Webcomic Review: The Adventures of Ace Hoyle – AceHoyle.com
I was recently asked to do a “100% honest” review of the relatively new Webcomic, “The Adventures of Ace Hoyle” on AceHoyle.com. After checking this site out, I could tell this wasn’t the usual Webcomic site that I have visited in the past.
What exactly is AceHoyle.com all about? Well according to the FAQ, AceHoyle.com is:
AceHoyle.com is the official website of the Ace Hoyle comics series. A combination of earlier online publishing models, AceHoyle.com mixes the advertising structures of traditional online gambling portals with professionally produced articles, news and comics to create one of the Web’s first profitable consumer publications based solely on the Internet.
The “Ace Hoyle” character is defined in the FAQ as:
Ace Hoyle is a comic-book character loosely based on all the slick professional poker players we’ve met over the years.
Being a fan of poker since Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker in 2003, this sounded like interesting enough combination that I decided to give this Webcomic a try.
With that all out of the way, let’s get on to the review.
I am not sure what I expected to find while reading this Webcomic, but I have to say that I felt like I had missed the point after I got through reading it all. I have read through it a couple of times now and I really couldn’t get a sense of where the plot was going, and I didn’t really see much that “grabbed” me enough to want to continue reading it.
I am no poker expert, but I had trouble with some of the panels showing the poker tournament as I saw things that I am pretty sure would have never been allowed in the real thing; like the two Russian brothers talking to each other in Russian, and letting someone that is a known trick card player to be a dealer. That last one really killed the credibility of the whole comic for me. The subplot with the main character’s girlfriend really didn’t fit in at all in my opinion either. The one thing I thought was spot on was the announcers covering the poker tournament; they were portrayed exactly like the ones I always see on ESPN
The art is ok; but I liked the black and white with a hit of color method that was used throughout, just like Frank Miller did in the Sin City stories. I actually liked the art a lot better with the original artist Tomas Batha, than when Edgar Arce that took over in episode 10, but that is just my opinion.
Overall, this Webcomic is nothing really to get excited about and I doubt I will check it out again after this review.
Full Disclosure: I was contracted to write an honest review of the Webcomic featured here, and was paid in full on May 12th, 2010
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