A review by grilledcheesesamurai
Black Science, Vol. 5: True Atonement by Rick Remender
4.0
Well, this is more like it! I didn't enjoy the last volume as much and although I have still been picking up single issues of this series I stalled out on it. With issue 34 dropping today (Its supposed to be a gooder) I decided it was time to play catch up.
After Grant's 'discovery' of himself last volume he is now setting out to right his wrongs and try and get his family back.
Only...well...he kind of fucks it all up (like he usually does), destroys a peace treaty of warring tribes that have been at each other's throats for thousands of years, gets too drunk on alien wine, fondles some enormous blue alien breasts, and pisses off a witch.
He does, however, acquire a horse that he names Spaghetti. Which, you know, is pretty cool.
And the art. Holy balls the art! Even with Remender sometimes fumbling around a bit with the story, Matteo Scalera has been consistently amazing with this series. It's so exciting to turn the pages to see what he has drawn next, I dare say that (for me) Black Science is one of the best monthly pulls I have art wise. This series has definitely made a Scalera fanboy of me!
Anyways, The volume finishes off with some really interesting plot revelations that have me super excited to dig into the next arc. It finally looks like things are evolving story wise and getting a little bit more interesting than just 'we have to find our way back home.' Which, you know, I was already on board with but now I'm happy to see that things are getting a bit meatier.
After Grant's 'discovery' of himself last volume he is now setting out to right his wrongs and try and get his family back.
Only...well...he kind of fucks it all up (like he usually does), destroys a peace treaty of warring tribes that have been at each other's throats for thousands of years, gets too drunk on alien wine, fondles some enormous blue alien breasts, and pisses off a witch.
He does, however, acquire a horse that he names Spaghetti. Which, you know, is pretty cool.
And the art. Holy balls the art! Even with Remender sometimes fumbling around a bit with the story, Matteo Scalera has been consistently amazing with this series. It's so exciting to turn the pages to see what he has drawn next, I dare say that (for me) Black Science is one of the best monthly pulls I have art wise. This series has definitely made a Scalera fanboy of me!
Anyways, The volume finishes off with some really interesting plot revelations that have me super excited to dig into the next arc. It finally looks like things are evolving story wise and getting a little bit more interesting than just 'we have to find our way back home.' Which, you know, I was already on board with but now I'm happy to see that things are getting a bit meatier.