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Review: ‘Great Pacific’ #4
Trash, guns, sea monsters, and a mysterious French woman. What more could you ask for? This is the solid set up to the latest chapter of Joe Harris’ Great Pacific. The series continues to grow out from its original seed of garbage into something new and fresh.
WRITTEN BY: Joe Harris
ART BY: Martin Morazzo
PUBLISHER: Image Comics
PRICE: $2.99
RELEASE: February 6th, 2013
The creative team continues to lay down the growing story in an efficient and effective manner. Writer Joe Harris mixes in progression with nuggets of knowledge about pollution, economics, and big business. I never thought I would write this about a comic book but I am slowly becoming interested in these topics and how they apply to our story. Don’t worry, it is not preaching values. Rather it feels more like BKV’s classic “Ex Machina” series. “Great Pacific” still holds true to its aspects of the fantastic, as every book should.
Chas and Zoe, his new friend from France, try to survive without any of the technological toys they originally brought to the party. Along the way, they encounter monsters and learn more about how the island came into existence. Other interested parties begin appearing as well. I look forward to seeing how this will pay off down the road.
Morazzo’s art is consistently engaging and highly detailed. His panels are definitely worth going over to see all his hard work.
I know I’ve said it before but I am becoming more and more convinced that this would make for a really entertaining television series. The pacing is solid, plot twists come fast and furiously, and the the muted color scheme keeps the visuals constantly engaging.
4/5 Skulls
Reviewed by – Your Friendly Neighborhood Brady
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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