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Review: ‘Clone’ #5
Ultraviolence is always a eye-catching way to start a chapter. Secret government projects are always fun too. It’s hard to miss when you throw in guns ablazing, father-son time on a macro scale, ultimatums, and truths into the spotlight in Clone #5.
WRITTEN BY: David Schulner
ART BY: Juan Jose Ryp
PUBLISHER: Skybound / Image Comics
PRICE: $2.99
RELEASE: 27 March 2013
Bullets and brothers are flying all over this issue. Juan Jose Ryp excels at gory wounds and gun fights here. The action kicks into another gear as we rejoin Luke and his ever growing family tree. When your mysterious dad sends a chopper to bring you in to meet the family, you get on board.
Family drama is another big part of the many storylines going on in this book. The back room dealings of politics allows for a totally different story to push along the other side of this clone saga. It all comes to a head that makes this medium so addicting.
What happens next?
It all feels like the second last episode of a good season of TV. Things are set up for a strong finale. I’ve been impressed by Schulner and Ryp’s super-crazy “family” book. Now it’s all about the ending. It can make or break a story. No pressure, clones. But make it a good one, please.
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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