The villain of the world-shattering Convergence event stars in his own new series! Set loose from his planetary tether at the end of the best-selling Convergence, Telos finds himself free and able to traverse space and time via a sliver of Brainiac’s powers. As this epic begins, he embarks on an odyssey, journeying across time and space in search of his past.

Remember Convergence? Remember Telos? The bad guy turned confused guy at the center of this Summer’s DC Comics event that resulted in the latest DC relaunch? Well Telos is at the center of this new comic series, which is good because he just kind of took off at the end of the event. We don’t know a whole lot about the character, so the series is a continuation and a blank start in many ways.

Writer Jeff King does what he can in Telos #1 which has the character on a mission to find his missing family and kick Braniac’s ass. Yeah, that’s about the story. There’s some interesting writing using some classic literature, but overall the story is very blah. There’s nothing that hooked me at all. I’ll probably check out the second issue, but overall, this is a pretty basic comic, and the reason to come back isn’t there for me.

The art by Jason Paz and Carlo Pagulayan is pretty good. It looks nice, I can’t really knock it at all, but the style is very much the house style we can expect in DC. With so many different styles out there, this now feels a bit generic.

The comic is ok. It’s not bad in any way, there’s just nothing that really excites me about it. Telos as a character didn’t interest me in Convergence, and that carries over here too. It’s a series I wasn’t expected, and after reading the first issue, I’m not expecting it to stick around too long.

Story: Jeff King Art: Jason Paz, Carlo Pagulayan
Story: 6 Art: 7.25 Overall: 6 Recommendation: Pass

DC Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review