9 Comics You Should Be Reading This Week (18th Oct)
8. Cinema Purgatorio #6
Avatar, Multiple Writers And Artists.
Worth Reading For: Moore Slapping Warner Bros, Gillen’s ‘Mad Max Pokemon Go’ and Brooks’ Alt-History!
The price tag on this one needs some defending. Luckily, I don’t think that’s hard. “Cinema Purgatorio” features an all-star cast - including comics legends Alan Moore, Kevin O’Neill and Garth Ennis - at their very best. Smacking of early 2000AD, five stories of the highest quality are serialised in visceral black and white.
Kieron Gillen (“The Wicked + The Divine”) and Nahuel Lopez’s (“Crossed”) “Modded” is the most fun you’ll have reading a comic at the moment. Set in a dystopian future where ‘daemonatrixes’ must find, “Mod” and duel with their ‘daemons’ for their lives, it works as the perfect escape from this year’s Pokemon Go craze. In her search for her adorable flower-generating daemon ‘Fluffbumble,’ budding daemonatrix Fringe must now battle ultra-violent daemons with her own diminutive ‘Junior Ultramyocyte.’
The real ‘grower’ in the series, however, has been Max Brooks (“World War Z”) and Michael DiPascale’s (“Crossed”) alt-history comic “A More Perfect Union” in which the US Civil War isn’t a fought between Yankees and Confederates but between humans and giant ants.
DiPascale’s perfectly polished artwork makes turning the page a joy and Brooks’ explanation of ‘what really happened’ at the end will make any lover of well-researched alt-history squirm with joy.