Switch #1
Writer by Stjepan Sejic
Art by Stjepan Sejic
Image Comics
Witchblade is a rather well-known comic property, using the usual premise of comics, a hot gal with a kick butt mystic weapon.
In this new incarnation Stjepan Sejic is changing things up a bit.
The mystic weapon has found a new bearer, and she is non-typical in comics.
The gal is a bit of a geek. A plain Jane with tropical concerns, like a zit on the forehead.
It’s an idea that is good to see.
While I’m not averse to hot female leads, I’m pretty sure healthy curves equate to a heroic nature, and that is more or less than premise here.
The story line though remains one likely best appreciated by Witchblade fans.
This issue is a jumping in point as a new title, but I can’t say it grabbed me enough to be around for future issues.
Still Witchblade fans are likely to rejoice.
Plutonia #1
Written by Emi Lenox & Jeff Lemire
Art by Emi Lenox
Image Comics
This story is pretty simple to sum up; it’s the great movie Stand By Me meets a comic book on a superhero.
All right that is not exactly true either.
Yes there are superheroes in this world, in fact one of the kids in the group is a ‘capespotter’ who watches the skies for sightings, then blogs to a group of devotees.
Plutonia, who the book is named for is the greatest of the heroes.
She also happens to be found by the kids dead in the bush; hence the obvious Stand By Me influence.
The kids here are not friends, at least initially. In fact, a lot of the story focuses on kids being mean to each other. The ‘bully’ who has the cliched bad life at home, tosses out insults at ‘Teddy Tugger” and one of the girls being overweight.
But Plutonia’s dead body forces the slightly dysfunctional group into a shared secret.
How that changes the group dynamic will be the stuff of future issues, but as a first issue this is pretty good with a certain ‘YA’ demographic-feel, which is where the title’s biggest fans will likely be found.
