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Quick Look: Resident Evil #2
The second issue of the Resident Evil comic came out a couple days ago. I didn’t know what to think of the first issue and hoped the second issue would shed a little bit more light on this mini-series. Hit the break for more info…
Well the second issue is pretty much the same story as the first. I won’t go too much into it but people are still IN SPACE!!! I picked up this series because Wildstorm said it would explain all the events prior to the video game, Resident Evil 5; but we are two issues in and there still really isn’t any connections to the two.
The bottom line is the comic is not bad, but it feels just like a generic zombie comic with a Resident Evil skin. Similar to the comic adaptation of the upcoming video game Prototype, it does not have connect or flesh out any of their respective video game plots. I cannot suggest purchasing this comic unless you are a die hard Resident Evil fan, but you might just want to wait for the trade paper back. Wildstorm, please get it together for the rest of the series.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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