Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comics. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

WCGNN: The Five Fists of Science Review

This comic book was actually one of the first Steampunk purchases I ever made, but somehow hasn’t made it into my review rotation until now. Perhaps because it wasn’t until I reread it this week that I fully understood the story. I remember that I liked it, and that the artwork was great, but I couldn’t remember the plot at all until I got a few pages into my second reading. It is a tight little book that doesn’t waste any pages which is definitely a feat, but it did make things a little hard to follow.

The first few pages of this book by Matt Fraction (artwork by Steven Sanders) are excerpts from essays by Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla, who are also the stars of the story. Reading these essays and the character biographies that follow are very important for getting the most out of this book, so resist the temptation to skip them to get right to the meat of the tale because you will need them to better understand what follows.

The story begins during Twain’s financial “exile” (ie he is totally broke) when he is living in Austria. He goes back to New York to visit his brilliant but eccentric friend, Nikola Tesla, who has just had an incredible invention rejected by the US government. Twain convinces him that what he needs is a little salesmanship and flare to get the worlds’ leaders on board with a plan to bring about world peace through superior fire power. Little do they know that Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie and J. P. Morgan are dabbling in the black arts, and have a totally different idea of how the world should look.

Tuesday, June 7, 2016

The Resistants: Fulcrum #WCGNN Featured

THE RESISTANTS: Fulcrum 
by K.J. Kaminski, Ben Herrera, Livesay & Teo Gonzalez
Before his time with THE RESISTANTSFulcrum made his way on this world as a bounty hunter. He took a pledge to take down his fellow Axairians who have lost their way. He’s tracked down the worst of the bunch, Scrapper, but even if he defeats him, will he be able to hold him and collect on the bounty?
THE RESISTANTS #0: “It’s a Trap!”

by K.J. Kaminski, Jason Johnson & Hi-Fi Studios                    

Interval leads Adam and Fulcrum on a desperate, daring heist of an armored vehicle containing precious supplies. When the mission goes too smoothly, they are left with more questions about the Takeo Corporate-State leadership’s agenda.