100 Word Hits – Comic Reviews #11
Welcome to the latest installment of our new column 100 Word Hits, in association with comics retailer The Unreality Store, in which Matthew De Monti brings us short, sharp reviews of the latest books to hit comic stores over the past month or so!
Avengers 1,000,000 BC #1
Written by Jason Aaron | Art by Kev Walker
‘Revealed! The Phoenix’s connection to the birth of Thor!’ screams the cover. What pray tell do Aaron & Walker have in store for us?
Well, essentially there’s a bizarre love triangle between Odin, Phoenix and Gaea with some frost giants thrown in as villains. Phoenix spurns Odin at the altar, Odin hooks up with Gaea and they conceive Thor, the frost giants come back for revenge and freeze baby Thor who’s promptly reignited back to life by the Phoenix power. The other Avengers hang around and mutter a bit but really don’t add anything to the story.
That’s about your lot.
Rating: 6.5/10
The Silver Coin #13
Written by Johnnie Christmas | Art by Michael Walsh
July 1999 and Karena and Brett have discovered they are having a baby. Fast forward to 31st December and she’s in a phone box screaming down the receiver at him about his infidelities. Running out of money she find a mysterious coin in the drawer her waters break and she’s rushed to hospital. Then things go mental. In hospital Karena is transported to the world of the Coin as she will be the birthing mother for one the entities seeking enter our dimension at the stroke of midnight of the new millennium.
Blood gore and chaos ensue. Happy New Year!
Rating: 9/10
Samurai Doggy #1
Written by Chris Tex | Art by Santtos
Left for dead by his mother’s killer and with his siblings kidnapped, Samurai Doggy is rescued by his future mentor the robotic vulture Rei. Fast forward 20 years and he’s still trying to track down his lost brothers and sisters and
quest brings him to the city of Skypanel. There his attempts to pick up their scent leads him into a to amusement park being run by gangsters who don’t welcome him pushing his snout into their business.
Tex’s script is entertaining and Santtos’s art has a fluid dynamic style that totally fits the story. Yet another winner for Aftershock!
