A review by villyidol
Letter 44, Volume 1: Escape Velocity by Charles Soule
adventurous
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
This is basically the opposite of the comic I previously read, insomuch as I really don’t enjoy looking at it. But the story has me intrigued.
When the new president enters office, he learns that his predecessor has left behind a letter for him. The contents are surprising, to say the least. Turns out that aliens are in fact real, we’ve discovered years ago that they are building something in the asteroid belt and we sent a ship to find out what it is. We just didn’t tell anybody.
There are two storylines unfolding in parallel. On the one side we have the political struggle on Earth, as the new president is trying to decide what to do with this new information. The other storyline is the mission to the asteroid belt itself and the weird relationships that have developed amongst the group of scientists and astronauts – well, and the matter of making contact. I’m interested to see where this goes.
The artwork really isn’t very nice though. The characters are so unbelievably ugly that when one of the astronauts remarked how handsome the new president was, I actually had to laugh out loud. It seems like recently I just can’t have it all with comics. Okay, frankly, the artwork of the last one wasn’t good either. But it somehow worked and I actually enjoyed looking at it. On the plus side, this here is a much better book. We’ll see how long I can stand looking at it.
<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91jP4A+5+lL.jpg" width="400" height="615" alt="description"/>
3.75 stars
Buddy read with <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/nataliya_x">Nataliya</a>.
When the new president enters office, he learns that his predecessor has left behind a letter for him. The contents are surprising, to say the least. Turns out that aliens are in fact real, we’ve discovered years ago that they are building something in the asteroid belt and we sent a ship to find out what it is. We just didn’t tell anybody.
There are two storylines unfolding in parallel. On the one side we have the political struggle on Earth, as the new president is trying to decide what to do with this new information. The other storyline is the mission to the asteroid belt itself and the weird relationships that have developed amongst the group of scientists and astronauts – well, and the matter of making contact. I’m interested to see where this goes.
The artwork really isn’t very nice though. The characters are so unbelievably ugly that when one of the astronauts remarked how handsome the new president was, I actually had to laugh out loud. It seems like recently I just can’t have it all with comics. Okay, frankly, the artwork of the last one wasn’t good either. But it somehow worked and I actually enjoyed looking at it. On the plus side, this here is a much better book. We’ll see how long I can stand looking at it.
<img src="https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91jP4A+5+lL.jpg" width="400" height="615" alt="description"/>
3.75 stars
Buddy read with <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/nataliya_x">Nataliya</a>.