SPACEMAN #1 (OF 9)
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Art by EDUARDO RISSO
Cover by DAVE JOHNSON
Size: 0 pages
Price: 1.00
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Wait, you mean this isn't about 30 Rock's Dr. Leo Spaceman? Aw.
This continues Azzarello and Risso's brief prologue tale from Strange Adventures, a sci-fi anthology book that I generally loved -- except for the Spaceman backup.
The idea itself is promising -- a man genetically engineered to explore Mars ekes out a living as a junk scavenger on a flooded dystopian Earth -- but in this issue, as in Strange Adventures, the dialogue is a real obstacle. Syntactically jumbled future-talk is a staple of science fiction, and it can be an important part of the world-building of sci-fi, but this isn't A Clockwork Orange: There just aren't enough words here (especially with such a laconic writing style as Azzarello's) to help you decipher what they're saying without a bit of a slog.
The Risso art is fantastic, shadowy and moody. Occasionally this worked to the book's disadvantage, though: The last three pages were confusing to me at first, because you have two silhouetted male figures whose clearest distinguishing characteristic is that one has a hat and the other doesn't. But then, for one page, the man with the hat doesn't have his hat on, and then suddenly does on the next page. The scene read fine the second time through.
Between this and Orchid, another dystopian the-world-is-flooded story going on at Dark Horse, I'd probably recommend this one. The main stumbling block is that, month to month, it's going to be a problem having to remember how these characters talk. Maybe the dialogue will read a little better in trade.
I've got Dr. Spaceman to entertain me while I wait.
Story: 3 - Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
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