Comic Review: Looker #1
DC have yet another #1 to share with us and with more vampire action as well.
Comic: Looker #1Written By: Ian EdgintonPencils By: Mike S. MillerPublisher: DC ComicsRelease Date: OUT NOW IN STORES & DIGITAL DOWNLOAD (VIA COMIXOLOGY)
rating: 3
A year into DC52 and I'm down to about Batman and Catwoman on my monthly pull list. I still dabble with the odd Superman title, flutter in and out of the odd event or guest appearance but all in all I'm back to not being the biggest fan of the monthly DC selection and finding the changes made since the reboot largely inconsequential. That said, I'm still up for a new issue and Looker#1 caught my attention. Thanks largely to the striking cover art, I was intrigued to what was within the pages of Looker and what I found was a mixed bag of great and not so great. Essentially Looker has a nineties TV show feel to it. Hot girl (this time a Supermodel, Emily Briggs) gets a set of powers (this one's been turned into a vampire) and fights the evil doers (this issue sees Emily go up against a succubus). Think Dark Angel, via Buffy, via, well pretty much any and all weekly freak of the week TV shows over the last fifteen years or so.
With all of the familiarity though, Looker still managed to hold some promise of going somewhere good. Miller's artwork lifts the comic quite substantially and so far the lead redhead is written with a good mix of smartz and cool, with her backstory laid out without getting boring and her day to day work feeling like it might go somewhere quite enjoyable as the trail headed toward the vampire that turned her beginning to take shape. Looker had shades of 'Crimson', the old Wildstorm vampire ongoing from Humberto Ramos and Brian Augustyn that I feel has never quite been appreciated enough over the years. Some of the wilder vampire art certainly harks back to the sort of stuff seen in Crimson and while the story is nowhere near as intriguing yet, I'm down for some more comic book vampire action I think, as long as they don't start sparkling all over the place anyway. I'm still on the fence about whether the TV show set up of Looker will have legs but something about this first issue got it's vamp fangs into me and I'll more than likely be back for more for at least for a couple more months. 