Viva la revolutione!
Perhaps it’s just my fetish for old propaganda posters that does it, but the cover to Dead@17: Revolution #1 is damn beautiful. (Something like that on a t-shirty thing wouldn’t be wrong at all.) The content inside looks good too, but it isn’t in the same style as the cover.
Just as between the first two series, a little time has passed so it doesn’t pick up the moment after. In fact, the “previously on” info-block states that several months have gone by since Blood of Saints—this explains a few things pretty well. I won’t go up and down about the plot, but thankfully one leftover since the previous series was (almost) over and done with in two snippets of dialogue. Wonderful, as I feared it would stretch out even further and just be annoying.
This is the first proper comic I’ve read from Viper. Everything else has been trade paperbacks or in the prestige format. But it has an amazing quality over it. The images are clear and the colours amazing. People who know me however know I’m not fond of glossy paper. I’ve been know, from time to time, to rant for hours about the evils and abusive usage of glossy paper from publishing companies. I’ve refused to read magazines just because they’ve “upgraded” to glossy crap. But here, I didn’t mind. I didn’t mind. At all. I didn’t even reflect about it until I’ve put down the comic. Really impressive actually. (And damn fine glossy paper I must add.)
Since I didn’t go through the plot-points one by one, I’ll instead write about Raw Feed. No, not Greg Gatlin’s blog but his essayich thing with the same name in the issue. It’s entitled “How to make a comic the Viper way” and in 9 simple steps everything about the Viper way is explained. More or less. I’m not sure I believe the monkey stuff. After all they’re a small press comic company, how could they afford 50 000 monkeys? But I like that their choice of font “must be crisp and durable and able to be read by Stevie Wonder.” Inspiring words to live by.
