IDW PUBLISHING with Cartoon Network – @IDWPublishing and @cartoonnetwork
WRITER: Jim Zub – @jimzub
ARTIST: Andy Suriano – @wolfboy74
COLORS: Josh Burcham
LETTERS: Shawn Lee
COVER: Andy Suriano
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (February 2014)
Samurai Jack created by Genndy Tartakovsky
“Samurai Jack and the Threads of Time” Part 5
IDW Publishing’s licensed Samurai Jack comic book series is a comic book adaptation of the Emmy-winning animated television series, Samurai Jack (2001-2004). The series’ initial storyline, “The Threads of Time,” comes to a close
Written by Jim Zub and drawn by Andy Suriano, Samurai Jack was one of the best new comic book series of 2013. What started out as a miniseries received the green light to become an ongoing series. Hooray!
Like the animated series, Samurai Jack the comic book focuses on the samurai known as “Jack.” Trapped on a dystopian, futuristic Earth, Jack fights an old enemy, the tyrannical, shape-shifting, demonic wizard named Aku. Jack wanders this future, trying to find a method by which he can travel back in time to the era in which he belongs, Feudal Japan. There, he can try to keep Aku from creating this troubled future.
Samurai Jack #5 finds Jack near the end of his journey to find the last of the Threads of Time. Once in possession of all the strands, he can wind them into the Rope of Eons and therefore, rewind himself back to Feudal Japan. Jack enters Aku’s fortress to find Aku in possession of the final Thread of Time. Victory is in Jack’s grasp, but so is doom.
I have enjoyed reading the previous issues of Zub and Suriano’s Samurai Jack, and my determination to find and read every issue has been paid off with an excellent conclusion. This final chapter in the opening story arc is a tour de force performance by Suriano and colorist, Josh Burcham. Suriano’s art is kinetic, crackles with life, and practically stirs as if animated. Burcham’s colors make the art pop off the page, bringing the graphics and story to life. Samurai Jack the comic book is an outstanding pop confection, the kind of comic book that makes me keeping coming back for more.
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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux
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