Steven Sykora 4000
Friday, May 23, 2008, 05:00 PM
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Title: Lazarus 1
Publisher Name: AAM / Markosia ( http://www.markosia.co.uk/ )
Writer: Joseph Gauthier
Art: Alexander Lugo
$3.99, 33 pages, Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Publishers Blurb:
Others use the name, but there is only one Lazarus! The Biblical figure that disappeared from history returns! Gehenna City looks like any other metropolis, its citizens unaware that they're hosts for demons. Only Lazarus can stop the invasion! Discover the origin of this eternal warrior.
Reviewer Comments:
Another interesting concept, taking a character from the bible with an open ending and putting your own twist on what happened to him... like Gauthier says in a letter between stories, "Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this before?"
The story starts out with a little girl writing to Lazarus for help and doesn't really have much of a dialogue, but the letter and the art tend to tell the story. That story is followed by a letter from the writer (Gauthier), and then we get a little more into the origins of Lazarus for our not so biblically intuitive audiences, with a sneak peek of some of the next issue.
I'm a bit mixed on the art. It seems like it could be a little more detailed in some places but not bad in others, I'm not sure if it's the pencils or the colors that give me the feeling that the Lugo is just learning to draw Lazarus. Don't get me wrong, the art isn't bad, it's just seems like as the issues progress Lugo may get a better idea on how to make the Lazarus character come alive.
I give the creative team here an A for concept but a B- for the delivery of it. I hope to see more from them however as I think this story has a lot of potential and as they learn a bit more about how to write and draw Lazarus I believe it could become a really good book.
Title: Lazarus 1
Publisher Name: AAM / Markosia ( http://www.markosia.co.uk/ )
Writer: Joseph Gauthier
Art: Alexander Lugo
$3.99, 33 pages, Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Publishers Blurb:
Others use the name, but there is only one Lazarus! The Biblical figure that disappeared from history returns! Gehenna City looks like any other metropolis, its citizens unaware that they're hosts for demons. Only Lazarus can stop the invasion! Discover the origin of this eternal warrior.
Reviewer Comments:
Another interesting concept, taking a character from the bible with an open ending and putting your own twist on what happened to him... like Gauthier says in a letter between stories, "Why hasn't anyone ever thought of this before?"
The story starts out with a little girl writing to Lazarus for help and doesn't really have much of a dialogue, but the letter and the art tend to tell the story. That story is followed by a letter from the writer (Gauthier), and then we get a little more into the origins of Lazarus for our not so biblically intuitive audiences, with a sneak peek of some of the next issue.
I'm a bit mixed on the art. It seems like it could be a little more detailed in some places but not bad in others, I'm not sure if it's the pencils or the colors that give me the feeling that the Lugo is just learning to draw Lazarus. Don't get me wrong, the art isn't bad, it's just seems like as the issues progress Lugo may get a better idea on how to make the Lazarus character come alive.
I give the creative team here an A for concept but a B- for the delivery of it. I hope to see more from them however as I think this story has a lot of potential and as they learn a bit more about how to write and draw Lazarus I believe it could become a really good book.