THIEF OF THIEVES #5 has hit the spot I've been waiting for. Really the first four issues have been establishing the characters and the situation. Its been a lot of exposition, but its been masterfully done and completely engaging. We have Conrad, the master thief who walked away from the life, and now we have his son who is looking down the barrel of what looks like a long, hard prison term. At this point we now have a hint of where this story is going to be going. I'm quite pleased. For a bit I thought it was going to turn into a guy breaks his kid out of prison type thing. I should have known better. Kirkman plotting this, and Spencer writing it, I definitely should have known better. This is a caper book. The problem with reviewing caper books is that there's so much going on, but everything's spoiler. I can say this. We find out what happened to his ex-partner/brother-in-law. We meet some new interesting characters. We also get an idea of how Conrad plans on getting Augustus out of jail. Of course with a book like this, I severely doubt that everything is as it seems. Sharp written, and beautifully illustrated. Seriously, if you haven't been buying this book, you need to start.MORNING GLORIES #19 also came out because its that time of the month. You know how it is. You spend most of the month with everything being fine and dandy. Then there's that time of the month where you're emotional and confused and possibly bloaty and wondering "what the hell just happened, and what did I just read?" Yep. Its PNS. Pondering Nick Spencer. And that can be quite difficult when it comes to this book. Here, we focus on Hunter. I like Hunter. He's likable. He means well. He's late for important stuff. He's sympathetic. We get some more of Hunter's backstory, much of it involving his mother. Now, while all of this is solid ground for us to go from, as soon as we venture off the solid ground that is Hunter, we're off into a completely topsy-turvy, whiskey tango foxtrot ball of what 's going on and why is this happening? Zoe's trying to kill Hunter. She's an important piece to this game that is being played, and we're still not sure exactly what this game is because we've been dumped into the middle of it from issue one. And as confused as I am about everything that has gone on in this book, and I've read every issue and still am not 100% sure about what's going on, I CAN'T STOP READING THIS BOOK! Its too interesting! Spencer has instilled this notion in me that all of the insane stuff that has gone on in this book fits together somehow, and I'm only just now starting to put the corners of this thing together.
DRACULA WORLD ORDER #1 is Ian Brill's first creator owned effort. Its a fairly solid work and I dove through the first issue painlessly. The world building is handled expediently. The character designs are interesting. Alexandru, Vincent, and Mai are looking to take on a world run by Dracula. We have Alexandru who is Dracula's son. Vincent is the last of the vampire hunters. Mai is a prisoner who has had her genetics messed about with by a vampiric mad scientist. The design of Dracula is striking and quite different than what I'm used to seeing. Very menacing. There was a bit of an eyeroll moment in which Dracula seized power by transforming "The1%" into vampires and I had to laugh thinking whatever's left of the Occupy morons would be all over this since its kind of a metaphor for how they view things. I don't know if Brill buys into all that, but it makes for an interesting enough story. The artwork is very good. I was actually a bit surprised by how good it was. All and all, this has the makings of an interesting series, and is off to a pretty good start. This book is in limited release, but can be downloaded at Comixology.
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