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Hitomi follows a warrior’s epic adventure in October

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Writer HS Tak teams up with artist Isabella Mazzanti for the forthcoming historical fiction story, Hitomi. This five-issue miniseries will launch from Image Comics and Syzygy in October.

In Hitomi, a drifter with no prospects in Feudal-era Japan begins training in secret under Yasuke, a now-disgraced former samurai, as she struggles to find her place in a society entrenched in discrimination and violence.

Combining the historical sweep and elegance of Kurosawa with the visceral action of Tarantino, this saga follows the trials and tribulations of a young female warrior who travels the countryside unendingly as she works to gain the rank of Samurai—a title no man, monster, or myth can give to her, but one that she will have to take for herself.

Hitomi #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, October 12:

  • Cover A by Valentina Napolitano – Diamond Code AUG220050
  • Cover B by Peach Momoko – Diamond Code AUG220051
  • Cover C (1:25) by Amancay Nahuelpan – Diamond Code AUG220052

Get Lost in Space with the Survivalist Astronaut Drama Redshift

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Out this May 19th from award-winning filmmaker HS Tak, artist Brent David McKee, with colors from Sebastian Cheng, Redshift is an inspired and worthy evolution to Science Fiction epics that spend less time with Aliens and more time questioning what if the Human race faced extinction in the next 100 years? The result in this first issue is a brilliantly flawless science fiction drama where the biggest danger lies in the arrogance of man and in the cold void of space.

In this science fiction inspired comic where the human race sits on the precipice of total extinction, our protagonist Hellender Drake, is reluctantly recruited on a mission by the same organisation responsible for his own mother’s death.

Redshift is survivalism in space and Hellender Drake will do anything he can to ensure the human race lives on. Even at the cost of his own morality.

Redshift is the type of space astronaut adventure which will challenge every fibre of your being. Both as a reader and as a soon to be converted new fan.

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Review: Boy-1 #1 (of 4)

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boy1 1 coverIn the fast-approaching future, when the drug-addled heir of a genetic-engineering company begins to investigate his company’s murky past, he discovers he is the catalyst in a terrifying global event that will transform him and forever alter the course of human evolution.

GMOs are a hotly debated topic today, especially about the science surrounding them. Boy-1 #1 seems to touch upon some of those issues. So, that got me rather intrigued as I read the comic, but the first issue unfortunately builds too much of a mystery and not quite enough of a pay-off.

Writer H.S. Tak kicks the series off focusing on a mystery and introducing us to the various characters in the comic. It mostly focuses on Jadas, the heir to a genetic-engineering company. He’s drug addicted, a bit of a screw up, and overall comes off as a rich punk. That’s part of the issue for this debut. The comic doesn’t get you to really feel for Jadas, or even like him. He uses women in an overly sexist way, they’re more objects than people, he takes drugs to forget, he doesn’t really care about the company given to him. He’s just not likeable. If Tak focused on Jadas’ loss of his father and the impact of that on him, and only that (you can still include the drugs as his coping), I might have come away caring about the character a bit more. Especially at the end, which to me just came on and felt a little disconnected and choppy.

The art is pretty cool though. Amancay Nahuelpan has a style that fits well with a sci-fi setting. The design feels familiar, but a bit futuristic. It also fits Jadas’ broken life and his spiral. It’s good, but isn’t so fantastic it got me to overlook the narrative issues.

The comic feels like the overall story might work really well, but the first issue approaches the main character in a way to make him unlikeable. There’s also the flow of the narrative, especially the end, that at points just doesn’t quite work for me. Maybe the second issue is a little bit better, but if Jadas alters the course of human evolution, I’m not sure I want it to happen.

Story: H.S. Tak Art: Amancay Nahuelpan
Story: 6 Art: 7 Overall: 6 Recommendation: Pass

IDW Publishing provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

BOY-1 Evolves This August at IDW

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IDW Publishing is adding the thrilling new creator-owned science-fiction miniseries, BOY-1, to their hit list of summer releases.

Penned by writer and creator HS Tak and vividly rendered by artist Amancay Nahuelpan, BOY-1 captures the futuristic journey of a man who discovers he is the subject of a groundbreaking experiment that spins out of control and soon threatens the extinction of all mankind. With nations hunting him as they struggle to maintain order, every move he makes comes with a thousand repercussions.

BOY-1 is set in a world after the completion of The Human Genome Project heralds a new age in science, medicine, and technology, but any form of human cloning has been deemed incompatible with society’s standard of ethics.

It then goes on to explore what could happen if a group of intrepid researchers didn’t listen…

BOY-1 is also being developed for television by Scripted World (Alon Aranya and Rob Golenberg), the producers behind Hostages and Betrayal.

Look for BOY-1 coming from IDW this August with stunning covers by Zach Howard and Amancay Nahuelpan as Scripted World targets a network TV launch in 2016.

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