Red Mass For Mars
Comic Summary: 'ETERNITY' From the mind of comic book innovator Jonathan Hickman and pen of super-talent and Image debutant RYAN BODENHEIM comes A RED MASS FOR MARS. In a world that has survived every catastrophe imaginable, a new threat from beyond the stars looks to be the end of all humanity. A RED MASS FOR MARS tells the story of the last days of Earth and the one man who could save us all, but won't.
Codes: 70985300593300111 OCT071969 APR082160
- Price:
$3.50$2.80- Artist:
- Ryan Bodenheim
- Author:
- Jonathan Hickman
- Cover Artist:
- Ryan Bodenheim
- Release Date:
- December 5, 2007
- In Stock?
- Yes!
- Genre:
- Science Fiction
- Pages:
- 32
- Colouring:
- FC
- Lists:
- Not on any lists. Start your own!
Customer Reviews
I really enjoyed the first issue. It makes you look forward to the next. I can’t wait to see where the story goes.
1 pts.
I receive the first issue of “Red Mass for Mars”, and immediately, a wave of dread passes over me. I haven’t even opened to page one yet. Fuck.
As soon as I start reading, I wholly understand my panic attack. Jonathan Hickman. He throws himself into the writing, and reading it, while a true unadulterated blast, takes exertion. I submit to you: “Transhuman”. Am I really up for this?
Lest you say I poopoo the Hickman: reading that requires exertion is a “Good Thing” (TM), IMO. And I submit to you: “Red Mass for Mars”
Ryan Bodenheim’s art on “Red Mass” is a solid companion here. Bodenheims’s art feels like Frank Quitely (see “All-Star Superman”), but not as good and with shortcuts.
Actual story? I’m a sucker for Earth-apocalypto shit, and “Red Mass for Mars” fits the bill. Hickman does a SOLID job of conveying how truly screwed Earth is. That’s AFTER Earth’s burnt up, experienced super-bugs, terrorist nukes, AND gray goo. Apparently, it’s gonna get WORSE.
“Humor relief” consists of a two-page spread announcing the blatant murder and worse of the British royal family. This is the fuckin’ weird, initial, and symbolic reprisal for failure to obey a psycho superhuman international edict that the world shall instantly switch to English as the written and spoken global language; brilliantly concluded with said psycho mumbling: “Book burning and data elimination to ensue immediately. This message is not to be translated… except for the hand stuff for the deafs.”
The deafs. heh. Hickman slays.
1 pts.