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.

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: Pigs #6

It’s a perpetual prison break with the usual double-cross plot-thread and a solitary confinement for the target kinda bit. What manifests here is simply…nothing except the team gunning down the guys they hired to help them in their mission - stripped down to their bare essentials. It’s a botched job and reprisal. Nothing more. To alleviate this, McCool and Crosby use a remedial sex scene that adds a mystifying tension with Felix, Havana and Ekatarina…but still nothing lets on with the pace of the story.

Review: Pigs #5

Nate Cosby, Ben McCool and Breno Tamura’s series about a KGB sleeper cell in Cuba continues to be all kinds of awesome. We’re really starting to get to know some of the characters, particularly Felix, and this issue ramps up the intensity as it begins a new arc.

The team are assigned to break into a prison to make a kill, and tensions between Felix, Viktor and Havana boil over. A compromise is reached and a plan formed, but sufficed to say, things do not go well.

Review: Pigs #4

I first picked up Pigs on the basis of the story’s premise – the activation of a KGB sleeper Cell in Cuba. How awesome is that?! 4 issues in, the story hasn’t disappointed. Revolving around the children of a KGB cell, trained for a specific mission, Pigs is full of Russian mafia action.

Nate Cosby and Ben McCool have crafted a team of characters that have such a great dynamic – they are all different (although sometimes only subtly) and I love that team member and central character Felix no longer wants anything to do with the job, having carved a nice little life for himself in Cuba. Felix cops a whole lot of flak from the team, but it’s nice to see him being assertive in this issue.