Black Science #1 Review

By: Rob Neil Gruszecki

An explosion erupting in a slew of purple and black cascades throughout the cosmos. Fish creatures riding on beasts of threatening presence franticly thrash as they charge through a strange world’s forest. Two scientists horrified and pursued, run for their lives to the edge of a cliff on the back of a turtle’s shell. Grant McKay, a scientist in an assembly of anarchists, punctures through the fabric of space and visits parallel dimensions with bio-electric charged inhabitants whose energy beams bursting through their heads ends up being a pretty effective weapon, and a myriad other wild and unbelievable evolutions all unique and precious to their own microcosm. The fantastic and dangerous world of Black Science is one brimming with imagination, exotic character design and dark consequences rippling through the lives of humans who make it their purpose to toy with the fundamentals of the known universe.

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Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland #1 Review

By: Rob Neil Gruszecki

    Driving down a cold winter road in his Rolls-Royce Wraith, Charlie Talent Manx speaks of a magical land where every morning you can have the joy of waking up to the arctic eye, the great sleighcoaster and the ice maze. In the back seat, a frightened child pulls her knees up to her chest and quakes with fear after being abducted and driven across a highway with this maniac. Charlie regales his guest with his tale of abuse, depravity, cruelty and eventual relief in Christmasland where every morning promises joy and wonder.

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Unity #1 Review

By: Rob Neil Gruszecki

After years of imprisonment by the alien race known as the Vine, Aric of Dacia, a Visigoth warrior, led a rebellion that resulted in his acquisition of the X-O Manowar armour and the subsequent time travel bringing him to present day Romania. Declaring this modern land his new kingdom he has incited quite a fervent war effort that could potentially explode into a global conflict. Commissioned to remove this king from his self imposed throne, a team is assembled under the banner of Unity. The resulting battle will eventually bring together some of the most powerful heroes the Valiant universe have at their disposal and establish a flagship group that welds the continuity of an entire line of comics into a streamlined and connected world.

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Drumhellar #1 Review

By: Rob Neil Gruszecki

    Drum Hellar, a paranormal detective, stands with his golf club held upwards in a lightning storm, flames licking the tips of his tattered purple bathrobe after being struck. The electric charge brings about a psychedelic trance that involves a majestic peacock, a golden egg bursting with energy and a trip through a swirling portal that reaches down into a parallel world of lush prairie land and marsh. Searching for his drugs and tripping through past lives with his “post-corporeal” companion, Herald, a ghost cat, Drum bumbles along, ever the laid back paleobotanist whose adventures range through rural realms as well as dimensions of fantasy and cognitive expansion.

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Amazing X-Men #1 Review

By: Rob Neil Gruszecki

    Kurt Wagner was once the X-Men we know as Nightcrawler. Now he sits at a precipice in a world of eternal glory after his death within the land of mortals and longs for his life amongst fellow mutants and the torture and pain that would come with it. As Azazel bursts through the fabric of heaven he meets Nightcrawler and behind him an army of devilish Bamfs follow to claim the plane for themselves and dispose of Kurt in the process. Meanwhile a lost and confused Firestar wanders the campus at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning in search of any sane conversation and hopefully her classroom where eager physics students await their lesson.  What follows is the inevitable lockdown that the student body have come to expect and an assembly of the mutant teachers to investigate a mysterious portal that also spits out a slew of these demonic Bamfs.

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