#IReadsYou Review: DEEP BEYOND #1

DEEP BEYOND #1 (OF 12)
IMAGE COMICS/Arancia Studio

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

STORY: Mirka Andolfo and David Goy
ART: Andrea Broccardo
COLORS: Barbara Nosenzo
LETTERS: Fabio Amelia
DESIGN: Fabrizio Verrocchi
EDITOR: Rossano Bruno
COVER: Andrea Broccardo
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Andrea Broccardo with Andrea Meloni; Mirka Andolfo; Peach Momoko; Stjepan Šejić
28pp, Colors, 3.99 U.S. (February 2021)

Rated “T+/Teen Plus”

Deep Beyond created by Mirka Andolfo, David Goy, Andrea Broccardo, and Barbara Nosenzo

Deep Beyond is a new twelve-issue comic book miniseries from writers Mirka Andolfo and David Goy and artist Andrea Broccardo.  Published by Image Comics, Deep Beyond is a science fiction comic book that follows a small group of people trying to discover what is hidden in an abyss.  Colorist Barbara Nosenzo and letterer Fabio Amelia complete the creative team.

Deep Beyond #1 opens in the North Atlantic Ocean where a submarine is being breached.  The next day there is a crazy party, and the world changes for Dr. Paul Bailey.

It is the year 2085 on Earth.  The planet was devastated by the dire consequences of the “millennium bug” (December 31st, 2000?).  A small number of people, mostly talented scientists, work to ensure the survival of mankind, even as this small number of people continue to divide themselves with feuds.  What the survivors don't know is that there is something worse in the deep beyond.

THE LOWDOWN:  I have seen writer-artist Mirka Andolfo's name around for the past several years, but I have not read any of her work, including her other Image Comics series, Mercy.  Since Image Comics is offering a PDF copy for review of Deep Beyond #1, I decided to have my first Mirka experience.

Andolfo does not draw Deep Beyond #1.  The art team is comprised of illustrator Andrea Broccardo (Star Wars: Doctor Aphra) and colorist Barbara Nosenzo, and the results of their work is a first issue that bares the naked truth about Deep Beyond's dystopian future:  things are really, f*****g screwed up.  Broccardo creates the bleakness and Nosenzo's colors create the terror, and, in this case, bleakness and terror are made inseparable.  So, yeah, Deep Beyond #1 looks like an especially intriguing read.

Here, Andolfo is co-writer and cover artist.  With co-writer David Goy, Andolfo throws a lot of narrative curve balls at the readers.  After this first issue, readers are left with a so many questions, and the few answers Andolfo and Goy do give us scare the crap out of me.  This first issue has two killer scenes, the kind that make readers believe that a particular comic book is the next hot thing.  I did not really expect much from Deep Beyond #1; now, I believe that I have to have the next issue.  So will you, dear readers.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mirka Andolfo will want to go Deep Beyond.

8 out of 10

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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