Savage #4
Written by B. CLAY MOORE
Art by CLAYTON HENRY and LEWIS LAROSA
Published by Valiant Comics
This is the final issue of this current mini series offering from Valiant Entertainment. In this issue our hero cuts his path of bloody revenge across the island he has grown up on. We get a surprise resolution to the story, well unless you are a long term Valiant fan and are well versed in the current lines history. I won't spoil it but it was my favourite part of the story.
Writer of the series B. Clay Moore took an adventure fiction archetype, the ever used jungle man who was raised in a solitary landscape, in this case an island, and made a bloody action packed story. When this was announced I was worried that this was a lame attempt by Valiant to have their own Turok type dinosaur hunter, but what we got was much more akin to Tarzan then Turok, and maybe more so in the next chapter of the adventure. Additionally if I am being honest, this book was a thousand times better then all of the recent Turok incarnations. I do need to admit that I'm a huge fan of the jungle wild man trope (thanks to the late great Philip Jose Farmer, even more so then Edgar Rice Burroughs) so this series was right up my alley. I enjoyed it greatly.
The art was fantastic for this entire series. The unique way in which different artists were used to denote different time period within the story was great, and both artists knocked it out of the park on this one. There is a lot of violence in this one, so it is not for the faint of heart. Every time I see Lewis Larosa's art I become more and more of a fan of it. The same can be said of Clayton Henry. Both artists really impressed with this series, the art alone was a 10/10.
Overall what could have ended up as a silly Turok knockoff turned out to be a fantastic series that ended up using a completely different genre then I was expecting, and it exceeded my expectations greatly. This one is action heavy so pick up the trade paper back, it's a highly recommended quick read. Before I started writing this review I re-read the first 3 issues, and I finished them in about 10 minutes, so this won't take a huge time commitment, but would be totally worth if it was.
Art by CLAYTON HENRY and LEWIS LAROSA
Published by Valiant Comics
This is the final issue of this current mini series offering from Valiant Entertainment. In this issue our hero cuts his path of bloody revenge across the island he has grown up on. We get a surprise resolution to the story, well unless you are a long term Valiant fan and are well versed in the current lines history. I won't spoil it but it was my favourite part of the story.
Writer of the series B. Clay Moore took an adventure fiction archetype, the ever used jungle man who was raised in a solitary landscape, in this case an island, and made a bloody action packed story. When this was announced I was worried that this was a lame attempt by Valiant to have their own Turok type dinosaur hunter, but what we got was much more akin to Tarzan then Turok, and maybe more so in the next chapter of the adventure. Additionally if I am being honest, this book was a thousand times better then all of the recent Turok incarnations. I do need to admit that I'm a huge fan of the jungle wild man trope (thanks to the late great Philip Jose Farmer, even more so then Edgar Rice Burroughs) so this series was right up my alley. I enjoyed it greatly.
The art was fantastic for this entire series. The unique way in which different artists were used to denote different time period within the story was great, and both artists knocked it out of the park on this one. There is a lot of violence in this one, so it is not for the faint of heart. Every time I see Lewis Larosa's art I become more and more of a fan of it. The same can be said of Clayton Henry. Both artists really impressed with this series, the art alone was a 10/10.
Overall what could have ended up as a silly Turok knockoff turned out to be a fantastic series that ended up using a completely different genre then I was expecting, and it exceeded my expectations greatly. This one is action heavy so pick up the trade paper back, it's a highly recommended quick read. Before I started writing this review I re-read the first 3 issues, and I finished them in about 10 minutes, so this won't take a huge time commitment, but would be totally worth if it was.
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