And was surprised to find out that I had missed it. I guess The Great Escape only got a few copies, and since New Comic Day is Wednesday and I rarely get there before Friday, it had sold out by the time I made it to the store. I didn't even realize that until issue #2 showed up on the Recently Reduced tab on Comixologya few weeks back. And I thought about just ditching the print comic and going for the e. I mean...it was only one dollar cheaper (at $2.99), but a dollar is a dollar. And I have switched over to electronic versions of several titles now....
But I held off. I really wanted this one as a print comic book. And then I saw that Firefly #3 was due out this week, so I thought that maybe I could pick up #2 as a back issue while I was at it. But guess what? The Great Escape had sold out of #3 when I looked today. And they didn't have #2 in their back issues.
So I decided to bite the bullet and switch to the e-comic book.
And then I thought, "But first I'll check at The Zone."
Well.
Not only did they have the new issue #3, but they still had #2 on the stand at cover price. Now, The Zone doesn't do that 15% off thing that The Great Escape does for holds customers, so I ended up spending a buck and a quarter more than I would have at The Great Escape...and a couple of bucks more than I would have spent for them via Comixology...but I was happy. Hope you're happy two.
And as for the books in question?
#2 was truly awesome. Not only does Greg Pak know these characters and capture their voices, but he is actually funny, too. The art leans more to the Big Foot side of the spectrum, but it works for me here. The characters don't "look" that much like the actors in the show, but they do feel like them, if you know what I mean.
#3 felt like a little bit of a let-down. But I think part of that was the matter, not the art. We get into some pretty fuckin' serious gos se here, actually, and it's just a little hard to deal with. I'll leave it to you to discover what that means.
But I'm definitely going to be back for issue #4, and I think you'll be happy if you do that, too...after acquiring issues #1, #2, and #3, of course...by whatever means you find to be necessary. Speaking of, looks like there's going to be a collection of the first four issues in the not too distant future--April 24 2019--so if you want to wait a little longer, there's that. Comixology already has the digital version listed as On Sale for $9.49 (
Oh, speaking of...if you do go for the single print copies, I think you'll be pleased with the production values on this. Very nice cover stock, and the paper for the interior pages is much nicer than you get from The Other Guys. Also, the folks at BOOM! know how do to things right, so you get 22 uninterrupted story pages, then a teaser for the next issue, a two-page letters column (man, I miss those things), and THEN seven pages of ads. DC and Marvel should take a lesson from this. I am so tired of getting halfway through a Twinkies ad before I realize it's not part of the story.
Oh, one more thing. No, two more things. One Good, One Bad.
The Good Thing: I just realized that the artwork (by Dan McDaid) reminds me a bit of Keith Giffen back in the day...like around his later Legion of Super-Heroes stuff. I love that stuff. But it's just a little reminder, not a rip-off.
The Bad Thing: It's tiny. Hardly worth mentioning. But on the letters pages, they print the readers's words in black ink, but the responses are printed in yellow. I mean...yellow? Who thought THAT was a good idea?
Man...now I have to wait a whole month for another issue.
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