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
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| Artist: | Ryan Bodenheim |
| Author: | Jonathan Hickman |
| Cover Artist: | Ryan Bodenheim |
| Release Date: | December 5, 2007 |
| In Stock? | Not currently available |
| 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.
2 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.
2 pts.