Review Group #397 - Zero #1
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 Guitarsmashley is back with a brand spanking new #1 from Image: Zero This week's book looks good enough to get maybe 3 whole revies! TO THE REVIEWS! SAVING THE WORLD. ONE MURDER AT A TIME. Edward Zero is the perfect execution machine - a spy who breaks the rules to get things done. When a stolen device appears in the center of a long-running conflict, Zero comes to retrieve it. The problem is, the device is inside a living, breathing, bio-modified terrorist and there's an entire army after it. Writer: Alex Kot • Artist: Michael Walsh, Jordie Bellaire digial copy availible here ______________________ Ze rules:Post your review in the forum thread or in the comments section here on the front page. Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not. When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic. Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick. I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection. Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll. If it's your week to pick, remember to keep it under $3.99. Current Members List
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any objections? |
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Works for me. Fuck em and let Jude sort them out. |
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This is the type of black ops story that Rucka loves to tell, but it swims a bit more in the blood, guts, and viscera of special forces work. I didn't read Kot's short-but-well-loved run on Suicide Squad, but here I definitely saw the talent people were lauding him for there. I'm wondering if the first arc will be all about Zero telling the child assassin his story. From what I understand the book has a rotating art team, correct? Overall, this is an excellent debut that matches and--in some ways--exceeds some of the best Image action/adventure books on the stands like Saga and Lazarus. 10/10 |
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One of the best parts about Zero is how that well-traveled worldview and futurist way of thinking is so deftly used to build Zero #1's characters and near-future world, and it's done without feeling exposition-heavy in the least bit. Structurally such a strong first issue of anything, with no narrative space or page space wasted--even the inside front and back covers are used as the first and last pages of the story! 10/10 |
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I reek of shame. 
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/1607066823 !! Change, like Mind MGMT, was very hard to find in shops unfortunately. |
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I typically stick with digital. Does this lose something not reading it in hardcopy? |
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Not if you already like reading comics digitally, no. |
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Then I will be sure to read change this weekend. |
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No worries from me. It's probably something that's long overdue anyway. |
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From the on set - the child assassin and story-teller hooked me. The flashback fight scenes were extremely well choreographed (and brutal). The hunt for the tech and what our hero (?) does in pursuit of it is exciting despite not really knowing a whole lot of of the why's (I assume they'll come). Zizek and Cooke, when we first meet them were boring ops overseers that initially felt out of place - but with their next scene (which I sure didn't see cuming) was a nice twist. Overall this is a great book but I do have one fault with it... The story-teller sitting on the Dover Cliffs is basically telling the kid (and us) his tale, which oddly includes fight details he was never witness too. He tells of Zizek & Cook lying on the floor (again something he had no way of knowing). While the art of successful story-telling is embellishment, some of these details would just be utterly unnecessary. It's a minor quibble but I kept thinking it as I read the book (I also kept thinking about Scott McCloud's DESTROY! book from the mid '80's). Writing - 8 Art - 9 Overall - 8.5 |
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None. If anything how about adding how many times we've looped the review board since the group was restarted? |
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