Renaldo's Reviews: Dancer #2, Conan #5, Mind the Gap #2, The Strain #5

Dancer #2 –

Well, first issue was good and here, the plot twists are obvious. I kind of did not want to actually deal with the obvious clone factor…yes…clone factor. We have a retired assassin on the lam…from his younger clone…who lures him out of hiding by kidnapping his girl. It’s a bit clichéd and mish-mashed but somehow, Nathan Edmondson does well enough on the story to have me attached for the next issue. Nic Klein also gives me that Francavilla feel that I love with his visuals but unless there’s a grand deus ex machina in issue 3…I’ll be dropping.

Review: Mind the Gap #2

This series is one of the better being written right now, it’s a mystery book of the “who dun it” variety! McCan has crafted a story around a young girl in a coma, Elle, who was attacked and put there by someone she knows, someone named in the first issue. The second continues directly after and plays off the possession in the last.

All I can say is woah, the twists and turns continue!

Renaldo's Reviews: Pigs #7, Skeleton Key, Epic Kill #1, Vescell #7, Mind the Gap #1, Smallville #1-3

Pigs #7 –

Nate Crosby and Ben McCool are just raw and gritty as they hammer a comic with a bunch of Russian sleeper agents activated from Cuba with intent to overthrow the US government. These mercs or killers or whatever they evolved into by now are brutal and gruesome as they make a pit stop at a prison to destroy some Nazis. It’s Inglorious Basterds meets Mark Millar…and the gore, while not as bloody as one would think, isn’t the eye-catcher.

Review: Mind the Gap #1

There have been a lot of really unique stories being told through the independent publishers of late which means to stand out an issue or series has to be something really special. We’re only one issue into “Mind the Gap” and I already feel like I’ve read the best comic of 2012. In this first issue we are introduced to a menagerie of characters all surrounding the main protagonist, Ellis. Ellis has been admitted into a hospital where she lays unresponsive in a coma. When we get to see things from Ellis’ point of view the situation becomes very beautiful and the race is on to discover the mystery of her attacker who has been named but not identified within this phenomenal first issue.

Renaldo's Reviews: Pigs #7, Skeleton Key, Epic Kill #1, Vescell #7, Mind the Gap #1, Smallville #1-3

Pigs #7 –

Nate Crosby and Ben McCool are just raw and gritty as they hammer a comic with a bunch of Russian sleeper agents activated from Cuba with intent to overthrow the US government. These mercs or killers or whatever they evolved into by now are brutal and gruesome as they make a pit stop at a prison to destroy some Nazis. It’s Inglorious Basterds meets Mark Millar…and the gore, while not as bloody as one would think, isn’t the eye-catcher.

Review: Mind the Gap #1

There have been a lot of really unique stories being told through the independent publishers of late which means to stand out an issue or series has to be something really special. We’re only one issue into “Mind the Gap” and I already feel like I’ve read the best comic of 2012. In this first issue we are introduced to a menagerie of characters all surrounding the main protagonist, Ellis. Ellis has been admitted into a hospital where she lays unresponsive in a coma. When we get to see things from Ellis’ point of view the situation becomes very beautiful and the race is on to discover the mystery of her attacker who has been named but not identified within this phenomenal first issue.