexes make s’good eatin’.

The Review: Anyone who’s watched almost any episode of Seinfield  knows that when you have a group of characters that vibrant and diverse, you can be entertained watching them do pretty much nothing.  And that is pretty much what Seinfield fans did, episode after episode, for years.  While the show’s lack of sentimentality made it a bit harder for the characters to capture hearts, nevertheless, a lot of people became attached to the sheer force of their personalities.

Demon Knights has just about the most entertaining and engaging cast of all the new DC titles, with the added bonus of being set against a particularly fertile ground for imaginative storytelling.  If you have a comic whose opening includes a two-page splash of fire-breathing dinosaurs in armor, and Vandal Savage exclaiming with a manic gleam, “Excellent!  I haven’t eaten one of these in centuries!”—well, something’s going right for you, that’s for sure.

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