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Dead Reckoning: Contagion issue #2 – Review
Issue: Dead Reckoning: Contagion issue #2
Writer: Z.M. Thomas
Pencils: Cliff Richards
Publisher: Trepidation Comics
Release Date: January 2012
Pages: 28
Price: $3.99
“With the resurgence of what is believed an evolved strain of the 1918 Spanish Influenza strikes South Eastern Asia, a Chinese pharmaceutical company along with the Epidemic Intelligence Service and CDC are on a race against time to create a cure and prevent a future global pandemic. But when the new vaccine begins to bring the dead of those infected back to life, the military places the entire city of Minneapolis under quarantine.”
Dying Breath: 4.5 out of 5.0
WEED WHACKER HO! Contagion is back, under a new name, and it is
ready to blast your balls (sorry ladies) to the wall! When the first
issue ended, it left me wanting so much more, and issue #2 is here to
deliver that. The artwork has been kicked up a notch, but you should be
able to tell that from the cover image posted with this review. Not only
do the character designs make my jaw drop from panel to panel, but the
colors are to DIE for. This is one GORE-Geous book! Richards is great at
depicting emotion, but I will gripe that we are not all supermen with
out rock hard ab’s. Just saying, all comics do that and it bothers me.
Not your fault Cliff, I promise. The story by Thomas is working on two
levels. Level #1 is moving the story along. He has a great handle on
getting from A to B, while still adding on what has happened and why it
might be happening. Level #2 is the intensity level. Being able to move
the story along while adding intense and relaxed scenes is not an easy
task. Yet Z.M. does it with ease. This book is great, but I have a
gripe. I need more of it faster! I think that this one would honestly
work best as an OGN, or at least told in large issue chapters. At least
then I am not left wanting more and more when I finish a single issue.
If you find this book grab it, if you can’t find it go to the damn
website because this is how horror comics are done right.
Artwork: 4.5 out of 5.0 • Story: 4.5 out of 5.0
If you would like to buy or know more about Dead Reckoning: Contagion please check out http://www.trepidation-comics.com/