Danger Club #1
(Image)
Story : Landry Q. Walker
Art : Eric Jones
(Reviewed by Akshay Dhar)
F*** Yeah!!!
If there's a new superhero comic to try
and a new world to explore – this would be it!
It's only the first issue.
I was amused in the first couple of
pages which are done very nicely like a good old silver age comic
that give us character names (like Kid Monstro and Apollo) and a feel
for how this new world works with the superheroes that are like the
Teen Titans of this world.
Then it throws it all out the window.
Picture a bunch of characters that are
like alternate-universe-young-adult-versions of all your favourites
like Kid Vigilante (Batman!), Apollo (Superman, duh!), Fearless (Nick
Fury), etc... Now picture an Earth where all the superheroes left to
combat some great threat in space months ago and now... well, lets
just say that things are not looking good and Apollo has lost his
marbles more than a little. I'm not saying the characters are direct
rip-offs, but one can see parallels and archetypes at play here when
creating the style and characteristics of all of them.
Now before anyone thinks this is just
another Irredeemable or such, guess again. By the time you
reach the end of the issue, I promise that you'll be sitting there
with the “WTF!?” look plastered on your face as you realise what
just happened and then be getting junkie jitters that you now have to
wait a month for the next one! Dammit!
Landry Walker has produced something
here that to me hearkens back to Mark Millar when he was still
a good, pure comic writer and not the Hollywood w**** that he's
become now, making mediocre and crap comics catering to the lowest
common denominator. This is good, tight storytelling and accompanied
by truly excellent art from Eric Jones that really brings the
characters to life and looks and feels just right for the story being
told. His character designs too are good choices that I think will
really be appreciated by fans.
Overall, one of the most entertaining
books I've read in the past couple of months and one of my favourites
of the recent waves of new series' that Image has been launching. If
enough fans get a chance to try it out, this will definitely be one
hell of a feather in Images cap! GO READ IT!
SCORE : 9 / 10
O.M.A.C #8
(DC)
Story & Art : Dan Didio &
Keith Giffen
(Reviewed by Rijul Raut)
Omit, Mutilate, And Cancel.
I really like the fact that Dan DiDio
is fair. Despite him being Co-Publisher of DC Comics, he didn't ask
for any special treatment, and his book is being cancelled just like
all the other poor performers. That said, it is a damn shame that
this is coming to an end. I really liked this book, from all the
continuity nods to obscure characters like Dubbilex, Amazing-Man, and
Tawky Tawny.
O.M.A.C is a high-concept comic book,
containing our hero, a man who turns into a blue, mohawked, robotic
giant, being hunted by agents of a spy organization employing
light-based weaponry, and fighting them inside Mt. Rushmore while the
sentient satellite controlling him is attacked by the leader of the
same spy organization. It is a wild ride indeed. There is nothing
that can go wrong here, and indeed nothing does. The story ends on a
cliffhanger that maddens me, and so I hope to see the character of
Kevin Kho show up in some future series. Maybe Frankenstein, seeing
as it's a thematic fit and they've crossed over before.
The art is not classically what you'd
call good, but I love it to death. The pencils are rough and thick,
and the inks unsubtle, which combine to give it a somewhat likable
look that appears deceptively simple. Nitpicking: In one panel, OMAC
appears to have merely four fingers on on hand. Seriously. That is
the extent of my art criticism.
SCORE : 8.5 / 10
Supreme #63
(Image)
Story : Alan Moore
Art : Erik Larsen and Cory Hamscher
(Reviewed by Mayank Khurana)
Whoa! You can bet that if someone
asked me to name a cancelled series that would see a revival in next
five years I wouldn’t have guessed "Supreme". For the
uninitiated Supreme was the brainchild of Rob Liefeld (
Yukk!!) and started out as a pastiche of Superman. He
was actually the antithesis on Superman : mean and selfish. A
superhero you would hate to call a superhero. But it all changed when
Alan “ the god” Moore took over Supreme and changed the title
into a celebration of 50+ years of superman history.
He threw whatever was done to Supreme
till then out of the window and charted a new course. A course that
would be imitated by Grant Morrison in All
Star Superman. Yes folks, much as I love Morrison’s run
on All-Star Superman,
I have to give credit where it is due. Alan Moore had some brilliant
ideas twenty years ago that we are seeing reverberations from even
today (case in point: DC’s Watchmen revival) such as Supreme.
When Supreme was cancelled Alan Moore
was in the midst of his magnum opus. Unfortunately we never got to
see it get completed.
With Supreme #63, Rob liefield’s
extreme studio brings an unpublished script by Alan Moore to us. And
let me tell you , its a winner! No matter how long it has been since
I have read my last Supreme comic, I was instantly pulled into the
story. Thats the strength of the master. Thats Alan Moore for you.
He quickly gets you up to speed with
what has happened in Supreme so new readers are not lost. He also
revisits the concepts of Supremecy and OMNIMAN, which
is Moore’s vehicle to tell a story a story within a story, a
metafictional narrative so as to say.
If you have read any story by Alan
Moore , you know this comic is worth owning or at the very least,
reading! I am not going to give away the details of the story but
suffice to say we get a lot of Dax Darious in this issue , and
when i say a lot, I mean a LOT!
This might be your last chance to get a
superhero story by Alan Moore. This fact alone makes it worthy to be
in your collection.
Irrespective of whether you are a new
or a returning fan, you are in for a very silver age-y treat that
wold appeal to your modern sensibilities.
I am just worried about the next issue.
What happens when Alan Moore is not behind Supreme? Can this revival
sustain itself. I would be back to check it out. I urge you to do the
same
SCORE : 8 / 10
Voltron Year One #1
(Dynamite Entertainment) - DOUBLE REVIEW!!
Story : Brandon Thomas
Art : Craig Cermak
(Reviewed by Anupam Sarkar)
Before going on
with the review, please people, do not judge the book with it's
cover. There is practically no Giant sized mecha robo in this issue.
Voltron was a
pretty famous show back in the 90's. It had everything a kid back
then would've wanted- small robots fusing to form huge robots,
awesome action scenes and finally no good story whatsoever.
Having said that,
I never expected to find this issue interesting.
Voltron
Year One features backstory
of the Voltron Force before they came to Planet Arus, when they were
known as Space Explorer
Squadron
#686 aka the best squad in the entire universe.
The
captain, Sven lacks in confidence and is always wondering whether he
is a bad captain or not.
Writer
Brandon Thomas does a great job by eliminating all the silly elements
(Space mice, etc) of the original stuff and going with a good story.
The
artist, Craig Cermak, did a good job with visuals. My only problem
was that sometimes faces and emotions were hard to recognize and
that's where colorist Adriano Lucas does an awesome job. I
mean, without him one wouldn't even be able to recognize who is Sven
and who is Kieth.
Overall,
if you are looking on spending your time reading a comic with
somewhat good story and beautiful visuals, then this is your thing.
SCORE : 8 / 10
(Reviewed by Rijul Raut)
Warning:
I never knew much about Voltron except the fact that multiple mecha
combined to form bigger mecha, so I have no sense of perspective
about how this fits into Voltron canon.
Summary:
A team of special agents led by our protagonist, Sven, take on what
they think is a routine hostage extraction, but things go wrong, as
dictated by the theory of narrative causality.
I
didn't really like this. There are so many better ways to write a
black op, but Thomas really doesn't take any risks, and thus falls
flat on his face. The team (Space Explorer Squadron #686, who have
"never failed a mission") is made up of those same cliches
that inhabit every other. It's led by Sven, your characteristic
#SERIOUSLEADER type, who's internal monologue is fixated entirely on
the fact that his team will fail if he's not watchful. We have also
Keith, Lance, and Hunk, neither of whom receives any
characterization, apart from Keith not being able to sleep before a
mission. The team is rounded out by Pidge, the counterintelligence
guy, who is a direct adaptation of the Superintelligent Kid™
("absolutely fearless", "brilliant tactical mind",
"youngest graduate ever from the Space Explorer Academy").
The
art is nice, which is the only good thing about this comic. It has a
nice, clean style that fits the futuristic setting quite well. Cermak
does suffer from same-face syndrome slightly, but not to any
meaningful extent. The inks are well-done and clean.
SCORE : 5.5 / 10
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