Finally finished reading beast the primordial and the whole thing feels like a misfire, as though someone missed the entire point of beuty and the beast's Gaston vs Beast as a clever subversion of the cosmetic aspect of heroes vs monsters, completly failing to not that if you ignore the cosmetic Beast is obviously the protagonist on the road back to humanity/heroism and gaston the monster
It really does feel like their should have been a book about Heroes in the classical sense as a mythical heroes with a onyx path spin with the beasts being the antagonist and this shitty book is the supplementy antagonist book. Which would have been a far more interesting venue for exploration than CoD/WoD 'inhuman predator as protagonist' has already explored multiple times. At the very least the beasts should be spawned by the heroes due to some sort of failure on the heroes behalf-a beowulf type creating a Tyrant dragon when he aquires and abuses his secular power, Batman spawning the Ravenger Joker due to his neglect of everything but his war Which would ad a far more tragic undercurrent to the proceedings especially if the monster was once a loved one. Imagine the pain generated by a lover turned devil or a child turned fiend. You could even takes this a step further as the heroes negative traits build up he becomes more a villain than the villain while the beast gradually assumes more and more noble traits, perhaps reaching the point after some titanic struggle where the Beast usurps the role of hero and the Hero assumes the mantle of the beast he once created by accident- aformentioned Gaston and the beast being the obvious example. Angels Daniel Holtz vs the now redemed protagonist for another.
It also doesnt help pretty much everything the beasts do is done elsewhere. These damned things bring nothing new to the table.
