XOMBI #1
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Art and cover by FRAZER IRVING
Variant cover by BRENDAN MCCARTHY
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
I rememer reading and loving the Milestone books all those years ago, and it was the home of many great creative talents, many of whom are among the best in the industry today (JH Williams, John Paul Leon et al). Xombi always stood out for odd reasons, and it struck me as an unusual choice for resuscitation. It was always a more thoughtful and introspective book, especially when stacked against the swagger of the Blood Syndicate or the exuberance of Static. At times, as I recall, it was downright haunting and this made the new number one worth looking at. The art by Fraser Irving wasn't going to hurt either.
It delivers really well on both story and art. The plot itself quickly sets tone and character. There's the swiftest reintroduction of David Kim, giving you a brief sense of his character and a quick glimpse of his power, a result of his resurrection by nanites back in the day. Then David is launched headlong into a mission to prevent a breakout from an apparently religious jail called "The Prison of Industry." It's a compound designed to restrain the victims of occult possession who are beyond help and too big a threat to the world, and the rest of the book focusses on Kim and assorted characters attempts to stop and then investigate the breakout.
There's a word that kept coming to mind, which is that the book struck me as "Morrisonian", and I only mean that in the most complimentary way. There's an atmosphere here that seems to be occult adventurers by way of Morrison's classic Doom Patrol run, some of my favourite comics ever. It's wonderfully bizarre, while still making sense within it's own interior logic. David and the other protaganists are likeable, even with such little time to get to know them. And to cap it all, there's a last page cliffhanger that's exceedingly creepy.
It's all stunningly rendered by the garish (in a good way) art of Fraser Irving. It's more of what we're used to, in that it's unique, stylish but never forgoes storytelling for spectacle. It's detailed, moody and like nothing else you can find.
Xombi is away to the races with a first issue that's gorgeous, gripping and something different to everything else in my weekly stack. I've used far too many gushing adjectives in the last couple of paragraphs, but these are all the words that hit me as I read this comic. I hope enough other people feel the same way.
Art: 5 - Excellent
Indeed. This was very “Morrisonian” in many ways, especially, in terms of pacing. And Irving, what can be said? He is as much a master of colour (and with it, mood) as he is with his unique art style.
Loved your review.