A review by alexauthorshay
Faster Than Light Volume 1: First Steps by Brian Haberlin

3.0

Interesting premise, but not quite enough for me to keep reading. The art bothered me the entire time, though more so at the beginning. It looks traced to me, like someone outlined the poses from photographs and then shaded over the original with digital brushes. Or like the 3d game style used in Borderlands or The Wolf Among Us. Which I've never experienced in a comic book before and somehow felt like cheating? I don't know, but it bothered me. Beyond that, it's difficult to tell the characters apart by appearance, and I can't always tell who's speaking. The dialogue seems very generic and sometimes unneeded.

I did read to the end because I was curious about the object they brought to their ship, curious about the aliens they stole it from. But of course you don't get answers to either of those things since that's what will serve as the ongoing plot throughout the series. I'm curious enough to maybe read a plot summary, if one exists, but not to read every panel.