Week In Review : Before Watchman Minutemen #1 + Mighty Thor Annual #1 + Pantha #1 + Voltron Year One # 3

AT LAST IT BEGINS!!
This week's reviews include the highly anticipated and hotly debated kick-off to Before Watchmen by DC comics and we bring it to you along with much more!
Enjoy!

Before Watchman : Minutemen #1 (DC)

Story & Art : Darwyn Cooke

(Reviewed by Anirudh Singh)

Alright, alright, the argument of intellectual property matters for naught to me in comic books. Hence, we shall not have it here. Instead we shall talk about Minutemen, one of my favourite parts about the Watchmen storyline that got all too brief a time in the limelight. 

This first installment from Before Watchmen starts with the story of the Minutemen, narrated through the eyes of Hollis Mason (a.k.a Night Owl). The writing is a little word heavy and Cooke is definitely no Alan Moore, but the art more than makes up for it. And eventually the initial awkwardness of the writing tumbles into a smoother narrative that gels very well with the artwork.

Darwyn Cooke does a marvelous job of bringing back the magic of the Silver Age. With glorious colours and art we get a sneak peek into the comings and goings of the famous mystery men of the day: Captain Metropolis, Nite Owl, Sally Jupiter and Hooded Justice, a vigilante adept at inspiring terror in the criminal element... and even the Comedian gets a brief flourish. Before Watchmen : Minutemen #1 sets the perfect platform for the series and the titles to follow. 

Week In Review : Supreme #64 + The Spider #1 + Voltron Year One #2

Welcome back for more reviews folks! 

After the DC #1 overload yesterday, we've got some great new titles reviewed for you so dive right on in!

Supreme #64 (Image)

Story : Erik Larsen

Art : Erik Larsen & Cory Hamscher

(Reviewed by Akshay Dhar)

This was a very conflicting issue.
For those of you here last month, the last issue was the series' relaunch after the abrupt cancellation of the series right in the middle of Alan Moore's now-legendary run on the character. One, just one script by him remained unproduced and lay in the archives... the misty haze of legend surrounding it and every fanboy and fangirl who knew of it waited for the day it would finally see the light.

Then, Erik Larsen came on board to relaunch the series.

The good news is that he is a fantastic artist and arguably the most dedicated and consistent of the original Image founders, his work on his own series – Savage Dragon – being some legendary stuff itself for a writer/artist.

Anyway, after a pretty decent return last month with Erik on art duties for Moore's script, this month we finally get the first non-Alan script and the one that shows what they new season will be made off... and I gotta tell you, I'm mighty confused as to whether I love it or hate it.

Week In Review: Danger Club #1 / O.M.A.C #8 / Supreme #63 / Voltron Year One #1 (DOUBLE REVIEWED)

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.