Eternal #2 (of 4)
Author: William Harms
Artist: Stefano Simeone
After the explosive events of the first issue, the New Life corporation wants to destroy the Human Liberation Army now more than ever. Rathmann is charged with hunting down the HLA’s leader, Gail. In a world of immortal clones, does life truly have meaning?
In a world of clones, the Human Liberation Army wants to free people from New Life’s grasp. Their leader Gail will take the most drastic, personal measures yet to do so. Rathmann, a former homicide detective turned New Life enforcer, is on the case, and is asking tough questions. Violet, a young girl and one of the few non-cloned humans—or Pures—is longing to enter the real world. But she has no idea the danger she is stepping into.
Talk about being thrown into the action. Writer William Harms throws the reader right into the tick of it with Eternal #1. And as such, the reader is forced to piece together what’s going on and what this world is about.
Like an action movie that dives right into it, we’re presented a high-octane sci-fi tale that feels a bit like a Fast and Furious film mixed with Neil Blomkamp. That’s not a bad thing as its lots of fun. With raids, and talk of Pures, and DNA harvesting, it not only draws you in, but also begins to present some interesting philosophical questions, something that science fiction excels at doing.
Harms is helped with the art of Giovanni Valletta which solidly mixes the sci-fi and action aspect. There’s lots going on in numerous scenes, and Valletta’s style brings out the kinetic feel of it all. Its particularly helped with some of the choices on how to present the panels as far as perspective. It’ll be interesting to see how the art pans out over the next four issues.
Overall, the series has a great concept, some cool art, and a hell of a start for a first issue. For folks interesting in science fiction, or action films, it’s well worth picking up and checking out the first issue.
Story: William Harms Art: Giovanni Valletta
Story: 8.25 Art: 8.25 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy
BOOM! Studios provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Eternal #1 (of 4)
Author: William Harms
Artist: Giovanni Valletta
In a world of clones, the Human Liberation Army wants to free people from New Life’s grasp. Their leader Gail will take the most drastic, personal measures yet to do so. Rathmann, a former homicide detective turned New Life enforcer, is on the case, and is asking tough questions. Violet, a young girl and one of the few non-cloned humans—or Pures—is longing to enter the real world. But she has no idea the danger she is stepping into.
William Harms (Impaler, Infamous) is crafting a gripping, sophisticated story about what happens if science completely changes the rules of life itself. This is a story where characters’ ethics and loyalties are tested, for society has changed but human failings remain the same. The next step in humanity is brought to glorious life by Giovanni Valetta (Dark Horse Presents).
If you had the option of living forever, would you take it? This December BOOM! Studios continues its tradition of smart and thrilling sci-fi books with the launch of Eternal, a new series created and written by William Harms and illustrated by Giovanni Valletta. Eternal takes place in a world where cloning is not only legal, but highly practiced to the point where a person can essentially achieve immortality by continually cloning themselves.
In Eternal, in a world of clones, the Human Liberation Army wants to free people from New Life’s grasp. Their leader Gail will take the most drastic, personal measures yet to do so. Rathmann, a former homicide detective turned New Life enforcer, is on the case, and is asking tough questions. Violet, a young girl and one of the few non-cloned humans—or Pures—left, is longing to enter the real world. But she has no idea the danger she is stepping into.
Eternal #1 arrives in comic book shops on December 10th with a main cover illustrated by Frazer Irving for the cover price of $3.99 under Diamond order code OCT141120. A retailer incentive cover drawn by Greg Smallwood will be available in limited quantities.
Shotgun Wedding #4
Story By: William Harms
Art By: Edward Pun
Price: $3.99
Diamond ID: FEB140518
Published: April 23, 2014
Mike Stone wants nothing more than to marry the woman of his dreams. Denise is smart, sexy, teaches the second grade, and loves Mike more than anything in the world. What she doesn’t know is that Mike is one of the world’s top assassins and was once engaged to a fellow assassin named Chloe. And when Mike abandoned Chloe on their wedding day, she vowed revenge… This April, treat yourself to an issue of SHOTGUN WEDDING each Wednesday!
Shotgun Wedding #3
Story By: William Harms
Art By: Edward Pun
Price: $3.99
Diamond ID: FEB140517
Published: April 16, 2014
Mike Stone wants nothing more than to marry the woman of his dreams. Denise is smart, sexy, teaches the second grade, and loves Mike more than anything in the world. What she doesn’t know is that Mike is one of the world’s top assassins and was once engaged to a fellow assassin named Chloe. And when Mike abandoned Chloe on their wedding day, she vowed revenge… This April, treat yourself to an issue of SHOTGUN WEDDING each Wednesday!
Shotgun Wedding #2 (of 4)
Story By: William Harms
Art By: Edward Pun
Cover By: Edward Pun
Price: $3.99
Diamond ID: FEB140516
Published: April 9, 2014
Mike Stone wants nothing more than to marry the woman of his dreams. Denise is smart, sexy, teaches the second grade, and loves Mike more than anything in the world. What she doesn’t know is that Mike is one of the world’s top assassins and was once engaged to a fellow assassin named Chloe. And when Mike abandoned Chloe on their wedding day, she vowed revenge…
Shotgun Wedding #1 (of 4)
Story By: William Harms
Art By: Edward Pun
Cover By: Edward Pun
Price: $3.99
Diamond ID: FEB140515
Published: April 2, 2014
Mike Stone wants nothing more than to marry the woman of his dreams. Denise is smart, sexy, teaches the second grade, and loves Mike more than anything in the world. What she doesn’t know is that Mike is one of the world’s top assassins and was once engaged to a fellow assassin named Chloe. And when Mike abandoned Chloe on their wedding day, she vowed revenge… This April, treat yourself to an issue of SHOTGUN WEDDING each Wednesday! All FOUR issues of Minotaur Press’s latest miniseries will be released in April, and the covers for all four issues connect to form one larger image.
Mike Stone wants nothing more than to marry the woman of his dreams… but the last woman of his dreams wants nothing more than to stop him. This April, the new Shotgun Wedding miniseries from Top Cow‘s Minotaur Press imprint will give you a slice of vengeful wedding drama to look forward to each week, all month long.
William Harms and Edward Pun introduce an assassin named Mike and his smart, sexy, 2nd-grade-teacher fiancée, Denise. Mike loves Denise more than anything in the world, but Chloe—his first fiance who got left in the lurch—has been plotting her revenge.
In a release Harms said:
Grosse Pointe Blank is one of my favorite movies. I absolutely love the balance it strikes in tone between Martin’s job—killing people—and how he struggles to reconcile that with the rest of his life. Ever since that movie came out, I’ve been wanting to write a story about an assassin and then one day a little lightbulb went off in my head and I thought, Imagine if an assassin was going to get married, and on that very special day, all of his enemies showed up… and one them was his ex-fiancée.
All four issues will come out in April, one a week and will each be available for $3.99. The first issue in the four-issue miniseries Shotgun Wedding arrives in stores on 4/2 and can be pre-ordered using Diamond Code FEB140515.
Shotgun Wedding #2 can be pre-ordered using Diamond Code: FEB140516 and will be available on 4/9. Shotgun Wedding #3 can be pre-orded using Diamond Code: FEB140517 and will be available on 4/16, and Shotgun Wedding #4 can be pre-ordered with Diamond Code: FEB140518 and will be available on 4/23.
39 Minutes, Vol. 1 HC
Story By: William Harms
Art By: Jerry Lando
Art By: Linda Sejic
Cover By: Rafael Albuquerque
Price: $19.99
Diamond ID: MAY130442
Published: July 31, 2013
ROBBING A BANK IS EASY, IT’S THE GETAWAY THAT’S HARD The bank is surrounded by police officers, alarms are blaring, customers and employees are screaming, and the streets are blocked off. So what’s the solution? Kill everyone in town!
