Best of the Week
Title: Unity #16
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Pere Perez
Colorist: Brian Reber
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artist: Glenn Fabry and Adam Brown; Juan Jose Ryp and HiFi; Antonio Fuso
Review: ★★★★★
The Unity issues where Gilad is the focus always tend to be our favorites which is because Kindt understands the character so well and writes him so beautifully. Gilad may have the gift of immortality, but every time we look into his past we see how he really is more cursed, always watching those he cares for pass.
The Weekly Rundown
Title: Casanova: Acedia #2
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Matt Fraction
Artist: Fabio Moon
Colorist: Cris Peter
Letterer: Dustin K. Harbin
Cover Artist: Fabio Moon
Review: ★★★☆☆
The issue felt like it had two parts, a slow burning beginning where magic isn’t real and Casanova is a side thought. The second part picks up considerably with some deep black magic and some new, small pieces of just who Casanova is.
Title: Ghosted #18
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Joshua Williamson
Artist: Vladmir Krstic Laci
Colorist: Miroslav Mrva
Letterer: Rus Wooten
Cover Artist: Dan Panosian
Review: ★★★★☆
Last month featured a shocking “betrayal” from one of the main characters, and even though they redeemed them self nearly immediately, their fate because of those actions made it worth it. The standout of the issue had to be Laci’s excellent art featuring the Ghost Town and how it affected all of the characters through some great panel work.
Title: Holy F*ck #3
Publisher: Action Lab Entertainment
Writer: Nick Marino
Artist: Daniel Arruda Massa
Cover Artist: Daniel Arruda Massa
Review: ★★★★☆
Jesus and Satan teaming up with a nun to stop Zeus and Isis from blowing up the world with nukes? It’s just as crazy and wonderful as it sounds with plenty of fist to the face and knee to the nuts action.
Title: Ninjak #1
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Clay Mann; Butch Guice
Inker: Seth Mann
Colorist: Ulises Arreola
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artist: Lewis LaRosa; Clay Mann; Brian Reber; Dave Johnson; Marguerite Sauvage; Trevor Hairsine and Tom Muller; Tom Brennan
Review: ★★★★☆
Ninjak’s latest solo story traverses between multiple points of his life, the present and his childhood and then his start as a spy in The Lost Files backup. The story from his childhood seemed a bit unnecessary in relation to the main narrative, but it does a great job setting up his current assignment, even though we wish the fight between him and Roku would have been extended further as Mann’s art is gorgeous choreographing the two in that sequence.
Title: Postal #2
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Bryan Hill and Matt Hawkins
Artist: Isaac Goodhart
Colorist: Betsy Gonia
Letterer: Troy Peteri
Cover Artist: Linda Sejic; Isaac Goodhart and Betsy Gonia
Review: ★★★★☆
Postal continues to impress us with a fantastically complex lead and whats turning into a thrilling murder mystery. The connection the murder victim had to Mark seemed like a bit of a stretch, but it is one that was forgivable given the interesting origin of the suspected murderer, assuming it is who they currently believe it to be.
Title: Ragnarök #4
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Writer: Walter Simonson
Artist: Walter Simonson
Colorist: Laura Martin
Letterer: John Workman
Cover Artist: Walter Simonson and Laura Martin;
Review: ★★★☆☆
Walter Simonson returns to doing what he does best: Spinning tales of Norse mythology, in IDW’s take on the famous God of thunder, Thor. As Thor continues his quest across the Dusk Lands, he encounters a village of pacifists and their sworn protector, an armored troll. However, as Thor soon discovers, the biggest threat to the village could come from within.
Title: Resurrectionists #5
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Fred Van Lente
Artist: Maurizio Rosenweig
Colorist: Moreno Dinisio
Letterer: Nate Piekos
Cover Artist: Juan Doe
Review: ★★★☆☆
The Resurrectionists took a stumble this week by turning the focus on two characters we have thus far been least impressed by, even if one had a twist that makes her much more interesting than before. At this point, at least all of the characters have been unlocked, meaning we can get back to the con and the rest of Jericho’s team.
Title: Sheltered #15
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Ed Brisson
Artist: Johnnie Christmas
Colorist: Shari Chankhamma
Cover Artist: Johnnie Christmas
Review: ★★★☆☆
What sadly is most disappointing about the final issue of Sheltered is that the penultimate issue was the last featuring the most emotional moments of the series. It was satisfying to see what happened to the characters after, and the end tease that Sun Haven may have been right all along, but it would have worked much better if they would have been able to wrap this into last month.
Title: Shutter #10
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Joe Keatinge
Artist: Leila Del Duca
Colorist: Owen Gieni
Letterer: John Workman
Cover Artist: Leila Del Duca
Review: ★★★☆☆
A lot has been leading up to this and we’re finally drawn into the Dreamscape, which is every bit of a strange place as we could have imagined. While the setting takes a large part of the emphasis, the best part is actually the more subtle interactions between the two sisters, slowly watching them interact for the first time and finding familial bonds they didn’t know they had despite being enemies.
Title: Sidekick #10
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Artist: Tom Mandrake
Colorist: HiFi
Cover Artist: Tom Mandrake and HiFi
Review: ★★★☆☆
For ten issues we have been building to the confrontation between Flyboy and the Red Cowl and it probably would have been tough to make it anymore anticlimactic than it was. This should have been an epic confrontation between the former mentor and sidekick, but instead it feels as though the series forget how many issues it was set for and has to cram everything in right at the finish line.
Title: Sinergy #5
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma
Artist: Michael Avon Oeming
Colorist: Taki Soma
Letterer: David Walker
Cover Artist: Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma; Skottie Young
Review: ★★☆☆☆
For the most part everything finishes wrapped in a neat little package as Julia and the police detectives see the demons for what they really are. The final battle had a few deaths, but the most important one gets less attention than the deaths of two characters we only just met recently, muffling the conclusions emotional impact.
Title: Southern Cross #1
Publisher: Image Comics
Writer: Becky Cloonan
Artist: Andy Belanger
Colorist: Lee Loughridge
Letterer: Serge LaPointe
Cover Artist: Becky Cloonan
Review: ★★★☆☆
Reading Southern Cross, we kept wanting to enjoy it more than we did, but Alex and the supporting characters all felt fairly one-dimensional. The actual story itself has plenty of promise, we’re always up for a good science fiction mystery, but the characters really need to develop more, especially Alex if she is going to be narrating the series.
Title: Star Trek #43
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Writer: Mike Johnson
Artist: Tony Shasteen
Colorist: Davide Mastrolonardo
Letterer: Neil Uyetake
Cover Artist: Joe Corroney
Review: ★★★★☆
The crew of the Enterprise have found themselves stranded further out in the Delta Quadrant than the Federation has ever been before and their only salvation seems to be leading them towards even more troubles. Johnson continues to capture the personality of the crew spot on, but more than anything we came away impressed by Shasteen and Mastrolonardo’s phenomenal performance in nailing every panel this month.
Title: X #23
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Duane Swierczynski
Artist: Eric Nguyen
Colorist: Michelle Madsen
Letterer: Richard Starkings
Cover Artist: Rafael Albuquerque
Review: ★★★★☆
Several old plot threads come back to haunt X as he tries to pick up the pieces of Arcadia after the devastation of the last arc. We don’t fully buy into the latest amateur vigilante’s transition, but we loved seeing the origin of X’s missing eye, especially the reason why it never heals.
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