Another new week and more new comics! Welcome back and here's our picks of the weeks from amongst the flood, enjoy!- Editor
Cyber Force #1
(Image/Top Cow)
Story : Marc Silvestri & Matt
Hawkins
Art : Khoi Pham
(Reviewed by Akshay Dhar)
It's interesting to see the relaunch of
Cyber Force in the wake of all the other Top Cow Universe titles
being given the revamp after all the madness over in Darkness,
Witchblade and Artifacts.
I've been a big fan of most of the Top
Cow books for a long time, but somehow Cyber Force never quite caught
on as much – I keep meaning to sit down and reread the lot properly
or some such, but never gotten around to it and now I'm glad!
This new volume of creator (and Top Cow
founder) Silvestri's flagship team-book actually is off to a very
promising start.
THE GOOD in all this is that we've got
an intriguing new storyline that I think would be fun regardless of
whether or not you've ever read the series before – creating a
dystopic new future for us all that carries echoes of concerns we all
have about the future of our world and society and throwing in a
healthy amount of intrigue, mystery, twists, action and concepts. By
the end I was very much wanting
more. The ART also falls almost
entirely in the 'Good' section for me, Pham does an excellent job
with the look and feel of it all and be it a party, a sewer or a
street fight – his panels all look great and carry that distinctive
Top Cow style.
THE BAD, and there is some of it, is
that the concepts while intriguing veer a little too close to being
too in-your-face. Overpopulation, food shortage, conspiracy and such
are all familiar tropes that are (along with others) crammed into the
setup here and we even have the runaway teen heroine with the loved
one/parent (Mom here) who works for the big-bad. This could all feel
too obvious and bloated if the story is not developed carefully
So far I'm feeling the need to give
them the benefit of the doubt and so I'm going to eagerly await #2
and see if this creative team can deliver on all the promise of this
debut issue.
SCORE : 7 / 10
DC Universe Presents #13
(DC)
Story : Marc Andreyko
Art : Robson Rocha, Oclair Albert
(Reviewed by Anant Sagar)
Black Lightning and Blue Devil. Both
characters I’m familiar, yet unfamiliar with.
Black lightning, a black teacher, with
a somewhat racist name. Granted his lighting actually is black but
still.
Blue Devil, quite possibly has the
origin story similar to Spiderman. (Uncle Ben! NOOO!!/Grandpa!
NOOO!!) He’s also this acrobatic quip machine. But there is
something about him that makes me smile. He’s nutty and fun.
It’s a good issue; I mean it doesn’t
explain much of what in God’s name is going on!! But it’s well
drawn and decently written. My major problem is, they should have
spent some time telling us more about the heroes and what is
happening in the issue. It is confusing.
But seeing that this is a self
contained limited run, I guess sacrifices must be made.
Enjoyable, I hope they expand on this
story.
SCORE : 6.5 / 10
G.I.Joe : Snake Eyes #18
(IDW)
Story : Chuck Dixon
Art : Alex Cal
(Reviewed by Anant Sagar)
Target: Snake Eyes, part 2
This issue does a fantastic job of
keeping things tight and action packed.
Snake Eyes in all his glory jumping
around and kicking Cobra a**.
So to bring you to speed, Snake has
left the Joe’s and re-joined the Arashikage ninjas. He’s been
branded a traitor by the G.I.Joe’s and is now being hunted by
Scarlett and her team. Hence Target: Snake Eyes.
The best part is that even though this
flows in continuity with the G.I.Joe story, you don’t really need
to read them to know what’s going on.
The Soft Master makes a big appearance
with Serpentor.
The story is engaging. The Arashikage
and Cobra at odds, constantly trying to one up the other with the
Joe’s stuck in the middle (so to speak).
The art style is pretty good. Loads of
depth thanks to the excellent shading.
An action packed issue that’s easy to
read, even if you aren’t completely up to date with the series.
There is more focus on Snake Eyes over Storm Shadow, but who cares
with all that action.
SCORE : 8 / 10
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