Yep, just one comic book this week. And not even one I was aware was coming out.
Human Remains #1. From Vault Comics. It's been a long time since I bought a Vault Comics comic book. I was pretty fond of them way back when...especially when they were doing those super-de-dooper cool homage covers. But that was...two years ago, believe it or not. I wasn't actually interested in picking up this one when I saw the cover, but I noticed that it was a #1, and I try to at least take a little taste of anything new, just to give it a chance, and when I did, I saw that it was written by none other than Peter Milligan (whose Skreemer made a huge impression on me way back in 1989), so I decided to buy it. To be honest, if anything else had been out I probably wouldn't have done so, but Suicide Squad #8, which I'd been expecting, was nowhere to be seen (and is now listed as coming out October 19th--I swear it's not me, these publishers keep shifting the dates underneath me). And I did pick up Jennifer Blood #1 to have a look, but (1) the art was really ugly and (2) I caught a glimpse of a scene where someone's intestines had been yanked out of their body, and that's all I needed to know about that book.
So I picked up Human Remains #1. And I just finished reading it. And? Well...I haven't seen A Quiet Place (or AQP2, for that matter)...but if I'm correct in thinking that the gist of it is that you have to be very quiet all of the time or nasty creatures will eat you, then I think I can safely say that Human Remains is a rip-off of that movie. Or movie series. In this comic book, the only twist is that the creatures are attracted to emotions which are proclaimed loudly, which I suppose is almost a slightly different thing, but not quite. A ripped-off and / or stupid concept isn't necessarily a deal breaker when it comes to comic book love (alas that it should be so and alas alas that it should be uttered), but there's more not to my liking here. For one thing, there was a lot of blood and guts. More than the glimpse I had in Jennifer Blood #1, actually. For another thing, there was a lot of death in this issue, but not a single character had been developed at all, so it really was hard to care very much that this was happening. Stephen King would have given us about a hundred and thirty pages of character development before he mutilated a character. Also, as I recall Vault Comics gave pretty good bang for the buck back in the day, but that day seems to have passed. This comic was 20 pages and done. And as if all of that weren't enough, the art was pretty sub-standard, I'm sorry to say. So nope, I won't be back for issue #2. Sorry, Mr. Milligan.
Next Weeks Comics:
Mazebook #2--still at $5.99, and I'm pretty sure that I'll be passing on that one, since I bought issue #1 and wasn't impressed with it.
Static: Season One #4--which I'm hoping actually appears, because I love this book. Probably my favorite comic going right now.
Hardware: Season One #3--same here, just slightly less good, but still great.
Mamo #4--Didn't realize this was coming out, and I am really excited about it. This is such a superb book. Good job, Boom!
Also, I saw several titles listed which were from Second Sight Publishing...of which I'd never heard anything before. So maybe that's a good sign, that a new company is testing the water in a pretty big way. Have to say none of the titles looked interesting to me, but hey, there's room for all kinds of folks out there, right?
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