Archive for August, 2007
August 7, 2007 | Comics
Outsiders: Five Of A Kind — Nightwing/Boomerang #1
Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, Freddie Williams II
DC Comics
$3.65/$2.99 US
*** ½ (out of five)
And you think you’ve got a tough boss…?
Batman’s reclaiming leadership of the Outsiders and his first task is putting the current members — Nightwing, Katana, Metamorpho, Thunder, Grace and Captain Boomerang Jr. — through their paces to see if they live up to his lofty standards.
The first test sees Nightwing and Boomer blasting into space to investigate a space station that may have been taken over by the toxic monster, Chemo.
Can they survive this mystery in space long enough to find out which of the duo will make the cut and join Batman’s new team?
The future of the Outsiders begins here.
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August 7, 2007 | Comics
The Chemist #1
Jay Boose
Image Comics
$3.75/$3.50 US
*** 1/2 (out of five)
Vance LaRoche just got stabbed in the back.
He was supposed to be making the kind of exchange he always makes — reverse-engineered pharmaceuticals for stacks of cash — but the organized crooks he deal with decided his services were no longer required and now he’s lost the drugs and the money and finds himself saddled with the beautiful Alex, the person set up to make the exchange with him.
As he races back home to Montreal with Alex in tow, LaRoche needs to figure out what changed his relationship with his employers and why they want him dead.
And while it’s clear the cops have an eye on him, is there a third party interested in him?
The Chemist, created, written and illustrated by Pixar Studios animator Jay Boose, is top-notch crime-noir and has all the makings of an outstanding series.
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August 7, 2007 | Comics
Hiding In Time #1
Christopher Long, Ryan Winn
Image Comics
$4.15/$3.50 US
*** (out of five)
Hiding people who testify against criminals in small-town, U.S.A. isn’t working as well as it used to, so the Witness Protection Program has found a better place to stick them: The past.
But when two witnesses are hunted down in two different time periods and murdered, technician Nathan Crew finds himself ordered to go back to colonial America to save a third person from being gunned down.
Hiding In Time, written by Christopher Long and illustrated by Ryan Winn, has a really intriguing idea behind it and if the payoff is as good as the setup it will be a great new title.
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