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In a universe where Man is prevented from reaching the stars by an unknown but hostile alien force, a crew of space jockeys risks their own lives and all of humanity's future to make the jump to light speed. And the only man who can stop them is the sole survivor of the first disastrous attempt to make the jump!
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64 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published August 1, 2021
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December 29, 2021
After a disastrous maiden flight that killed one of its two test pilots, the second attempt to launch a faster-than-light spacecraft is hit with an even bigger catastrophe. An energy beam, fired from across the galaxy hits Earth, killing over 3 million people, and it comes with a warning; Earth is quarantined. Humanity cannot leave the solar system. Any attempt will cause the destruction of Earth. With spaceships now restricted to just operating in the solar system, one pilot and his crew are going to try and break the quarantine, believing the warning is a bluff and that humans are destined to explore the stars. The UN send Aaron Cruz, the sole survivor from the previous crash, to intercept the renegade ship before it breaks quarantine and threatens the survival of Earth.
This is one of my favourite comics to come out of Splatto Comics. I always like an interesting sci-fi premise, and this one has an interesting hook. The idea that humans would be prevented from leaving our solar system, and some pilots deciding that the risk isn't worth losing the human drive for exploration. The plot and the writing are pretty good for the most part, with the book easy to follow and understand. The dialogue flows well, with main characters being compelling and believable. I also liked that the motivations for the quarantine breaking pilot, Tyrus Blake, aren't told through sickly sweet exposition; you can just glean his motivations from his background. The plot moves at a fairly quick pace, with the action focusing on the two ships and crew in a race against each other. The isn't much in the way really of world building or explaining the technology of anything else. It’s just the future and that's it. This keeps the plot moving and makes the plot move at a quicker pace, adding I feel to the urgency of the story.
The ending was ok. Everything seemed to be fine until like the last few pages. The reveal (), was barely hinted at and after reading, it my feeling was ‘and?' So... Does that mean anything or particularly relevant to the quarantine or Blake’s attempt to jump to light speed? I felt not really, but perhaps I missed something somewhere.
The art was decent, but I’d call it very standard with nothing that stood out and is similar to many other books style, and pages of this could be mixed with a ton of other books and you wouldn't be able to pick the difference between them. But for the story the art matched well enough.
I think I will most likely carry on with this series (I’m pretty sure there's going to be a follow up). Like I said, I felt this was a good premise and the writing was smooth and interesting. I preferred this to the other Splatto books, PANdemIC and Do As You're Told: The Ballad of NO, but they were just single-issue comics rather than this, which was more a graphic novel, so perhaps more story just made it feel better. Not without its problems, this is a book I think sci-fi fans would probably enjoy.
This is one of my favourite comics to come out of Splatto Comics. I always like an interesting sci-fi premise, and this one has an interesting hook. The idea that humans would be prevented from leaving our solar system, and some pilots deciding that the risk isn't worth losing the human drive for exploration. The plot and the writing are pretty good for the most part, with the book easy to follow and understand. The dialogue flows well, with main characters being compelling and believable. I also liked that the motivations for the quarantine breaking pilot, Tyrus Blake, aren't told through sickly sweet exposition; you can just glean his motivations from his background. The plot moves at a fairly quick pace, with the action focusing on the two ships and crew in a race against each other. The isn't much in the way really of world building or explaining the technology of anything else. It’s just the future and that's it. This keeps the plot moving and makes the plot move at a quicker pace, adding I feel to the urgency of the story.
The ending was ok. Everything seemed to be fine until like the last few pages. The reveal (), was barely hinted at and after reading, it my feeling was ‘and?' So... Does that mean anything or particularly relevant to the quarantine or Blake’s attempt to jump to light speed? I felt not really, but perhaps I missed something somewhere.
The art was decent, but I’d call it very standard with nothing that stood out and is similar to many other books style, and pages of this could be mixed with a ton of other books and you wouldn't be able to pick the difference between them. But for the story the art matched well enough.
I think I will most likely carry on with this series (I’m pretty sure there's going to be a follow up). Like I said, I felt this was a good premise and the writing was smooth and interesting. I preferred this to the other Splatto books, PANdemIC and Do As You're Told: The Ballad of NO, but they were just single-issue comics rather than this, which was more a graphic novel, so perhaps more story just made it feel better. Not without its problems, this is a book I think sci-fi fans would probably enjoy.
August 19, 2021
Either I'm getting better at reading these or Meyer's getting better at writing them—or both (and we shouldn't rule out the influence of his co-creators)—but I think this is the first story I got from start to end without major questions. I mean, there are still major questions, but they're the ones I should be asking (to wit: what happens next?) as opposed to "what just happened?"
You just have to read these books carefully, but also I feel like, in this case, there was just the right balance of detail with mystery. Everything actually gets answered in a fairly satisfying way. I knew, dramatically, how the book had to end about seven or eight pages before the end, but I didn't know how Chuck & Dick (Dick & Chuck?) were going to get there and...I liked it. It made sense, at least, aesthetically, to me.
It goes without saying that the production quality is top notch—and the cover, which was controversial looks 100x better live than on-screen. The art...well, for me, it's one of those things where I see that it's very good and very effective, but somehow not quite to my taste. Not something I take points off for.
Anyway, this makes me excited for the long-anticipated Expendables Go To Hell!
You just have to read these books carefully, but also I feel like, in this case, there was just the right balance of detail with mystery. Everything actually gets answered in a fairly satisfying way. I knew, dramatically, how the book had to end about seven or eight pages before the end, but I didn't know how Chuck & Dick (Dick & Chuck?) were going to get there and...I liked it. It made sense, at least, aesthetically, to me.
It goes without saying that the production quality is top notch—and the cover, which was controversial looks 100x better live than on-screen. The art...well, for me, it's one of those things where I see that it's very good and very effective, but somehow not quite to my taste. Not something I take points off for.
Anyway, this makes me excited for the long-anticipated Expendables Go To Hell!
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