From Renegade Game Studio.It's Jesus to the rescue when a bureaucracy menaces Sunstar's grandmother; and millions of lives are threatened by a villain Sunstar bullied in high school. PLUS: new AHOY prose stories & pictures.
In just one issue Mark Russell, Richard Pace and Leonard Kirk deliver a variety of storylines and emotions that are both real and melodramatic and tinged with tragedy. I can't think of many more emotive comic books than this one that tries to evoke self-reflection in the reader than ‘Second Coming: Only Begotten Son'. One to definitely recommend to the FOX News viewer in your life. Read Full Review
Overall Second Coming continues to be one of the more fulfilling reads in comics today. The ideas are clear and precise and executed with a pristine vision. Somehow they have made a book costarring Jesus that could appeal to the most steadfast atheist or an open-minded Christian. If they are only willing to listen. Read Full Review
It's an interesting mix of things, bringing these two stories together, but it makes for a very balanced issue and while it's still a little unclear where the overall story is going, it doesn't really feel like there needs to be a strong, driving plot. It's a nice change of pace. Read Full Review
This issue brings in a nemesis to Sunstar dubbed Cranius, who doesn't appear to have anything to do with the rest of the plot and merely serves to give the world a shakeup. He's introduced in the most clumsy flashback panels that look at first glance like they found their way into the comic by accident. There's are a number of other interesting moments beyond that, but I feel as though we've given up on maintaining a narrative.
I enjoyed the short story in the backmatter called Roach, which was a Kafkaesque story about a teacher encountering Franz Kafka as a cockroach in his kitchen.
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