Without Fear

I’m always keen to pick up a new Robert Kirkman comic, I think after THE WALKING DEAD he’s bought a lifetime supply of my attention.

This book looked like ‘Iron Fist Lite’ in its concept, and I’m sure it sparked initially years ago as such, but it’s really far beyond that now in execution. In fact, I love how this book is a hell of a lot of fun in how it handles this set up and then takes it elsewhere in many ways.

Samnee and Wilson are on another level with the beauty of each page, this is something you could sit with a whole second time and just soak in so many of the pages. From the establishing pages of scenery and tone, to the absolute bonkers action moments, this is a book looking to claim your eyeballs for life.

This volume is a mammoth origin story that chews through story because it’s still got more to go. You could see the volume being everything someone planned to tell, and dragging elements of it out to fill maybe 2-3 volumes and call it done, but here they clip through whole sections of it in a way to invest the reader and move them into the real guts of the issue. I went into this only knowing the one note, and was pleasantly surprised when it shows there is plenty more it wants to get around to showing us.

Really glad I picked this up, it’s a beauty, a delight to read, and something I think would be really friendly to readers new to comics and old looking for something fun to lose a weekend morning with.