In his newest series, SEVEN TO ETERNITY, Rick Remender, with artist Jerome Opeña and colorist Matt Hollingsworth, tells a story about family and freedom, set in an exquisite fantasy world replete with great and terrible magic.
The God of Whispers has spread an omnipresent paranoia to every corner of the kingdom of Zhal; his spies hide in every hall spreading mistrust and fear. Adam Osidis, a dying knight from a disgraced house, must join a hopeless band of magic users in their desperate bid to free their world of the evil God, or accept the God’s promise to give Adam everything his heart desires. All men have surrendered their freedom for fear. Now, one last free man must choose.
SEVEN TO ETERNITY is one of the most beautiful and exciting new releases this week! Keep reading to find five awesome graphic novels by Rick Remender you should check out next!
I was totally floored by Seven to Eternity #1. The strange, bleak world set in some alternate universe where everything seems to have gone wrong roped me in immediately. I had a thousand questions by the end of the first issue despite the massive amount of story packed into it. I could barely contain myself when I was able to get #2 into my hands.
In issue #1, we’re introduced to Adam; a father and a mosak, the last of his kind. By the time the issue ends, he’s facing “The Mud King,” the tyrannical leader of Zhal, to “hear his offer.” In this issue, we get the follow up to that cliffhanger and it was a whole lot more than I expected to get.
Jerome Opeña’s art is something I expect to be top notch, but in this series he is at his best–better than any of his work that I’ve seen before. From character design to monsters to backgrounds, this book is peak Opeña. Adding Matt Hollingsworth’s colors, this book is vibrant and in your face, especially when it comes to the characters introduced in this issue. If you want a prime example of what a good colorist does, look no further than this issue. Hollingsworth is at the top of his game in this series with Opeña.
I was very surprised at how much story we got in this issue. Remender delivers history and character development and introduces new characters with ease and without distracting you from what the mantra of this story: “Never hear the Mud King’s Offer.” I’m really impressed at how easy this book is to read despite packing in so much story. Remender allows Opeña space to show off while slamming us with action and development all at once. It’s a rare feat and Remender does this with no issue at all.
Really, though, the one thing I loved the most about this issue was that we got more of the character who rocks it on the flute: the “piper” (I call him “The Bard”). I don’t know what it is, but I really love this character. He’s sadistic and awful and a slave to the Mud King. He’s fantastically awful and I want more!
If you’re not reading Seven to Eternity, fix that. This book is one of the best that Image is publishing right now.
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It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he’s failing is “Dismemberment 101,” and his crush has a doubledigit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world’s top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft. At Kings Dominion School for the Deadly Arts, the dagger in your back isn’t always metaphorical.
Study up and then check out the start of a new arc and a new class in issue 22.
It’s morning in America, and a new era of DEADLY CLASS begins here! The survivors of last arc’s brutal finale barely have time to consider what they’ve done before a new class of kids arrives at the school, eager to pick up the bloody mantle. And nothing goes better with fresh blood than a Freshman Mixer!
In his newest series, SEVEN TO ETERNITY, Rick Remender, with artist Jerome Opeña and colorist Matt Hollingsworth, tells a story about family and freedom, set in an exquisite fantasy world replete with great and terrible magic.
The God of Whispers has spread an omnipresent paranoia to every corner of the kingdom of Zhal; his spies hide in every hall spreading mistrust and fear. Adam Osidis, a dying knight from a disgraced house, must join a hopeless band of magic users in their desperate bid to free their world of the evil God, or accept the God’s promise to give Adam everything his heart desires. All men have surrendered their freedom for fear. Now, one last free man must choose.
SEVEN TO ETERNITY is one of the most beautiful and exciting new releases this week! Keep reading to find five awesome graphic novels by Rick Remender you should check out next!
In this episode Kzam and Lou reveal the secrets of womanhood.
Topics include hiding Slim in a ditch somewhere, romantic poets, you’re gonna suffer but you’re gonna be happy about it, reimagining Disney rides, sketchy hostage ghosts, normalizing magic, worldbuilding glory, red shorts Superman vs non-red shorts Superman, Batman-ing through the corn, THIS IS WHY I LIKE TO WORK ALONE, owning your cry face, gatekeeping bad sharing good, and your letters!
Sincere we talking about inspirations, and since this series came up in a question yesterday, how about the punk songs/albums that inspired the titles of the Fear Agent arcs? The only one I’m not 100% sure about is Hatchet Job.
1. Re-Ignition (Bad Brains)
2. My War (Black Flag)
3. The Last Goodbye (Agent Orange)
4. Hatchet Job (I’m ashamed to admit I don’t know this one for sure).
