I think I may have still liked Creature Tech - because, really, it has so much going for it - if the only problem was Dr. Ong. But TenNapel doesn't trust his readers to understand what's going on, and from time to time the characters pause to state the obvious. I may be going out of a limb here, but I suspect that when an alien creature has just pierced your heart, you don't pause to state "it has pierced my heart!" before collapsing. And when you stumble unto a highway and bright lights approach you - as is clearly indicated by the beautiful art shown above - you're not going to say "bright lights!" This is devastating to suspension of disbelief. Suddenly, you're not in a wondrous world where work is reached by a plant/worm tunnel; you're sitting in a chair, reading a book.
Creature Tech is not all bad. Actually, it's mostly good, often excellent, and many people love it. But the occasional splashes of "bad" paint, for me, the whole thing a rather depressing shade of mediocre.
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