Comics

[Comic Book Review] “The Ghost Fleet” #2 Is Complex, Absorbing Fun

Published

9 years ago

December 3, 2014

“Ghost Fleet” is back for round two and it’s a knockout. Issue #1 intrigued me, a comic about big trucks goin’ fast and smashing shit on the surface but with the glimmers of something deeper. That something deeper is what issue #2 opens with and now it’s got me hook line and sinker. The mysteries are boundless and my questions are counting up to immeasurable levels. However, this never feels cheap or lazy, it’s a deep seeded mystery that becomes exponentially more exciting with every teenie-tiny tidbit and kernel of information.

WRITTEN BY: Donny Cates

ART BY: Daniel Warren Johnson

PUBLISHER: Dark Horse

PRICE: $3.99

RELEASE: December 3, 2014

Reviewed By Torin Chambers

The opening scene alone has so much new information and new mysteries it’s almost staggering when you really think about it. I’m not even sure where to begin. A Senator named Roland Cohle walks down an industrial looking hall, wearing a red hooded cloak. He comes to a wooden door with an incredible design, it looks like something HP Lovecraft would think up, that doesn’t fit in with its surroundings. Possibly the facility was built around it?

Next to the door is a fingerprint analyzer that Cohle must use to gain access to “The Silhouette,” an ominous backdoor shady government cult name if ever there was one. Things only escalate exponentially from here. The room contains a raised platform, surrounded by a small lake of what looks like blood. On this platform there are numerous others dressed like Cohle sitting around a fire with a few armed guards overlooking them. On top of all that there’s a massive carving of what appears to be an owl overseeing everything in the room, their God/Master?

All of that happens in the first 3 pages, I can never stop reading Ghost Fleet now until I know what that was all about. Not that I wouldn’t read it regardless, you could take away all the intrigue and you’ve still got genuinely funny humor and balls to the wall action. Ghost Fleet is definitive proof that you can have stupid fun and tell a complex, absorbing story all at the same time.

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Torin Chambers is a rad dude from the nineties who does film stuff or something. Thomas the Tank Engine is his favorite transformer. Find him on Twitter @TorinsChambers

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Comics

‘Witchblade’ is Getting Resurrected This Summer in New Comic Series from Top Cow and Image Comics

Published

7 days ago

April 18, 2024

Meagan Navarro

Witchblade, the popular comic series that initially ran from 1995 to 2015 and launched a TV series, is getting resurrected in a new comic series from Top Cow and Image Comics. It’s set to unleash heavy metal, black magic and blood this summer.

Look for the new Witchblade series to launch on July 17, 2024.

In Witchblade #1, “New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini’s life was forever fractured by her father’s murder. Cold, cunning, and hellbent on revenge, Sara now stalks a vicious criminal cabal beneath the city, where an ancient power collides and transforms her into something wild, magnificent, and beyond her darkest imaginings. How will Sara use this ancient power, or will she be consumed by it?”

The series is penned by NYT Best-Selling writer Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, Batwoman, DC Bombshells) and visualized by artist Giuseppe Cafaro (Suicide Squad, Power Rangers, Red Sonja). The creative duo is working with original co-creator Marc Silvestri, who is the CEO of Top Cow Productions Inc. and one of the founders of Image Comics. They are set to reintroduce the series to Witchblade’s enduring fans with “a reimagined origin with contemporary takes on familiar characters and new story arcs that will hook new readers and rekindle the energy and excitement that fueled the 90’s Image Revolution that shaped generations of top creators.”

Bennett said in a statement, “The ability to tell a ferocious story full of monsters, sexuality, vision, and history was irresistible.” She adds, “Our saga is sleek, vicious, ferocious, and has a lot to say about power in the 21st century and will be the first time that we are stopping the roller coaster to let more people on. I’ve loved Witchblade since I was a child, and there is truly no other heroine like Sara with such an iconic legacy and such a rich, brutal relationship to her own body.”

“The Witchblade universe is being modernized to reflect how Marguerite beautifully explores the extreme sides of Sara through memories, her personal thoughts, like desire and hunger, in her solitude and when she is possessed by the Witchblade. So, I had to visually intersect a noir True Detective-like world with a supernatural, horror world that is a fantastic mix between Berserk and Zodiac,” Cafaro stated.

Marc Silvestri notes, “This is brand new mythology around Sara, and I can’t wait for you to fall in love with her and all the twists and turns. Discover Witchblade reimagined this summer, and join us as we bring all the fun of the 90s to the modern age and see how exciting comics can be. I can’t wait for you to read this new series.”

Witchblade#1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 17th, for $4.99 for 48 pages. And it’ll come with multiple cover variants.