They come in and messes up with the alien. A lot of the Alien stuff always used to play it safe with the same here’s the military. This is really expanding the mythology in a big way, which is something that I didn’t necessarily expect. So, the fact that we can still get great stories and fresh takes on this is pretty amazing.Īlex: Yeah. I mean, we’ve seen Alien everything at this point. Phillip Kennedy Johnson has been just absolutely killing it lately and this is just another example of him being an amazing writer. This does a great job of letting you know what’s up and getting you excited for what’s to come. I mean, numbering is a real pet peeve of mine, but this book is such a cool idea of we’ve seen a lot of different things, but setting up this super team to go in there is interesting and new. Even though I get annoyed with the renumbering thing, I thought this was great, just another great story in the Aliens that he is crafting. The spoilers here, since it slowly unfolds what the actual plot of the thing is, but we start off on an ideal community that of course gets ruined by Weyland-Yutani and then a bunch of elite Androids are sent to retrieve some information from there by the end of the issue. Pete: This guy, Philip Kennedy Johnson, I mean, can he do anything wrong with this stuff? Holy crap.Īlex: So, this is, even with the number one, still a continuation of the previous Alien book. They say you can’t judge a book by the cover, but here, the covers are the book.Īlex: I’m glad we script these out in advance.Īlex: Let’s move on and talk about Alien #1 from Marvel, written by Philip Kennedy Johnson, art by Julius Ohta. Pete: Well, I was just going to say the covers are the book.Īlex: The covers are the book. Pete: Because someone like me, who’s just going to read the covers and not just going to look at the covers and not do any of the reading, it’s too bad because you would be missing out on such a fun reveal.Īlex: They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but here, the covers are judging the book. Pete: It’s a reward for reading, which is nice. So, that’s a little added bonus puzzle as well, but overall, this is a really great package. You can go back, add in some of the clues, and figure it out. If you read the clues on the text pages carefully, you find out who that is at the end. The other thing that’s fun, which I won’t spoil here, but there is a mystery villain who is taunting Batman. It’s psychological thing a little bit, but it really bumps it up a next level to feel a little more necessary, a little more important.Īlex: So, just for that calculated way, it’s very smartly done and very smartly executed. It is gorgeous and detailed throughout, but this gives it that extra added value that makes it to a story. Even if I dearly love the artist like I do Lee Bermejo’s work, particularly on Batman. To be perfectly honest, even though it’s always nice to look at them as a comic book fan, I don’t always have an impetus to go and pick up a cover collection. That’s the thing that I think is really interesting because we’ve seen cover collections before. So, just to have every panel be treated like a cover is an interesting idea.Īlex: Well, they were covers that he created that he organized into a story and that’s the thing that I think-Īlex: Oh, okay. I mean, comics are just still images anyway. I mean, he did the ropes around his hands, which is wutai type of badass thing to do that protects your wrist, but really hurts your opponent. I mean, the arts, the real good important part about this, and it’s a very goon-ish gritty take on Batman, very muscly and dark. This is a very unique project, because it is covers that Bermejo has done for Batman, that he has organized into a story and added new text pages of a serial killer who is terrifying Gotham and trying to taunt Batman the entire time. I’m Alex.Īlex: On The Stack, we talk about a slew of books that have come out this very week and we’re going to kick it off with a special one, Batman: Dear Detective #1 Batman from DC Comics written by Lee Bermejo. SUPPORT OUR SHOWS ON PATREON.Īlex: What is up, everybody? Welcome to The Stack. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER, INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK. SUBSCRIBE ON RSS, APPLE, ANDROID, SPOTIFY, STITCHER OR THE APP OF YOUR CHOICE. PacatĪrt by Caspar Wjingaard, Sean Izaakse, Michele Bandini Written by Tom Taylor, Jay Kristoff, C.S. Written by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kellyīlack Adam: The Justice Society Files – Atom Smasher #1ĭark Knights of Steel: Tales from the Three Kingdoms #1 Written by Geoff Johns, Tim Sheridan and Jeremy Adams On this week’s comic book review podcast:
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