TIME WARP #1

Review by: yeasayer

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Story by Dan Abnett, Matt Kindt, Damon Lindelof, Peter Milligan, Toby Litt, Ray Fawkes, Simon Spurrier, Tom King, & Gail Simone
Art by Mark Buckingham, Jeff Lemire, MK Perker, Victor Santos Montesinos, Jorge Corona, Rafael Albuquerque, Tom Fowler, I.N.J. Culbard, & Various
Cover by Eduardo Risso
Variant Cover by Jae Lee

Size: 80 pages
Price: 7.99

Tackling each story with a few lines each.

R.I.P. (Lindelof/Lemire) – Good solid story. Not read any Rip Hunter before, but the story speaks for itself, and has a good emotional core to it. Great art by Lemire, showing Rip at various ages very skilfully. 8/10

It’s Full Of Demons (King/Fowler) – Mysterious time travelling figures, mental illness and altering the course of history are tackled here. Big twist ending, but foreshadowed throughout. I liked how the passage of time was shown here. 7/10

I Have What You Need (Simone/Bertrand) – Completely not what I was expecting from a time travel anthology, but all the better for it. Gail Simone tells a very interesting tale set in a sweet shop, with a sort of Willy Wonka-esque figure (but really trippy/psychadelic). Nice LGBT moment in it, as well as deus ex machina moments, but forgivable because it ties up very nicely, and with strong feel good themes throughout. 8/10

The Grudge (Spurrier/Dowling) – Definitely the most mature of the stories in the book (so many sexual acts are referenced here), but Spurrier also uses some hard science, so the balance isn’t too sci-fi or low brow. Stunning art from Michael Dowling, even if the story isn’t quite up to the same standard. 7/10

Dead Boy Detectives (Buckingham/Santos) Part 2, so I had no idea what was happening. Not judging though.

She’s Not There (Milligan/Perker) – Ghost/memory retrieval story, with Law & Order style twist thrown in. Not groundbreaking, but the story comes through the art very well, with unlikable characters, and ghostly apparitions. Love the use of perspective on page 3, panel 4 of this story. 8/10

00:00:03 (Fawkes/Macdonald) Unfortunately, this was the weakest of the stories in Time Warp. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t my cup of tea particularly. Huge blocks of techno-jargon, mixed with art that didn’t get the initial story across clearly enough, it didn’t feel like an easy read, even though the story Fawkes is telling is quite basic. I liked the concept of it, I just felt that the execution wasn’t quite there. 5/10

Warning Danger (Kindt) – Love Kindt’s art, but the story isn’t as good as I had hoped/expected. It’s an interesting concept, and the use of captions of the weapons used work well, but in the end it doesn’t have as much of an emotional bite as some of the other stories here. 7/10

The Principle (Abnett/Culbard) – Hitler’s second appearance in this anthology, and almost the exact same story as the first, but told from a different perspective, and with a different outcome. How these two stories were allowed to be told in the same book is mind boggling, as they are bizarrely exactly the same, and yet the complete opposite of each other. Anyway, Culbard’s art is an acquired taste, but I enjoyed it here, and Abnett keeps the dialogue to a minimum, making this a breezy read. Good fun, and raises some interesting questions of morality. 8/10

The art in this book merits a 5, as there are lots of different styles, each working in it’s own story, while also making up a larger, cohesive whole. The stories are generally very good, therefore meriting a 4.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 5 - Excellent

Comments

  1. Great review, I totally agree. I still have not read The Principle yet, but I agreed with mostly everything you said. I loved It’s Full Of Demons, RIP, and She’s Not There. The Grudge I didn’t enjoy as much because I was hoping for more of a payoff, but it was interesting.

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