Triage is a fast paced sci-fi fish out of water tale with compelling characters and huge mysteries. Read Full Review

TRIAGE #1 from Phillip Sevy and Dark Horse is for anyone looking for high-concept story told through high-weirdness art. Read Full Review

Would I recommend Triage #1? I feel as if I would to anyone who is looking for a story that hits you for being both personal and out there as something sci-fi. I mean, how does a nurse measure up to a superhero and a commander? I would want to see this through to the end for how an underdog like that rises to the occasion. Read Full Review

Philip Sevy's dream project is off to a fantastic, fantastical start. Read Full Review

Forging a story of personal identity to multiple strong narrative hooks across a whole cast of one Triage #1 is a bold opening gambit for this new series. Shifting well to creator-owned work, Phillip Sevy goes big, but also keeps it personal, tempering the concepts with well worn character work coupled with solid artwork. Part superhero story, part end-of-the-world drama, and all journey of self-discovery, Triage #1 is a bombastic and gripping character study. Read Full Review

A fun entrance to an all new universe written, drawn, and colored by one terrific creator Read Full Review

All in all, Triage #1is a unique start for a new sci-fi story. It introduces the reader to the characters while leaving a mystery to pull the reader along for the next issue. With just a little more focus to the story so things could be a little more fleshed out I think Triage #1 could be the start of a very notable story. Read Full Review

Despite the books really nice artwork and fine paneling, there are some glaring issues with the writing itself. Sevy will hopefully have a chance to iron out the problems. Read Full Review

The first issue wasn't wholly representative of that since it felt like a chore to power through the opening while constantly feeling like you've missed something, but hopefully the rough patch to an otherwise promising story has passed. Read Full Review

I sort of get where Sevy is trying to go with this story but Im not sure its coherent enough for me to make me want to pick up the next issue and continue the journey. Read Full Review

I don't see anything particularly fresh in this book. A woman and her doppelgängers from of 3 different alternate universes were chosen for an unknown cause, all three of them converge at a single, isolated and bizarre location. Soon they were forced to jump into the main protagonist's world which was not used to anything extra ordinary until now. The narrative started off good but ended up being bland, I thought the art was good nonetheless.

Review copy provided, Triage by comic book duo Phillip Sevy [@phillipsevy]
(Artist, Writer) and Henry David [@gofrankgo] (Letterer).

Background Info
The premise of this comic revolves around the philosophical question of "what is the purpose
of life" a fascinating way to start off a comic for sure. We get our first look at our main
character Evie Pierce the nurse helping a women give birth at her hospital.

After this we are treated to sequence of perspective shifts to characters I shall refer to as
Fallout girl, and super BL. They show us a glimps of these characters in their worlds. Fallout
girl lives in a post apocolyptic wasteland where they must make the most of their limited
resources.

Super LB on the other hand is introduced in one of the few stand out pages where Henry's
lettering really adds depth to the scene and makes it far more dynamic then it would have
been otherwise.

From what we are shown its safe she's the best hero in a hero society. We know very little
about these characters at this point but this is the first chapter. Then our 3 characters get
Isekai'd (no truck unfortunately) into a world of what I can only assume to be a 4th central
character that we will refer to OBL.

It is in this page that we are treated to a second amazing page, the surrealism of this page
contrasts amazingly well with the rest of the book and is on the comics cover. It is here that
OBL explains to the characters that they must stick together no matter what to survive.

Here we meet our main antagonist who crashes this party like Terry Cruse on a Jet sky at a
wedding. This is also were I will end the background section of this review.

The Review

In this first chapter, we really don't get to know these characters that well. In fact their
clothes are about all we know about them. What Phillip has done is created a very ambitious
setting for his narrative but he is stuck with a dangerous balance.

Too little and the characters become one dimensional, too much and it effects pacing. Speaking
of, we have 3 main characters from 3 different worlds with 3 different stories but we don't
know anything about them stand out.

They feel more like 3 side characters rather then 3 main characters, not to mention Hunter
steals the show with his flamboyant entrance. Every panel he is on has more impact and
personality then any of the panels with the other characters.

This comic has me confused, are we rutting for hunter kill the other 3 or the reverse?
The characterization makes it very hard to emphasize with these characters. What should we
emphasize with if at all?

This inability for the reader to have a stake in the characters means more often then not
as long as Hunter is flamboyant as he usually is then they will be rooting for him to win.
We also never really find out what makes this nurse so special when compared to the other 2

She's just there, she fades into the obscurity of the pages. Again this is a very ambitious
comic. But alas it buckles underneath the weight of its own ambitions. more

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xXDibbs - May 17, 2020

Correction GoFrank's IRL Name is Frank Cvetkovic

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