Five Weapons #2 (of 5)
By: Jimmie Robinson
Price: $3.50
Tyler barely escapes the knife club only to become the target of both the stick club and every teacher in the school of Five Weapons. This time the faculty plans to beat Tyler at his own game and embarrass him in front of the whole school.
The latest series from fan-favorite creator, Jimmie Robinson!
The Image Comics imprint Shadowline, helmed by Image co-founder Jim Valentino, has another hit on its hands with Jimmie Robinson‘s Five Weapons, as the first issue sold out in its first week of release, prompting an immediate reprint.
The second printing of Five Weapons #1 will be in stores on April 3 and it can be pre-ordered now.
A young-adult-friendly story of the “new kid” at a high school that trains the children of the world’s greatest assassins, Five Weapons has been well received.
Overall the comic has a nice westernized manga feel to it and the first issue sets up the plot and characters nicely. There’s a lot of original stuff that mixes well for an entertaining first issue that definitely has me interested in reading the next.
Five Weapons #1 (of 5)
By: Jimmie Robinson
Price: $3.50
13-year-old Tyler finds himself in a specialized school where assassins send their kids for education and training in one of the five deadly weapons. Tyler doesn’t have a weapon or any fighting skills, but he still plans to graduate by beating every weapon master in the school because he has a powerful ability that nobody can match: his razor-sharp mind! JIMMIE ROBINSON twists the insanity of BOMB QUEEN in a fun new series that will keep you guessing to the end. This series is rated T for Teen!
When the world’s deadliest, stealthiest, and most infamous assassins need a place to educate their children, an institution that respects and upholds their values, they turn to the prestigious School of Five Weapons. At the setting of the new Image Comics/Shadowline mini-series by Jimmie Robinson, Five Weapons, students train in the martial arts, pledging their loyalty to one “club”: Knives, Staves, Archery, Exotics, and Guns.
The School of Five Weapons is turned upside down when a new student arrives, one carrying a name that all the students and teachers know: Shainline. The clubs vie for Tyler’s loyalty, but it becomes apparent very quickly that this kid isn’t someone who is easy to pin down. Tyler has just the edge he needs to succeed at Five Weapons — a razor-sharp mind!
Robinson writes and draws Five Weapons, and his clean, lively art is colored by Paul Little. The mini-series has the same mischievous tone as Robinson’s series Bomb Queen but was created for a wider audience, as the “T” (teen) rating indicates.
The showdowns are epic, the secrets are dark, and Five Weapons is insanely fun. The first, 32-page issue can be pre-ordered from the December issue of Previews and will be in stores on February 27.
Bomb Queen VII #4 Queen’s World
story / art / cover JIMMIE ROBINSON
Price: $3.50
ShadowHawk races against time to find Bomb Queen’s son before she launches her ultimate evil plan: the destruction of the world. Robinson pulls no punches in this grand finale where the fate of mankind rests in the hands of ShadowHawk – who has his own demons to battle.
