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Mike Isenberg recommends Requiem Vampire Knight Vol.5: DragonBlitz
Okay, so it wasn’t that long ago that I recommended Requiem: Vampire Knight Vol. 3 here. But I’m recommending the series again anyways! Two more volumes have come out since then, Halloween is at the end of this week, and seriously, this series is worth recommending twice!
If you missed my earlier review, here’s the book in a nutshell: Heinrich was a German soldier, in love with a Jewish woman named Rebecca, during World War II. After dying on the eastern front, he finds himself reborn as a vampire in Resurrection, a twisted mirror of Earth where dead sinners are reborn as monsters. He’s recruited by an order of vampire knights, and pines over his lost love while navigating the various intrigues and atrocities of the afterlife.
The series is violent, satirical, imaginative, and—above all else—gorgeous. Like, eyes popping out of your head, “oh man look at this page!” gorgeous. Olivier Ledroit is seriously some kind of wizard, except with a paint brush rather than a wand. And he somehow keeps getting better with the release of each volume.
Volume 5 opens on Earth with Rebecca’s sister in 1961, hunting Nazis in South America, before the story jumps back to Resurrection where Heinrich and Rebecca are fleeing Dracula’s airship fleet in what looks like a WWI era triplane. From there the book is full-throttle crazy-pants all the way to the end, featuring acrobatic aerial combat against dragons, a zombie pirate assault on a vampire opium train, and a tense infiltration into the heart of the vampire capital.
Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit have created an insane world that by all rights shouldn’t work nearly half as well as it does. By sheer force of crazy imagination and masterful execution, however, they’ve succeeded in elevating Requiem: Vampire Knight into must-read territory.
If you’re looking for something to sink your teeth into this Halloween, Requiem: Vampire Knight is highly recommended. Again. (It’s really that good.)
[Read Requiem Vampire Knight Vol. 5: Dragon Blitz on comiXology]
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of First Law Of Mad Science. He lives in Harlem with his cats, Tesla and Edison.
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Mike Isenberg recommends Memetic #1
LOLCats will destroy the world. Or, well, LOLSloth anyways. That’s the premise of Memetic, the new comic from writer James Tynion IV and artist Eryk Donovan.
Spread via Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, or Tumblr, viral images are a regular part of our online existence. While we know them as “viral” due to the seemingly organic way they propagate from person to person, Memetic posits a more sinister possibility: what if one of these images was actually dangerous?
Memetic tells the story of one such image, the “Good Times Sloth,” a seemingly innocuous Reddit post that makes viewers inexplicably euphoric and charged with a desire to share the image with everyone they know. Issue #1 follows two characters outside of the sloth’s influence: a colorblind college freshman named Aaron who’s more interested in using the internet to patch things up with his long-distance boyfriend than to stare at funny animal pictures all day, and Marcus, a former head of Military Intelligence who’s lost his sight to macular degeneration but may be the only one able to see what’s actually happening.
Thematically, the comic shares a lot in common with Neal Stephenson’s classic post-cyberpunk novel Snow Crash. Unlike that book, however, Memetic is firmly set in the “real world” of present day and feels frighteningly believable. For fans of Neal Stephenson and William Gibson, or for anyone who’s ever shared a Tumblr or Facebook post, Memetic is highly recommended.
[Read Memetic #1 on comiXology]
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of First Law Of Mad Science . He lives in Harlem with his cats, Tesla and Edison .
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Mike Isenberg recommends I Luv Halloween Vol. 1
Who doesn’t love Halloween? As a kid it meant roaming around the neighborhood with friends and family, collecting enough free candy to last you to Thanksgiving. As an adult it means an excuse to screen classic horror movies and throw crazy costume parties.
The kids in I Luv Halloween—a dark comedy/horror series by Benjamin Roman and Keith Giffen —however, take their love for trick-or-treating to a particularly insane extreme. Nothing can stand between them and their sugary haul, and woe be to anything that dares try. Whether their obstacles take the form of bullies, undead dogs, rampaging cheerleaders, supernatural curses, or old women who—god forbid—hand out apples instead of candy, these kids overcome all challenges with a singleminded and violent determination that borders on (the wrong side of) psychotic.
Right on the front cover of volume 1 is a blurb that serves double-duty as both critical praise and as a warning: “Crass, tasteless, and brilliant.” Be aware that these trick-or-treaters aren’t your typical fun-loving scamps, up to a bit of harmless Halloween mischief. Egging your car or toilet-papering your lawn isn’t really their style; instead they’re more likely to disembowel you with your own dentures, bash your head in with a rock, and bury you in a shallow grave just outside of town.
I Luv Halloween is definitely full of tasteless humor. Some of the gags will make you, well, gag. But it does have its aspects of brilliance as well. This is schlocky slapstick horror done right. Roman’s art is fresh and dynamic, and the coloring for this “Ultimate Twisted Edition” really makes the viscera visceral.
Recommended for fans of Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Squee, and Lenore, as well as fans of bloody slapstick horror films like Re-Animator or Evil Dead 2, I Luv Halloween Vol. 1 releases today, with volumes 2 and 3 (featuring a zombie uprising and an alien invasion, respectively) slated for the next two weeks, leading up to Halloween.
[Read I Luv Halloween Vol. 1 on comiXology]
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of First Law Of Mad Science . He lives in Harlem with his cats, Tesla and Edison .
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Mike Isenberg recommends Hawkeye Vol. 3: L.A. Women
I have a confession to make: before Matt Fraction’s (mattfractionblog) current take on the character, I have never had any interest whatsoever in Hawkeye. He was just some guy with a bow and arrow who dressed in purple and fought with the Avengers. And (to pile up even more confessions) I’ve never really been that into the Avengers. As I’ve mentioned here before, my super-hero tastes as a kid ran more towards the darker side of the Marvel universe. Spandex and archery never really grabbed me much.
So when I first took a look at the current Hawkeye series, I was pleasantly surprised and very, very intrigued. Just flip through a single issue, and you’ll see what I mean. Instead of larger-than-life super-hero action In The Mighty Marvel Style!, the pages of Hawkeye are understated and cleverly designed and down-to-earth. Rather than yet another solo super-hero book, Fraction et al. have delivered a consistently witty, brilliantly quirky street-level crime series that feels more at home on the indie comics rack than it does shelved next to Avengers and Superman.
For the last year or so, issues of the series have alternated between following “classic” Hawkeye Clint Barton, and “lady” Hawkeye Kate Bishop. Hawkeye Vol. 3: L.A. Woman collects all of the Kate Bishop issues into a single, cohesive story.
Fed up with Clint’s drama in New York, Kate packs up her things and heads west for a fresh start in Los Angeles. Her voyage of self discovery gets a rocky start, however, and when she finds herself broke and friendless, she decides to hire herself out as a freelance investigator/crime-fighter in order to make ends meet. Each issue sees Kate take on a new case, and the chapters are refreshingly self-contained, yet still succeed in building a satisfying arc for Kate and tying themselves together by the end of the volume.
The book also looks great. Art duties fall to Javier Pulido for the first chapter (Hawkeye Annual #1), with Annie Wu (anniewu) taking the helm for the rest of the volume. Both are incredibly talented artists with fairly distinct styles, and the visual change actually works out great for the story. Pulido’s crisp lines and simple design aesthetic mirror Kate Bishop’s optimism for the novelty and glamour of L.A. when she first arrives, while Wu’s grittier approach fits beautifully once things get tougher and Kate starts her investigations into L.A.’s darker side.
Whether you’re a die-hard Hawkeye fan or someone who, like me two years ago, couldn’t have told you the first thing about the character, you should absolutely pick up this book. It’s charming, witty, and refreshingly fun. Highly recommended.
[Read Hawkeye Vol. 3: L.A. Women on comiXology]
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of First Law Of Mad Science. He lives in Harlem with his cats, Tesla and Edison
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Mike Isenberg recommends Fatale Vol. 5: Curse the Demon
Fatale made me miss my subway stop. I was re-reading the series last week to prepare for this review, and on my way home from work on Friday I ended up so engrossed in an issue I had already read that I completely failed to notice that we had arrived at my stop. I’ve been getting off at this stop for over five years; I haven’t missed it in ages. So the fact that I ended up walking an extra half-dozen blocks to get home that night, and that I didn’t particularly mind it, should speak volumes towards just how great this series is.
For the uninitiated: Fatale is a noir series tinged with Lovecraftian supernatural horror, from master storytellers Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. The story spans the length of the 20th century, up through the modern day, following the tumultuous life of Josephine, the ultimate femme fatale. Cursed by supernatural powers, Josephine never ages and has the singular ability to bewitch any man she sees, whether she wants to or not. Her “victims” fall desperately, obsessively in love with her, forgetting their wives, families, and careers in pursuit of her affections; as a result she is haunted by countless ruined lives that she’s left in her wake over the decades chronicled in the comic.
Volume 5 is the final book in the series, and while it’s bittersweet to see such a great comic come to an end, things are wrapped up here pretty well. Nicolas Lash, who has been tracking Josephine in modern-day “interludes” throughout the series, finally gets the spotlight for a volume of his own, which feels like it’s been a long time coming. Other loose ends are also fleshed out, such as the history of the tentacle-faced “Bishop” that’s been after Jo since volume 1, as well as the story behind Josephine’s son, of whom we’ve seen almost nothing since his photograph surfaced in volume 2.
I really can’t recommend this book highly enough. Brubaker and Phillips have proven themselves masters of the noir genre, and have seamlessly incorporated supernatural horror into the mix for Fatale, resulting in one of the most engrossing page-turners I’ve read in years.
If you do pick it up, though, do make sure you put it down from time to time. Or who knows where you’ll end up.
[Read Fatale Vol. 5: Curse The Demon on comiXology]
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of First Law Of Mad Science. He lives in Harlem with his cats, Tesla and Edison
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Mike Isenburg recommends Requiem Vampire Knight Vol. 3: Dracula
Vampire Nazis in Hell battling zombie pirate nuns in airship-to-airship combat. Does that get your attention?
Originally published in English by Heavy Metal magazine, Requiem: Vampire Knight is an insanely imaginative, over-the-top, and gorgeously illustrated fantasy horror series from French artist Olivier Ledroit and British writer Pat Mills.
Mills, sometimes known as “the godfather of British comics,” co-created the hugely influential sci-fi anthology series 2000 AD, and wrote many of the earliest stories for its best-known character, Judge Dredd. He’s also well known for his ultraviolet superhero satire Marshal Law, drawn by Kevin O'Neil.
Requiem: Vampire Knight continues in Mills’ tradition of grim, violent satire. In the gothic science-fantasy world that Mills and Ledroit have created, dead sinners are reborn as monsters in a dimension known as “Resurrection,” a dark mirror of Earth where land and seas are reversed and time flows backwards. The story follows a German soldier named Heinrich who dies on the eastern front of World War II in 1944 and finds himself reborn on Resurrection as a vampire. Initiated into an order of vampire knights who re-name him Requiem, Heinrich pines for his love Rebecca (a Jewish woman he lost to the Gestapo during the war on Earth) in an attempt to hold onto his humanity as he fights enemies both within and without the order.
The story is, well, kind of nuts… but in the best possible way! Resurrection is a world full of atrocity and intrigue, and oh man does it look gorgeous. Ledroit’s masterful paintings bring this strange gothic world to life in a way that boggles the mind. There are pages in this series that you’ll want to hang on your wall.
Fans of that other well-known British “grim-dark” gothic science-fantasy world, Warhammer 40,000, will definitely find a lot in common here to love. As will anyone who likes a good horror/action story or beautifully painted comics, as long as you’re not too squeamish.
[Pick up Requiem Vampire Knight Vol. 3: Dracula here!]
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of First Law Of Mad Science. He lives in Harlem with his cats, Tesla and Edison.
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Mike Isenberg recommends Wayward #1
As frequent anime convention attendees in the late 1990s, my friends and I had a theory that the primary export of Japan was Crazy. With a mix of its own ancient folklore and a hodgepodge of external cultural and religious influences, the collective Japanese imagination seems to constantly produce work that could never have existed anywhere else, and that often seems wild and bizarre to foreign eyes.
Wayward #1’s protagonist, Rori Lane, has one such pair of foreign eyes. Half-Japanese by birth, she begins the story traveling to Japan for the first time, moving there as a young adult to live with her mother and get a fresh start after her parents’ rough divorce. What she experiences on her first night, however, goes well beyond culture shock and jet lag, and deep into the territory of the truly bizarre and supernatural.
Written by Jim Zub (jimzub) and drawn by Steve Cummings, Wayward is a supernatural action/adventure story steeped in Japanese folklore. Just beneath the shadows of Zub & Cummings’ Tokyo is a world of mythical yōkai, mysterious and mischievous monsters of Japanese legend.
The book’s art is a pleasure to view. Cummings’ line art is crisp and dynamic, and the colors (supplied by Zub and John Rauch) make each page really pop. The action sequences are fluid and exciting, and Cummings’ deft hand with facial expressions gives the characters a significant level of depth and relatability.
Wayward #1 also features some great back-matter from Japanese folklore scholar Zack Davisson, including an overview of yōkai mythology throughout Japanese history and a short essay profiling the legendary roots of one of the monsters featured in this issue. It certainly isn’t required reading if you’d rather just focus on the gorgeous action/adventure comic preceding it, but I found all of it really fascinating and informative.
Definitely recommended for fans of supernatural action/adventure stories like Buffy The Vampire Slayer, or just anyone who wants to see feral, cat-like Japanese girls tearing into legendary turtle demons. And really, who doesn’t? If the chief export of Japan really is Crazy, then lock me in the nut house because I love this stuff.
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE. He lives in Harlem with his cats, TESLA AND EDISON
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Mike Isenberg recommends Devil Dinosaur
The king of comics takes on the king of the thunder lizards!
Jack “King” Kirby is inarguably one of the most influential comic creators of the last century. By the end of the 1960s, Kirby had co-created Captain America, the Fantastic Four, Thor, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the X-Men, the Inhumans, and Black Panther, all for Marvel comics. In the first half of the 1970s, however, Kirby left Marvel for a five-year stint at DC, where he continued to astound readers with his incredible imagination and bombastic, innovative art style.
One of Kirby’s more successful creations at DC during this period was Kamandi: The Last Boy On Earth, a series about a young boy’s adventures in a post-apocalyptic wilderness.
In the latter half the 70s, Kirby returned to Marvel, and Kamandi had been optioned for an animated television series. With the buzz for DC’s Kamandi growing, Marvel decided that they needed their own Kirby-created young-boy-in-the-wild series, and so Devil Dinosaur was born. But instead of the last human boy in the far-flung future, Devil Dinosaur features the first human boy in the far-flung past. And also his best friend, a bright red tyrannosaurus rex.
Devil Dinosaur only ran for 9 issues but each issue is a gem. Kirby’s artwork is a wonder to behold. It’s said that Kirby’s forte was his dynamic and innovative depictions of power and strength; it’s hard to get much stronger or more powerful than a big ol’ dinosaur rampaging through the jungle.
The stories themselves are also great, brimming with Kirby’s delightfully imaginative weirdness. Over the course of nine issues, Devil and Moon Boy encounter giant neanderthals, alien invaders, super-sized ants, dinosaur tamers, and a time-warp that briefly sends Devil rampaging into 1978.
Devil Dinosaur is a fantastic adventure series from a master of the medium. Highly recommended.
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE. He lives in Harlem with his cats, TESLA AND EDISON
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Mike Isenberg recommends Zombillenium #2
Zombillenium Vol. 2 is finally here! When Vol. 1 came out last summer it totally charmed my socks off, so I was very excited to see Vol. 2 on our release slate for this week.
For the uninitiated, Zombillenium is an absolutely gorgeous graphic novel series from French cartoonist and graphic designer Arthur de Pins. The story centers on a “spooky” themed amusement park, the eponymous Zombillenium, and its highly unusual staff. Park guests are wowed by the zombie make-up, ghostly special-effects, and monster costumes; little do they know that everything in the park is real. After all, why use make-up when you can employ the legitimately undead?
If the set-up sounds a bit hammy, trust me when I say that de Pins’s superb execution lets this book soar high above its premise. The characters are delightful, the writing is snappy and very funny (though you may have to excuse the occasional awkward translation), and did I mention that the art is absolutely gorgeous? Each page was created digitally using Adobe Illustrator and the result is a distinctive, crisp, cartoony style that looks like no other book out there. The characters are all lively and dynamic, the colors all pop; really I could just stare at this book for hours.
Volume 1 introduced us to the characters and the park, while management dealt with declining sales and a labor dispute with the Zombies Union. This new volume keeps the focus on the running of the park, which is now having some trouble with the locals. Employing thousands of undead, while the nearby area suffers double-digit unemployment for the living, will tend to ruffle some feathers. When a couple of local villagers enact a plan to infiltrate and sabotage the park, they’ll find more than they bargained for beneath the rides and cotton-candy machines.
I really can’t recommend this book highly enough. It’s light-hearted with a distinctly dark edge; the characters are charming, the dialogue is witty, and the artwork is stunning. Go check it out!
For fans of: comedy, horror, supernatural
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE. He lives in Harlem with his cats, TESLA AND EDISON
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Mike Isenberg recommends 100th Anniversary Special: Avengers #1
Batman just celebrated his 75th anniversary. Superman’s 75th was just a few months ago. Not to be outdone, however, Marvel is now celebrating 100 years of Marvel comics!
Wait… that… doesn’t seem right. 2014 minus 1961… umm. No that’s more like 53 years. Maybe they mean Marvel’s predecessor, Timely Comics. Let’s see, Timely debuted in… 1939. Huh.
Okay, so Marvel as we know it still has 57 years before it can actually celebrate it’s 100 year anniversary. As it turns out, though, these 100th Anniversary Special books that Marvel is releasing are from the future!
Marvel’s 100th Anniversary Specials are a series of one-shot glimpses into the Marvel Universe of the 2060’s. Marvel has given some incredible talent free rein to let their imagination go wild, and the results are as fun, strange, and unexpected as… well, as Marvel announcing a 100th anniversary celebration in 2014.
The creator tapped for 100th Anniversary Special: Avengers #1 is none other than James Stokoe, the amazing talent behind Orc Stain, Sullivan’s Sluggers, and Wonton Soup. (Check out my colleague Jen's great write-up of Wonton Soup here.)
Stokoe imagines 2063 as a rough year for the Avengers. They’ve just barely halted an alien invasion, most of the world is in ruins and covered with alien spores, and the entire American continent (along with most of its heroes) has been lost into the Negative Zone. Rogue, Doctor Strange, and Beta Ray Bill have returned to Avengers headquarters, re-located in Kuala Lumpur, to assist with the reconstruction effort when a new enemy emerges from the depths.
The book is strange and funny and gorgeously illustrated, all in Stokoe’s distinctively twisted style. The setting of spore-covered Kuala Lumpur is a visual treat, full of hidden details and beautiful weirdness.
I’m always excited whenever Marvel lets talented indie creators really go wild with their characters (see also: Strange Tales and Strange Tales II), and Stokoe has absolutely pulled out all the stops here. My only complaint is that there isn’t more. I’m willing to wait for the next issue, though, even if it won’t happen for another 49 years…
[Read 100th Anniversary Special: Avengers #1 Here!]
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE. He lives in Harlem with his cats, TESLA AND EDISON
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Mike Isenberg recommends Dark Engine #1
Written by Ryan Burton and illustrated by John Bivens, Dark Engine #1 is a fantastically weird, gory, and beautiful romp through a strange alien world.
The story features a female warrior named Sym, created by alchemists to travel back in time and defeat the evil that plagues them in the past like some sort of berzerk lady Terminator. But the source of Sym’s power, the alchemical Dark Engine implanted deep within her, is unpredictable, and the outcome of her mission is far from certain.
Issue #1 plunges us directly into the deep end of the strange world that Burton and Bivens have created. The book introduces the setting and a few characters, but this place is weird, and very little is explained directly to the reader. Instead we are left to piece together the what, when, and why from context and a few snippets of dialogue.
Between those few dialogue scenes are a number of gorgeously rendered action sequences, mostly concerning Sym cutting her way through dinosaurs and monsters, covering herself with blood and viscera along the way. Bivens executes these beautifully, with a rough-yet-purposeful brush style that evokes the work of artists like Paul Pope and Nathan Fox.
The near-impenetrable weirdness of Dark Engine’s setting gives it a plapable sense of alienation and danger. That so little is explained directly to us only serves to make the world feel more real and alive. Fans of Brandon Graham’s (royalboiler) excellent Prophet revival will feel right at home here. Dark Engine #1 leaves us with a lot of questions, but it takes us on a wonderfully trippy ride along the way. Definitely worth checking out!
For fans of: sci-fi, supernatural, action
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE. He lives in Harlem with his cats, TESLA AND EDISON
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Mike Isenberg recommends The Life After #1
Is your life bland and repetitive? Do you find yourself in a monotonous cycle of unsatisfying experiences? You might be dead.
The Life After—by joshfialkov and Gabo (galvo) —is a comic about a very boring afterlife. The book itself, however, is anything but.
The book’s protagonist is a man named Jude who seems to be sleepwalking through life. Every morning he wakes up on his couch, takes a bus through heavy traffic to a mind-numbing job, busses home, and passes out on his couch in front of his TV. Everything in his world is mildly uncomfortable, unsatisfying, and bland. And it’s all on an endless loop.
Until one day he gets off his bus early and does something that nobody has done in two thousand years.
It’s hard to say too much about issue #1 without spoiling things. “Things are not as they seem,” as the cliché goes, and the opening chapter of The Life After is mostly concerned with Jude trying to piece together what’s going on. The mystery is compelling, though, and the literary figure that turns up towards the end to play Virgil to Jude’s Dante has me excited to see where this series will be headed.
Be warned that this book is dark. The Life After #1 deals quite a bit with suicide and the experiences that might drive a person to that point. Some of the scenes are downright grisly. But if you’re up for a dark, weird, and mysterious supernatural tale, this comic will absolutely scratch that itch. For a book about the dead, The Life After definitely has some life in it.
[Read The Life After #1 Here!]
For fans of: action, supernatural
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE. He lives in Harlem with his cats, TESLA AND EDISON
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Mike Isenberg recommends The Bargain Vol. 1
It’s New Year’s Eve 1955, and Jackson Connolly owes a debt that’s about to be due. Ten years ago he made a bargain with a supernatural power; now his life and his soul will be forfeit, unless he can find a way out of the deal before the ball drops on 1956.
The Bargain, by Kara Barrett and J.C. Grande, is a supernatural noir comic that makes its way to us via Kickstarter and comiXology Submit.
Barrett and Grande successfully weave an atmospheric tale of southern horror and supernatural gloom. In his quest for redemption, Jackson will travel from the swamplands of Louisiana to the burlesque clubs of New Orleans. Along the way he’ll meet ghosts, witches, hell-hounds, and gods. Jackson is determined to wheel and deal with all of them, hoping that his wits will be enough to free him of his debt, but he knows that he’s running out of time.
The ticking clock of Jackson’s soul-debt gives the book a palpable sense of doom and desperation that keeps the reader on their toes. With the stakes so high—it’s not only his life on the line, but also an eternity of hellfire and torment—Jackson thinks he’s prepared to do anything to reach his goal. But how far will he really go? And even if he can break the bargain and save his soul, what will be left of it to save?
Volume 1 is a self-contained story, but it leaves room for more to follow. The world that Barrett and Grande have created is fascinating and I hope there’s a Volume 2 in the works. For fans of atmospheric supernatural noir stories like Hellblazer or Ten Grand, I can definitely recommend checking out The Bargain.
[Read The Bargain Vol. 1 Here!]
For fans of: action, noir, supernatural
Mike Isenberg is an Associate Production Coordinator at comiXology, and the co-writer of FIRST LAW OF MAD SCIENCE. He lives in Harlem with his cats, TESLA AND EDISON