Lucas Fashina

Review: Ascender #2

By Lucas Fashina 6 years ago
  • Published by Image comics, writer Jeff Lemire, artist Dustin Nguyen, with lettering and design by Steve Wands.

Previously in Ascender #1, We met Mila a young girl on the Planet of Samson formerly the largest planet in the United Galactic Alliance, home of the largest military and home to the largest population of humans but now that has been devastated a pre-technology devolution promulgated by a cult of vampires.,called the Harvesters.  Where as before he who had the best technology was king, now he who is closest the faith and religion thrives. As a result Mila suffers because her father prefers to go off grid, then to participate in society ruled by vampires.

Currently  in Ascender #2, the focus switches to the Harvester vampires in their quest to rid the galaxy of robot technology. We meet the leadership of the Gnish who have been charged with hunting down and destroying the remaining robots.  We also get a glimpse of the power that the Mother of the vampire wields and her determination to see the mission through.  This mission makes Mila and her father destined to be on a crash course of conflict with the Mother and the Harvesters.

So, far it’s still impressive how well Jeff Lemire world builds while at the same time moves the story along in a meaningful and entertaing way.

The panels drawn by Dustin Nguyen are incredible as ever especially when you consider that he is delivering cover art quality to interior panels. The only issue that I have is that I’m not sure that Mila has quite found a distinctive look yet. But I trust that it will happen as the story progresses.

Going foward its not hard to envision this Space Opera about a little girl trying to survive in a world run by vampires being turned in a script.  Why not ?  Sony bought the rights to adapt its predescessor Descender to film based on the first issue alone. Jesse Wigutow has been tapped to adapt Descender, Josh Bratman will produce the Sony project under his Immersive Pictures banner with Lemire and Dustin Nguyen, the comic’s co-creator and artist, executive producing.

Its not a sure thing to start speculating on Ascender yet. Ascender #1  print run was about 20,000 copies. Though there is a Diamond Retailer Summit variant that you might want to keep an eye out for.

 

Review: Bloodborne#12

By Lucas Fashina 6 years ago

From the beginning off the Song of Crows storyline Ales Kot tells you the direction he intended to take Blood Borne, in issue #9 part 1 of Song of Crows : “No matter how hard you try to understand you will never know the whole story. You may even choose to convince yourself that you’ve found the right angle from which to see the totality of the world.”

I like puzzles…I fail miserably at them but But hey I’m going to give this Bloodborne book a try!  At first glance there are various underlying story-lines that definitely  helps out if you read the previous story arcs or at least had finished the game.

In the video game Eileen the Crow is a  hunter tasked with slaying hunters who have gone blood-drunk and sub-sequentially mad and violent from Beast Hunting. That’s why one of the first panels we saw in issue #9 was intriguing because we see the body of the Hunter the death of sleep storyline. The last we heard of the Hunter (last heard of in issue #4) and the Paleblood child was in Blood Borne 4 (No sign of the pale blood child though). But the most interesting thing was a note found in the mouth of one of the bodies that said ” Consciousness is a lake”. To which Eileen replied that ” There’s a hole in the center of the story”. Later on in issue #10 Eileen is freaking a passage from a book that says ” come and see your grief the gate”.

The Song of Crows storyline has been a chance for Piotr Kowalski to show of his skills of letting the art tell the story. With zero dialogue it was left up to the reader to make the connection between the art and the panels and the exposition layed neatly by letterer Aditya Bidikar.
Over the last couple of days I keep re-opening the issue to see what I may have missed but instead I kept finding myself distracted by the beauty of the panels.

As a speculator I don’t have much fidelity on a really big reason to collect the Bloodborne comic series yet have her I am encouraged by Sony`s willingness to expand the products associated with the Bloodborne franchise. It seems Blood Borne is getting an official board game adaptation thanks to a Kickstarter campaign  that has already surpassed  $200,000.  So I have to ask what’s next for Bloodeborne? A movie ala Silent Hill?

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