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Publisher- Comix Tribe
Writer- Joe Mulvey
Art- Joe Mulvey

The Hook- Its a classic heist movie with Super powers. Double crosses, fast talking, and action

Imagine if you had super power. What would you do Save the world, help stop crime, maybe save some kitten?  Naa you would do none of that crap. You would go to Vegas and get to thieving. That is the idea behind this. It has couple of low level thieves with big level dreams using their powers to do it. The plots pretty cool. They tossed you in it pretty fast showing you the heist that turns bad quickly. The story follows a couple of thieves who could rip off by one of their partner and they seek revenge. The revenge goes bad and they force to work with the double crosses to face an even greater threat. It has a lot of factions going against each other. It is pretty good. Lot of this thing hence all if the plan actually make sense. That once everything is revealed does everything hold up if you read it again from the start. Lot of the times in these things it doesn’t. But here it all make sense. They knew the right amount of double crosses to do. They didn’t get to crazy and say “It was the DOG the whole time”. The art is very good, very colorful and it’s the atmosphere. Some of the powers pretty creative and the dialogue pretty crisp. I do wish they did more creative things with the powers and the setting. They didn’t really explore Vegas that much. It kind of could have taken place anywhere. I kind of wanted to scene with these guys just going to town on the Casino and either getting away or getting in trouble for it.  Of course that may because the character is smart enough not to pull that stuff. If it was me I probably end up got buried in a desert because I got blackjack 1000 times in row. But it still might have been fun to see. Also they didn’t use the power that much. The end also seem kind of rush. Think originally it was meant to be a longer miniseries and they missed some deadlines. Still its real fun story. The art was very good and colorful. It’s a very breezy read. Like if your order a nice heist flicks on Netflix.

Shawn Atkinson Bombshells Inc

Shawn Atkinson Bombshells Inc

Written by- Shawn Atkinson

Drawn by Shawn Atkinson

Publisher- Power Smith Studios

The Hook- Think Hero’s for hire with two women instead of men. Takes place in a world where the government made Superheroes. These two women were the first, but as the government advance the formula and made more advance metahumans. This made these women look like beta maxes, with breast...absolete and assign to desk jobs. These women decided to then stop working for the government and become bounty hunter, Bodyguard, and anything else that makes ends meet

One thing that stands out is the art. It is pretty cartoony but not to much so.  It makes all the character seem unique and stand out. My pets peeve in art is characters that look to much the same. This was namely bad during the early image era where EVERYONE LOOKED like Cable. Faces are very hard to make different namely with women. This because artist are afraid to add lines to their face out of fear, of making them look Manish or old. One way around this is to give them big, or multiple color hair. Another way is to make their design and shape different enough where if you saw them in shadow you can still tell who they are. This comic does both of that and it add in some different faces. It has 2 characters 1 black and one white. The white one is a big busty Blond Amazon with big muscles named Casey. They manage not to make her look Manish during this by the way.  The other one a slim...less busty black girl with a huge afro puff and funky dress style Named Sienna. She looks like she could be Luke cage daughter. The black girl uses gun and flight. The white girl uses super strength and heighten durability. This makes the character visual stand out and their type of dress look different. Although it make there disguised silly.  Like dressing as a cheerleader wont hide you if you’re a big muscle bound Amazon. But, that goes with the campy nature at times story. The exaggerated faces give even the background character some personality.

The dialogue is a bit old school and so it some of the story. Although that on purpose. For some that may be a bit to old school. It is like reading a 60-70’s era comics at time. The story pretty breezy. They give you are you need to know about the world pretty quickly. You get to know the character personality in a first few pages and you have a pretty good idea what the story arc going to be about in the last page. The characters manage to avoid the cliques. For instance the black character never raise her fist at say “Racism..the only problem I CANT out fly”. The women dress pretty normally but still sexy and they don’t hit you with GIRL POWER that much. It can be corny at times but pretty Fun.

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