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SCRIPT: Dan Abnett
PENCILS: John Romita, Jr.
INKS: Sandra Hope
COLORS: Dean White
LETTERS: Tom Napolitano
COVER: John Romita, Jr. and Sandra Hope with Dean White
32pp, Color, $2.99 U.S. (March 2018)
Rated “T+” for Teen Plus
The Silencer created by Dan Abnett and John Romita, Jr.
“Code of Honor” Part 1
DC Comics has launched a new superhero comics initiative, “The New Age of DC Heroes,” coming out of its Dark Nights: Metal event miniseries. This line of comic books will consist of eight new comic book series: The Curse of Brimstone, Damage, The Immortal Men, New Challengers, Sideways, The Terrifics, The Unexpected, and the subject of this review, The Silencer.
The Silencer is written by co-creator Dan Abnett; drawn by co-creator John Romita, Jr. (pencils) and Sandra Hope; colored by Dean White; and lettered by Tom Napolitano. The Silencer focuses on a woman who was once an assassin, but now lives a normal life with a normal family.
The Silencer #1 introduces a woman who is super-strong, highly trained, and armed with devastating, stealthy, meta-human abilities. Once she was “The Silencer,” a virtually invincible assassin. Now, The Silencer is Honor Guest, a woman who loves her life as wife to her husband, Blake, and as a mother to their young son, Ben a.k.a. “Jellybean.” However, the arrival of Killbox signals that the “Underlife” lives on and that Leviathan wants Honor back.
I am a fan of artist John Romita, Jr., and he draws some impressive moments in this comic book. I am a fan of colorist Dean White, and he delivers some candy-coated hues here. I am a fan of letter Tom Napolitano, and he usually adds some punch to the dialogue and exposition, which is needed here.
Despite an impressive cover, The Silencer #1 is an OK first issue, but there is not much here, beyond the efforts of the graphics creative team, to entice readers to return for a second issue. The Silencer #1 reads like one of those muscle-bound, big-gun comic books that were almost half of Image Comics' initial input in the early to mid-1990s; think Youngblood, Wetworks, Codename: Strykeforce, etc.
This new age of heroes is new in names only, and is not particularly interesting.
5 out of 10
[This comic book includes a preview of The Immortal Men by Jim Lee and James Tynion IV.]
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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