Hannah’s life imploded the day her father failed to return from the secretive Smith-Petersen Research Station in Antarctica. Alone and on the street, she’s at her lowest ebb when a friend offers help. Retrained as an engineer, Hannah secures a job at the same Antarctic station to search for her father and stumbles headfirst into a conspiracy that threatens everything she’s ever believed. Antarctica #1 kicks off an intriguing mystery, you just need to ignore some things to enjoy it.

Written by Simon Birks, Antarctica #1 is an interesting start. We’re given a bit of an emotional ride as we learn about Hannah and her father and her slide after he disappears. It’s a hell of a slide that’s not really explained. While her emotional fallout makes sense, she also becomes homeless living on the streets. None of that is explained, it overall feels like a rather unneeded journey for Hannah. She is befriended by a bar owner, is encouraged to go to school, and then gets hired by the same company her father worked for. What? It’s a journey that feels a bit like a stretch. It’s never explained how she can afford school. The company not connecting her to her father feels a bit odd as well. It’s small details that feel like a bump on the journey to the morse interesting Antarctica.

The art by Willi Roberts is good. With lettering by Lyndon White, there’s a nice emotional ride in the first 2/3 of the comic as we’re taken through Hannah’s rough journey.. When we eventually get to Antarctica, there’s a coldness not in the white snow, but in the blacks, greys, and reds of the location. It’s all decent art but nothing quite jumps out or really uses its locations to deliver a bit more to the journey.

Antarctica #1 is an ok start. It takes a while to get going and there’s some odd distractions along the way but the end of the comic delivers. It’s enough to want to see what happens next, let’s hope it gets more to the point going forward.

Story: Simon Birks Art: Willi Roberts Letterer: Lyndon White
Story: 7.0 Art: 7.0 Overall: 7.0 Recommendation: Read

Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

---

Purchase: TFAW – Zeus Comics – Kindle