Hey folks! Welcome to another week of new comics and this week we again split our review into two because we just had too many comics to review (it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it!) and so we bring you three spectacular new comics today:
All-Star Western #6
Story: Justin
Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti
Art: Moritat
(w/ Gabriel Bautista on colours)
(Review by
Akshay Dhar)
There is little anyone can say about this series except that it is
without a doubt one of the best things to come out of DC's “New 52”
relaunch.
Jonah Hex has always been one of the most popular cult characters and
under the pen of Gray and Palmiotti, one of the better non
capes-n-tights comics on the market consistently. But this relaunch
that brought Hex to ye-olde-Gotham back in the day, bringing the
rugged outdoorsman and vagabond into the confines of a city really
put things in a different direction and allowed a whole new kind of
Jonah Hex story, mingling the standard western adventure he is known
for with a hint of the just-south-of-normal that was a hallmark of
his tales for a long time.
We get a conclusion to the big mystery this time around as Hex and
his unintentional partner Dr. Arkham race to learn the fate of the
kidnapped children of Gotham and fight a giant demonic bat along the
way – just another day in the life of Hex. With a satisfying ending
that isn't quite an ending but a nice and neat lead-in to the next
issue that gives us a sweet little teaser of what to expect and a
whole new guest star/partner for Hex, I would say I'm loving the way
this book is being handled and hope it stays around at least for a
while.
The back-up story (another comic practice I miss!) stars the
mysterious lady known as the Barbary Ghost as she continues on her
hunt for vengeance and so far has been well told and the character
fairly nicely put forward so this promises to be another welcome
addition to monthly reading for those who like these hardy frontier
characters in this wild world.
The art is without reproach in both stories and the combination of
art and colouring carries a wonderfully faded grittiness to it that
really brings out every mood and facet of the excellent layouts and
detailing and I look forward to much more of the same in issues
ahead!
SCORE : 8.5 /
10
No Place Like Home #1
Story: Angelo
Tirotto
Art: Richard
Jordan
(Review by
Mayank Khurana)
Image is kicking all kinds of ass right
now with titles like : invincible, walking dead , chew , Morning
Glory , Blue Estate , Prophet , Glory etc etc.. almost two much
awesomeness!! With the news of new titles coming out of recently
concluded Image Expo, I feel sorry for my wallet.
No Place like home could be another
winner for Image. It is supposed to be a re-imagining of wizard of
Oz, but make no mistakes there are no yellow bricks, perky girls ,
tinmen or cowardly lions. No place like home opens up with a gruesome
incident which causes Our Protagonist "Dee" to return to
her native place. She is soon caught up in a mystery which from the
last page suggests is not going to be your father's interpretation of
wizard of Oz. I am not revealing more details about the story because
it is something that you should enjoy for yourself. I have a slight
complaint though, the parallels between wizard of Oz and No place
like home are not explicitly clear. But the story is just beginning
and we may get more Oz elements in the future. The artist Richard
Jordan's work reminds me of Darick Robertson (Transmetropolitan / The
Boys) is all the good ways.
Overall , a good but cautious start .
Looking forward to reading the next issue.
SCORE : 7 /
10
The Flash #6
Story/Art: Francis Manapul
(writing; art) and Brian Buccellato (writing; colours)
(Review by Rijul Rauth)
Wow. I mean, I've seen good Flash
comics for years now, but they've always succeeded on the matter of
their writing, not their art (which has been good, but not
unparalleled.) Here, on the other hand, we have a masterpiece. There
are three panels which I would spend good money on if DC blew them up
and sold them as posters.
The story deals with Captain Cold, the
iconic villain, suddenly gaining new (what else? cold-based) powers
and freezing up the river, trapping Iris and Patty in a yacht stuck
atop a column of ice. The Flash then races around, trying to stop
him. The story is told with a number of flashbacks, detailing Barry
and Patty's recent trip out of town; Dr. Elias warning the Flash not
to use his powers too much to risk tearing a hole in the fabric of
reality; how Barry, Patty and Iris came to be on the yacht; and
finally, the reason for Cold's newfound hatred of the Flash, though
not the source of his new powers.
The art is, as mentioned above,
fantastic. It's a deviation from what normal superhero art looks
like, and it works for the character. When the unmasked Cold coming
off a little bit cartoonish is your greatest gripe, you know what
you're getting is bona fide classic art. Buccellato's colours are
mostly muted, giving a toned-down look to the whole thing (as opposed
to the mega-bright colours on any other cape title) that works,
somehow giving the whole thing an air of... real life? I dunno, but
it just seems to leave you looking at the pages again and again.
Flash Fact: You can tell a good Barry
Allen story. You can even tell one that will rank up there with the
best of Waid and Johns Flash stories.
SCORE : 10 / 10
Hope you guys enjoyed that, we'll have more of this week's comics being reviewed shortly including Fantastic Four #603 and the recent Witchblade/Red Sonja cross-over!
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