DUSK CHAPTER 1
[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]
CREATORS: Brandon Gary and Jason Bienvenu
STORY: Brandon Gary
LAYOUTS: Brandon Gary
ART: Jason Bienvenu
COLORS: Jason Bienvenu
LETTERS: Brandon Gary
LOGO: Jason Bienvenu
32pp, Color, $5.00 U.S. (June 2015)
Dusk is a comic book series created by writer Brandon Gary and artist Jason Bienvenu. A science fiction series, Dusk is set in the distant future and finds humanity engaged in interstellar space travel and colonization. The narrative takes place on the newly colonized world of Lunaris Seven, an unusual planet that does not rotate or orbit the sun, thus having one side that is permanently dark and the other permanently light.
Dusk Chapter 1 opens as a teenage girl, Kaitlyn, arrives in Dusk, a city that is built on the edge of Lunaris Seven's light and dark. She has arrived to live with her older sister, Christina, and the reunion goes well in light of a recent family tragedy.
Meanwhile, Detective Eddie Hizaki and Detective Neil Weathers of the Lunaris Seven Police Department (L7PD) are investigating a series of a child disappearances. Hizaki and Weathers' partnership is an uneasy one, as each detective disagrees with the other about the fate of the children. Circumstances bring these four people together, as they discover the reach of the criminal element living in the shadows of Dusk.
I am a little familiar with the work of Jason Bienvenu, who wrote and drew the six-issue comic book miniseries, The Kingdom, which was published by Comix Tribe. [I reviewed the first issue for the website @ComicBookBin.] During the recent Louisiana Comic Con in Lafayette, Louisiana (October 17-18, 2015), I discovered that Bienvenu and writer Brandon Gray had a table in the vendor's gallery, where they were promoting their comic book projects. Wanting to support local comics creators, I decided to sample Dusk because it was a collaborative project by the two. Plus, I was attracted to striking image and vivid coloring on the cover of Dusk Chapter 1.
First, I want to say that Bienvenu has improved as an artist since The Kingdom. His compositions are stronger, and his figure drawing expresses emotion and mood, which is good for the story. Working from Gray's layouts, Bienvenu uses graphic design and color to create an eye-catching storytelling package that makes me want to read this comic book.
I like the manner in which Gray uses science fiction as a basic template by which he plays out the dramas of characters seemingly from different genres: Kaitlyn and Christina (family melodrama) and Hizaki and Weathers (cop drama). This keeps the story from being trapped in the tropes of one particular genre or sub-genre, but that method especially emphasizes the sense of the unknown in this narrative. Discovering and unraveling secrets is what makes the reader at least consider coming back for the second chapter or next installment. And I am quite interested returning to the intriguing Dusk.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux
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Sunday, December 27, 2015
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
Assassination Classroom: On Island Time
I read Assassination Classroom, Vol. 7
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Friday, December 25, 2015
I Reads You Merry Christmas
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Oresama Teacher: Where's Hayasaka?
I reads Oresama Teacher , Vol. 19
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Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Review: CHEWBACCA #1
CHEWBACCA No. 1
MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel
[This review was originally posted on Patreon. And visit the "Star Wars Central" review page here.]
WRITER: Gerry Duggan
ART: Phil Noto
LETTERS: VC's Joe Caramagna
COVER: Phil Noto
VARIANT COVERS: Ariel Olivetti; Gabriele Dell'Otto; Alex Ross; Skottie Young
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (December 2015)
Rated T
“Part I”
Since Marvel Comics starting publishing Star Wars comic books again, they have already produced two character miniseries that each focus on a classic character from the original Star Wars movie trilogy. The two series, Princess Leia and Lando, were both five-issue miniseries.
The latest one miniseries focuses on Han Solo's longtime friend and co-pilot, the Wookie, Chewbacca, aka “Chewie.” Entitled Chewbacca (of course), the five-issue miniseries is written by Gerry Duggan (Deadpool) and drawn and colored by Phil Noto (Black Widow), with letters by Joe Caramagna.
Chewbacca #1 (“Part 1”) is set directly after the events depicted in the original film, Star Wars (1977). Chewie is on an important and personal secret mission when his spacecraft malfunctions, stranding him on the planet, Andelm-4. He is trying to procure the “flight stabilizer” he needs for his ship, when he becomes ensnared in a young native girl's problem. Her name is Zarro, and her father, Arrax, is in trouble with a powerful crime boss-type. As Chewie and the Zarro come to an understanding, their problems are actually getting bigger.
A Chewbacca comic book can only work when a comic book writer understands how to take advantage of Chewie's expressive nature and also understand how to play a character that is like a force of nature. The comic book artist will have to be able to depict Chewbacca's physicality in a way that expresses both the extremes and the ranges of his emotions.
After one issue, Gerry Duggan seems to be that writer, and Phil Noto seems to be that artist. Noto's distinctive style correctly sets Chewbacca as distinct from the rest of Marvel's Star Wars titles without making it estranged from them. Duggan offers up a playful and sly Chewie to balance the dangerous Wookie whose “heavy” and destructive side will be needed for him to be the hero.
I am as yet unsure about Zarro. She could be an attractive heroine or an annoying spunky type or she could be the victim slash damsel. I hope Duggan gives her fight. It looks like Chewbacca will be another Star Wars character miniseries hit.
A-
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux
The text is copyright © 2015 Leroy Douresseaux. All Rights Reserved. Contact this blog for reprint and syndication rights and fees.
MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel
[This review was originally posted on Patreon. And visit the "Star Wars Central" review page here.]
WRITER: Gerry Duggan
ART: Phil Noto
LETTERS: VC's Joe Caramagna
COVER: Phil Noto
VARIANT COVERS: Ariel Olivetti; Gabriele Dell'Otto; Alex Ross; Skottie Young
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (December 2015)
Rated T
“Part I”
Since Marvel Comics starting publishing Star Wars comic books again, they have already produced two character miniseries that each focus on a classic character from the original Star Wars movie trilogy. The two series, Princess Leia and Lando, were both five-issue miniseries.
The latest one miniseries focuses on Han Solo's longtime friend and co-pilot, the Wookie, Chewbacca, aka “Chewie.” Entitled Chewbacca (of course), the five-issue miniseries is written by Gerry Duggan (Deadpool) and drawn and colored by Phil Noto (Black Widow), with letters by Joe Caramagna.
Chewbacca #1 (“Part 1”) is set directly after the events depicted in the original film, Star Wars (1977). Chewie is on an important and personal secret mission when his spacecraft malfunctions, stranding him on the planet, Andelm-4. He is trying to procure the “flight stabilizer” he needs for his ship, when he becomes ensnared in a young native girl's problem. Her name is Zarro, and her father, Arrax, is in trouble with a powerful crime boss-type. As Chewie and the Zarro come to an understanding, their problems are actually getting bigger.
A Chewbacca comic book can only work when a comic book writer understands how to take advantage of Chewie's expressive nature and also understand how to play a character that is like a force of nature. The comic book artist will have to be able to depict Chewbacca's physicality in a way that expresses both the extremes and the ranges of his emotions.
After one issue, Gerry Duggan seems to be that writer, and Phil Noto seems to be that artist. Noto's distinctive style correctly sets Chewbacca as distinct from the rest of Marvel's Star Wars titles without making it estranged from them. Duggan offers up a playful and sly Chewie to balance the dangerous Wookie whose “heavy” and destructive side will be needed for him to be the hero.
I am as yet unsure about Zarro. She could be an attractive heroine or an annoying spunky type or she could be the victim slash damsel. I hope Duggan gives her fight. It looks like Chewbacca will be another Star Wars character miniseries hit.
A-
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux
The text is copyright © 2015 Leroy Douresseaux. All Rights Reserved. Contact this blog for reprint and syndication rights and fees.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015
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