#IReadsYou Review: NIGHT CLUB #1

NIGHT CLUB #1 (OF 6)
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STORY: Mark Millar
ART: Juanan Ramírez
COLORS: Fabiana Mascolo
LETTERS: Clem Robins
COVER: Juanan Ramírez with Giovanna Niro
EDITORIAL: Sarah Unwin
VARIANT COVER ARTIST: Greg Capullo with Giovanna Niro; Matteo Scalera with Giovanna Niro
28pp, Color, $1.99 U.S. (December 2022)

Rated M / Mature

Night Club created by Mark Millar at Netflix

Night Club is a new six-issue miniseries written and created by Mark Millar and drawn by Juanan Ramírez.  An Image Comics publication and a Netflix production, Night Club focuses on a teen boy who is bitten by a vampire and decides to make the best of his new condition.  Colorist Fabiana Mascolo and letterer Clem Robins complete Night Club's creative team.

Night Club #1 introduces 17-year-old Danny Garcia.  He has roped his pals, DJ Sam Huxley and Amy Chen, into his scheme to gain fame and fortune as a YouTube star.  Things go awry and a vampire bites him.  So what should Danny do?  Should he live like a stereotypical vampire?  Or should he live crazy, sexy, cool like he has always wanted?

THE LOWDOWN:  Netflix/Millarworld sends me PDF review copies of the their comic books.  Thus, I was lucky enough to get a review copy of Night Club #1.

For the past three years, Image Comics has been publishing its best vampire comic book series, Rodney Barnes and Jason Shawn Alexander's Killadelphia.  Now, it appears that Image's may be offering its best vampire comic book miniseries, which I assume will be Night Club.  Mark Millar does what he always does, present a first issue that offers the perfect balance of character introduction, world building, and teasing of what is to come.  I find that I want to be in this world, and I really, really want to know more about it.

Juanan Ramírez's art brings Millar's story to life as a graphical narrative that zips across the pages and crackles with possibilities.  I also like how Ramírez's art always seems to be in the face of the characters, a move which made me want to invest in them.  The colors by Fabiana Mascolo are great, especially the scenes that take place at night and in the dark.  The coloring is another element that makes Night Club #1 stand out from other vampire comic books.  As usual, there is nothing like letterer Clem Robin's score – so to speak.

I'm recommending Night Club #1 because I know that the next issue is when the doors of the series really get blown open.  So you need to come into the club now.  It's a five-star type of place.

Also, to whomever designed that logo:  killer design, boo.  It recalls the spirit of Warren Publications and Hammer Productions.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mark Millar and of vampire comic books will want read Night Club.

A+

10 out of 10

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


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#IReadsYou Review: BETTIE PAGE and the Alien Agenda Volume 6 #1

BETTIE PAGE AND THE ALIEN AGENDA VOLUME 6 #1
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STORY: Ani-Mia
ART: Celor
COLORS: Farah Nurmaliza
LETTERS: Carlos M. Mangual
EDITOR: Matt Idelson
COVER: Joseph Michael Linsner;
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Joseph Michael Linsner; Josh Burns; Stephane Roux, Jimmy Broxton, Ani-Mia; Celor; Ken Haeser
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (March 2022)

Rated Teen+

Bettie Page (1923–2008) was an American model who gained notoriety in the 1950s for her pin-up photos.  She is still referred to has the “Queen of Pinups,” and her shoulder-to-armpit-length jet-black hair with its trademark bangs and her blue eyes have inspired generations of artists, illustrators and comic book artists.

In 2017, Dynamite Entertainment made Bettie Page the star of her own comic book miniseries.  The latest is Bettie Page and the Alien Agenda Volume 6.  It is written by Ani-Mia; drawn by Celor; colored by Farah Nurmaliza; and lettered by Carlos M. Mangual.  The series finds Bettie searching for answers concerning an alien conspiracy.

Bettie Page and the Alien Agenda Volume 6 #1 opens sometime in the late 1950s.  Bettie Page is lounging poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California.  Her long needed vacation, however, is interrupted by an old friend, Colonel Westbrook.

After a nearly a decade, the government is still struggling with the UFO that crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.  According to Westbrook, what the government scientists and researchers have discovered worries them.  It seems that the alien pilots of the craft, who have yet to be found, have a stockpile of something somewhere on Earth.

The United States military wants Bettie to discover what the stockpile is and has offered her an investigative team to help.  So Bettie travels to the University of Washington in Seattle to meet her team.  However, Bettie is really on her own, as the military will disavow the existence of both the investigation and Bettie!

THE LOWDOWN:   In July 2021, Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department began providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles.  The latest is Bettie Page and the Alien Agenda Volume 6 #1, which is the fourth issue of a Dynamite Bettie Page comic book that I have read.

Writer Ani-Mia previously wrote the miniseries, Bettie Page and the Bigfoot Bandits, which I did not read.  Bettie Page and the Alien Agenda has an easy pace, but Ani-Mia uses that pace to give the supporting characters some rather entertaining personalities.

Artist Celor draws in a simple, almost generic style, but his storytelling style fits this series better than it did his previous work, the Kiss: Phantom Obsession miniseries.  Here, the mood is like an Indiana Jones movie made for the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries cable network.  Celor seems, in his own unique way, to have created a sense of intrigue.

Dear readers, if you are into the legends surrounding the Roswell crash, you may be interested in trying Bettie Page and the Alien Agenda.  I am ready for the second issue.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Bettie Page comic books will want to try Bettie Page and the Alien Agenda Volume 6.

B

★★★ out of 4 stars

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


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#IReadsYou Review: JAMES BOND: Himeros #1

JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #1
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STORY: Rodney Barnes
ART: Antonio Ruso
COLORS: Adriano Augusto
LETTERS: Social Myth Studios
EDITOR: Joe Rybandt
COVER: Francesco Francavilla
VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Butch Guice; Francesco Francavilla;
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (October 2021)

Rated T+

Based on the characters and stories created by Ian Fleming

“James Bond” is a fictional British Secret Service agent created by Ian Fleming, a British writer and novelist.  Fleming introduced James Bond in the 1953 novel, Casino Royale, and featured the character in 12 novels and two short-story collections.  Of course, most people know Bond because of Eon Productions' long-running James Bond-007 film series, which began with the 1962 film, Dr. No.

Over the past 50+ years, Bond has made sporadic appearances in comic books, but Dynamite Entertainment has been steadily publishing James Bond comic books since early 2016.  Their latest James Bond comic book is James Bond: Himeros.  It is written by Rodney Barnes; drawn by Antonio Ruso; colored by Adriano Augusto; and lettered by Social Myth Studios.  In Himeros, 007 finds himself caught in a web of powerful people who will kill to keep their child sex trafficking secrets from coming to light.

James Bond: Himeros #1 opens in Her Majesty's Prison Belmarsh, London.  Richard Wilhelm is imprisoned there.  He is the billionaire financier infamous for trafficking underage children from various parts of the world to his secret island in the South Pacific.  Before long, he is dead, and while he was murdered, the public is told that he died by suicide.

At MI6, M has called Agent James Bond to find Wilhelm's right hand man, Sarah Richmond, and bring her to London before the people that killed her boss kill her.  However, Anton Bates, the man who ordered Wilhelm killed, is well-connected to very powerful people, and he hires the best killers...

THE LOWDOWN:  Dynamite Entertainment's marketing department recently began providing me with PDF review copies of some of their titles.  One of them is James Bond: Himeros #1, which is one of several Dynamite James Bond comic books I've read.

I am a huge fan of Himeros' writer, Rodney Barnes, because of his supreme vampire comic book, Killadelphia; his tragically canceled Marvel Comics series, Falcon; and his young Lando Calrissian comic book, Star Wars: Lando.  Barnes is very good at creating comic book stories in which the characters face tremendous consequences and have a lot to lose.  Barnes' narratives are also fueled a sense of dread and of menace.

Antonio Ruso's art and storytelling comes at the readers like lightning-quick punches, and Adriano Augusto colors capture the exotic settings and moods of traditional James Bond fiction.  “Himeros” is the Greek god of sexual desire, and after reading James Bond: Himeros #1, you will desire it, dear readers, and desire more.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of James Bond comic books will want to try James Bond: Himeros.

A

★★★★ out of 4 stars

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


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