Long-time comics reviewer and librarian Penny Kenny recently checked out Jay Piscopo's new "Commaner X All-Star Special." Here's what she has to say about this new comic book:
It was wonderful and terrible.
Wonderful because I really like how X works as a
superhero type and a pulp hero type. I
love his attitude, which pretty much seems to be "Yep, another crazy day
in the neighborhood. Guess I'll just
keep rolling with it."
The only thing that's terrible about the issue is that I
want more! Now!
The set-up in each of these stories is well-done. There's enough information to get the story
going and to hint at a bigger story, without bogging things down. And you still get an entire story in 9 pages
or 11 or 16. Can you tell I miss the old
days of comics when you could have short stories that were still stories and
not preludes to events?
"Wake of the War-Beast" is probably my favorite
by a hair.... Perfect. I now want to see an extended version of this
as an animated film.
The art of course is great looking. The yeti is especially impressive and the
full-pager of "Little X" rising from the deep to tower over the
fishing boat is superb. Really looks
like a movie poster. The action scenes
flow well and there's a sense of weight to the characters' movements...
I really want
to know how all the pieces of the different stories fit together. I want to know more about Lemuria and
Atlantis and Circe and the rest of the Shiva missions and how Eli and X are
connected. So many questions waiting to
be answered....
Ordering information:
“Commander
X All-Star Special”
Published
by Nemo Publishing
Written
and illustrated by Jay Piscopo
40
pages | Full-color | $3.99
Order
from August Diamond Previews
DIAMOND
CODE: AUG121224
Look
for the Diamond Spotlight on page 323
