This month I will mainly be reading continuing series. Tying this month's theme and last month's theme of short books together is this- the first book in another series by Robert Kirkman, creator of the Walking Dead.
He's got a much more interesting concept to play with in this series. Ten years ago, a large section of Philadelphia and the hundreds of thousands of people that were there at the time vanished into an alternate dimension called Oblivion.
This dimension is inhabited by giant monsters with a taste for human flesh. As we discover in the course of this volume, the process was two way and some of the monsters ran rampage in our world.
Initially the government tried to retrieve the lost, but over time, their interest has waned. Now scientist Nathan Cole makes daily trips to Oblivion to try to rescue as many as he can for himself. Of course, he has more reasons than pure altruism for his unending quest. there are things and specific people he is searching for and he won't stop till he finds them.
This volume contains the first six issues of the comic and it's a promising start. The central cast is slowly expanding so plenty of monster fodder for later on. There's a slowly emerging conspiracy plot that could be an interesting storyline if handled correctly.
The artwork is good. The monsters look pretty damned scary and the ruins of Oblivion Philadelphia are very well realised. My only problem is that two of the lead characters, brothers, look too much alike and are difficult to tell apart in some panels.
This volume was quite cheap which was why I bought it. I will be buying the rest of the series as I want to know where this one is going.
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