“The first few issues were great. It’s totally different from the movie, tonally. The mask kind of turns people into an ultraviolent cartoon character in our world. It’s super entertaining and weird.
Then it turns into a comic book. Which I don’t normally mean as an insult, but in this case I’ll make an exception. It becomes this story that I don’t really understand, just a bunch of people running around with the mask at different times, which I guess is supposed to have its own personality, but then sort of reflects the personality of the wearer, too? Not clear. Then we get a villain, which is sort of dumb. It felt like the writer wanted to give the mask someone challenging to fight with, but that never seemed what this book was about to me. I think having this one weird thing in the real world was fun, but the more the world seemed to lean into what the mask was doing, the less interested I was. “