Contract #1

This review paraphrased from Review at Jazma Online: The team of Jessie, Panzer and Tsumi work well together. Panzer is the brawn, Tsumi the skill and Jessie is one deadly beauty. She dresses like a cowboy but in skin tight black leather and knows how to get people to do as she wants. Her team, Stellar Rangers Inc. and when they go into action it is all out action! Panzer’s strength and Tsumi’s skill easily compliment each other and the art showing them is fun and dynamic. These mercenaries for hire are standard in a futuristic world. However this one team stands out since Jessie has a heart. That’s what makes her special in this cut-throat world, (that and her cute old west style costume). The first backup is a little self contained story and is fantastically written. It will have you bursting out loud laughing. And you get a cute butt shot at the end. The next backup story expands on the world a bit more and gives a glimpse of what’s to come. Give this book a try! 5 Stars!

This review is from: http://www.uberwillowtara.com/heroineaddict/issues080521.html

Contract #1 & #2 ~ Okay, bottom line: buy this book. I’m not just saying that because I got to read it for free (hey, I’m still paying for my copies when they ship), but seriously, I have rarely had as much fun per page as I have with Contract. I don’t want to suggest that it’s ‘comedy’, because that pigeon-holes books into a played-for-laughs category – rather, it’s funny the way The Fifth Element or Indiana Jones is funny (Crystal Skull didn’t disappoint in that regard). The plot and characters are real and serious, but they often wind up in amusing places, and the dialogue sparkles with witty banter between Jessie, Tsumi, and Panzer, the latter’s heavily-accented lines often being laugh-out-loud entertaining. The art is energetic and action-oriented, but with a playful edge that works well in the lighter moments. As sci-fi the story has a kind of pulp flair to it – it’s intelligent and consistent, but it has a larger-than-life quality that makes anything possible around the next corner (Fifth Element comes to mind again, with its novel designs and concepts). It’s like The Princess Bride meets Blade Runner – a grim, tough future, seen through the lens of vivacious, entertaining characters with lashings of finely-crafted dialogue. And I bet you never thought you’d see those two movies cited at the same time. I’ll be reviewing Contract in more detail, plotwise, when it ships, but for now: if you like exciting action/comedy, head down to your local comic shop and tell them to get this in for you.