'68 Scars #1
(Image Comics)
Story : Mark Kidwell
Art : Nat Jones
(Reviewed by Anubhav DasGupta)
I didn’t know what the hell ’68
Scars was before I read the comic. Turns out it’s about Zombies in
the year 1968, at the height of the Vietnam war.
It starts out horribly with an unfunny,
politically incorrect gag. It somewhat improves afterwards.
There are three stories in this comic.
Two take place in Vietnam during the height of the war, and one
concerning two Chinese immigrants takes place in Chinatown, New York.
All of these aren’t very good, merely passable, and one of them is
absolutely awful.
Each panel is cluttered with a lot of
dialogue, none of which is particularly good, with most of them
falling into the category of “it gets the job done”. The art is
just okay. It surely would have benefited from a better inking and
colouring job. While the inking is somewhat passable, the colouring
is just horrendous. Everything looks dull and bland. It tries to be
gritty by borrowing the colour palette of every Vietnam movie ever,
but fails miserably in that aspect. In my opinion, it would have
fared better if it were a black and white comic.
