From the random stack of unread comics. I skipped yesterday, so as of the publication of this review, I have 37 days to go before we leave Vietnam, and 31 comics left in the stack. Only six more "skip days" if I want to finish before we depart. And that's not counting graphic novels from my school library and from my unread books shelf that will also get reviewed here.
Title: Imaginary
Publisher: Radical Comics
Date: May, 2008
Writer: Sam Sarkar, Steve Moore, Steve Niles
Artist: Jim Steranko, Admira Wuaya, Alexander Alexandrov, DCWJ, Garrie Gastonny, Henryz, Jennyson, Junkman, Leos "Okita" Ng, Mr. B, Rub-A-Duck, Svetlin Velinov, Wraithdt, YJL, ZID
This is a Free Comic Book Day preview book, introducing the entire line of comics that are published as a collaboration between Radical Comics and Imaginary Friends. The book is standard comic format with full color artwork throughout. The dialogue and captions have been removed from the previews, presumably to let the art do the talking. This choice had mixed results for me. I got a bit frustrated not having more preview of the stories. On the other hand the artwork is all lovely and it helped keep my interest.
Previewed here are two stories from mythology: Aladin and Hercules. Both look like interesting takes on these frequently-retold tales, and both look to be visually spectacular.
Also previewed are the Arthurian western, Caliber, which sounds like a clever idea from the description, but whose artwork, while visually striking, seemed to indicate a fairly generic plot.
There is also a manga-influenced racing/mecha story called Freedom Formula, which seemed to be going for a mashup of Fast & Furious with Big Hero 6.
The remaining title to get some space here is Khrome, a dystopian SF story set in a world where imagination is discouraged, and religion outlawed.
As mentioned, the artwork is all beautiful, although it all looks to be similar in style, and it is all very dark. The editing on this book could have been better, but overall, this is a nice preview of books coming out of this collaboration
Rating: 6/10
Title: ImaginaryPublisher: Radical Comics
Date: May, 2008
Writer: Sam Sarkar, Steve Moore, Steve Niles
Artist: Jim Steranko, Admira Wuaya, Alexander Alexandrov, DCWJ, Garrie Gastonny, Henryz, Jennyson, Junkman, Leos "Okita" Ng, Mr. B, Rub-A-Duck, Svetlin Velinov, Wraithdt, YJL, ZID
This is a Free Comic Book Day preview book, introducing the entire line of comics that are published as a collaboration between Radical Comics and Imaginary Friends. The book is standard comic format with full color artwork throughout. The dialogue and captions have been removed from the previews, presumably to let the art do the talking. This choice had mixed results for me. I got a bit frustrated not having more preview of the stories. On the other hand the artwork is all lovely and it helped keep my interest.
Previewed here are two stories from mythology: Aladin and Hercules. Both look like interesting takes on these frequently-retold tales, and both look to be visually spectacular.
Also previewed are the Arthurian western, Caliber, which sounds like a clever idea from the description, but whose artwork, while visually striking, seemed to indicate a fairly generic plot.
There is also a manga-influenced racing/mecha story called Freedom Formula, which seemed to be going for a mashup of Fast & Furious with Big Hero 6.
The remaining title to get some space here is Khrome, a dystopian SF story set in a world where imagination is discouraged, and religion outlawed.
As mentioned, the artwork is all beautiful, although it all looks to be similar in style, and it is all very dark. The editing on this book could have been better, but overall, this is a nice preview of books coming out of this collaboration
Rating: 6/10
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