Let me tell you about sixties sci-fi. The hard core sixties scifi writers were chemists, physicists, all branches of science that were limited by what you couldn’t do. You can’t travel faster than light. You can’t build a time machine. But what about the cosmic?
Inner space was only a drop of LSD away.
SCRIPT – CHRISTOFER EMGARD
ART – FERNANDO BALDO
COLORS – MICHAEL ATIVEH
LETTERING – RICHARD STARKINGS AND COMICRAFT’S JIMMY BETANCOURT
SYNOPSIS – Months after a bioweapon attack devastated New York City, the Division agents are the last hope of a United States struggling to hold itself together. During a mission gone horribly wrong, Division Agent Caleb Dunne’s partner is gruesomely killed and Dunne vows to track down the mysterious woman responsible. As he gathers clues to her whereabouts, he uncovers a grave threat to a nation already on the brink of total collapse.
THE STORY – I have to say I’m not a huge fan of video game adaptations in movies or comics and I’m not a huge gamer but judging this book just on the story alone it wasn’t terrible, the writing was good and could ...
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Story – Jeff Lemire
Art – Emi Lenox
Colors – Dave Stewart
Letters – Todd Klein
This venture by writer Jeff Lemire in his Black Hammer Series is a one-shot story. That fact is welcome by me because I personally have yet to read any book in the Black Hammer series. I have been meaning to, just haven’t got there yet. The story is about a little girl who is half human half the Lovecraftian creature Cthulhu, and her plight dealing with the other “normal” students in her school.
I absolutely LOVE this book the writing is fantastic, Lemire paints a beautiful picture of teenage angst and pain through the eyes of this little monster girl. It is a fantastic allegory about being happy with who you are in life and appreciating where you come from.
The art by Emi Lenox is very good, it is very cart...
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Writer: Cristopher Cantwell
Artist: Martin Morazzo
Colorist: Miroslav Mrva
Letterer: Clem Robins
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
A woman is seen flying about the city. No one knows who she is, or how she is able to fly, but high school sophomore Luna Brewster is fascinated. Who is she? Where does she come from? How does she fly? What does she want?
Luna has some issues, but what teenager doesn’t? Her new school counselor seems nice enough, and the appearance of a flying woman is unusual, definitely not crazy, right?
She Could Fly is the first issue in a four part series under the Karen Berger Books imprint of Dark Horse Comics...
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