The Chrononauts are back. What adventures await time travelers this time? We check.
In the first volume of Chrononauts, we met a brilliant duo of explorers who made their amazing discoveries fun. What are these discoveries? As the title suggests, they are about time travel. Until now, they have only managed to travel into the past, but in the second volume of the series the situation changes: the future is open!
The album doesn't start particularly for the main characters. Corbin Quinn and Danny Reilly set off into the future ... but they fail again, and once again have to prove their genius to construct a mechanism in the old days to bring them home. Which does not prevent you from experiencing the charms of the times in which they find themselves. It turns out, however, that subsequent failures are the result of external interference. More specifically, the future and their former master. They receive an offer from him and, together with their relatives, set off into the future to be the guardians of law and order.
At this point, we get an almost classic anti-utopia, in which everything looks beautiful, but in reality we are dealing with an oppressive and top-down system. Success comes at a cost, and the duo are quickly put to the test that will determine their future. In addition, not everything will depend directly on them. We also have a bit of moralizing and playing with time paradoxes, but it is nothing that has not been told before ... yes, several dozen times at least.
Mark Millar is quite good at dealing with closed stories and juggling well-worn plot patterns, but this time he did not fully live up to the task. He created a story interesting in some places, but nevertheless duplicating plot and genre cliches. Compared to the first volume of Chrononauts, there was also no flash of the main characters. Rock'n'roll scientists are only fragments of brilliant, attention-stealing. Millar still manages to create a light, pop-culture-based story, but the magic that was in the first volume is gone. Maybe it is true that you cannot enter the same river twice?
Graphics are also worse. Sean Murphy was able to give the whole thing dynamics, and characters of character. Meanwhile, Eric Canete, who illustrates this volume, is ... more conservative. Theoretically, he draws everything according to art, but it lacks the claw.
The second installment of Chrononauts is still a nice, entertaining and action story, using popular motifs, but not necessarily processing them in an original way. The weaker assessment of the volume results mainly from the very good predecessor: against this background, the continuation simply looks pale..