I really cannot rave about this first issue enough. Something old and something new, a shiny new toy in a well trod playground. Read Full Review

Electric Warriors #1 is a fun book packed with beautiful art from cover to cover. This is a perfect start to this series! Read Full Review

Today is a major day for new comics, but if you take a chance on one new book, make it Electric Warriors. This is part one of a six-part miniseries with vast potential to be something truly special. Fans are going to be talking about this comic tomorrow. Read Full Review

This is unlike anything else DC is putting out at the moment, and I highly recommend giving it a shot so we get more from this time period. Read Full Review

It's a series that has the potential to change the way we look at the DCU, and not just because of it's ability to mess with canon. Here's hoping it maintains this level of momentum. Read Full Review

Electric Warriors #1 is unlike anything else out there. It's weird and experimental and beautiful and engaging. If the story line feels a bit familiar, the execution of it is unique and fulfilling. Well worth the effort to seek out. Read Full Review

"Electric Warriors" #1 is an exciting exploration of a new future for DC, with great character work and visual stylistic balance. Read Full Review

Strange in all the right ways and epic in scope, Electric Warriors #1 is a chance well worth taking this week. Read Full Review

This mini-series has a good start, and while it opens with a fight, the rest of the issue is setting the stage and fleshing out this new world. The art and story are engaging, but its the colour work that really shines in this book. 4 out of 5 stars. Read Full Review

Travel Foreman and Hi-Fi team up to create art that's out of this world, and it'll have you marveling over it the entire time this issue is in your hands. Read Full Review

Despite the frequently gorgeous art and some intriguing ideas, this comic is disappointingly clumsy in execution, relying too heavily on characters shouting exposition at each other when a more thoughtful approach would work better. Characters consequently don't have sufficient room to 'breathe'. I want to like this. For someone like me who is a LSH fan and loves his sci-fi more than a little bonkers, this should be a book I can recommend. But I can't. Its story simply isn't told well enough. Read Full Review

The human interactions and design aspects of this first issue succeed where the high-concept dialogue and world-building falters. Read Full Review

Overall, just having Orlando on the project will keep me interested enough to read the next issue but this isnt a great start to a new title and it really needs to step up its game in terms of the artwork. Read Full Review

THE ELECTRIC WARRIOR is clearly trying to create a universe that it can call its own, which is confused by including nods to other DC franchises and characters (some subtle and some not so much so). I think it's going to take a good few issues to work in the required exposition because at the moment, it all feels a bit convoluted. Read Full Review

This book should have been released under the Vertigo umbrella. Not sure why it wasn't but that was the general impression I got after reading it for the second time.

One thing I do appreciate from DC Comics is that instead of pushing huge line-wide events every few months they push smaller scale mini-series highlighting characters or concepts that would not have received any attention otherwise. 

Electric Warriors is one of those series. It has no obvious connections to any current ongoing outside of tangential references here and there. I now sure how successful the series will be but the premise is interesting. 

At some point in the future, there was a universal calamity that leads to the Animal kingdom gaining dominion over the planet and humanity being enslaved. The book opens with humanity being given the opportunity to represent Earth as one of the Electric Warriors.

A collection of planets inhabitants that are giving political clout via competitive combat. Our lead, Ian has a xenophobic abrasive personality and hates the animal for their past misdeeds. 

His brother, Oscar Navarro is slated to represent humanities as co-holder of the electric seed with a representative from the Octopus Tribe. Oscar and Ian are often mistaken as twins although they were not born at the same time.  After, failing to talk to his brother out of leaving the family, Ian has Oscar attacked. He then takes his place in an attempt to avoid his mother losing her "Good" son. 

This is a really good story and I like that it's presented as a stand-alone miniseries as opposed to an ongoing. Its a risky proposition considering the current state of the comic industry. 

The characters and designs are all cool with the exception of the lead character design. It looks weird and not in a good way. The colors pop and really mesh well with the futuristic setting. It's a nice overall package that's off the beaten path in comics. 

I get the impression that Steve Orlando definitely has a story here. With slight changes here and there this series would feel right at home coming from Image Comics. I can tell he's relishing this opportunity. 

It's a decent well-written start and despite minor gripes here and there with some of the designs, I can't really fault the series. There aren't any standout moments in this issue but the series has a lot of potential for greatness going forward.  more

At first I wasn't interested by the name and the look of the heroes. Then come the pitch and I tell myself that I could like it. And I decide to try the first issue. So when I come her and see the first review not positive I was worried. But I still take it.
And I'm happy to have doing so. The story may look complicated, but if I understand it, I think for you it's not that complicated. Yeah there is a lot of now thing, now character. But aren't all story didn't start with new stuff ?
I like how they split the story like chapter in a book, and I really like how they construct Ian. And I'm really curious about Kana.

Cover - I take the variant that i prefer to the regular. But not really in link and man they should have work more on the outfit. 1/2
Writing - It was very well written. I understand Ian goal. I was one step ahead to what he will do, but that not a problem, it's nice to see we know where the story lead for now. And then there is the cliffhanger, not a fan of this one. 2.5/3
Arts - I like it even if I have doubt about the car been so close to regular actual cars. Ok I'm not familiarized to the outfit, but for now it's not very important. 2.5/3
Feeling - It's a good starting point, and I want to know more about this now future. 2/2 more

So... this is not anything like Electric Warrior, but it does seem to be a future sequel to Kamandi and I am totally down with that. I actually am super indifferent on Steve Orlando (only really enjoying his recent Image work), so the fact I enjoyed this comes as a surprise to me.

A Post-Kamandi future earth where they have gladiator space matches with aliens? Count me in! Though he isn't that popular, I actually enjoy Steve Orlando's work quite a bit (The Unexpected, JLA). I like his love for obscure DC lore and Morrisonian concepts present in his books, and I hope we continue to get more in the issues to come. This book was pretty dense, and I felt I got alot out of it. The art was alright, as I'm not the biggest fan of the 3d models used.

Let's hope it pulls through!

I was not impressed at all. I will not pick up issue #2. DC needs to forget this stuff and bring back the Legion!

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Comix4fever - Nov 15, 2018

The Legion will probably be back after Doomsday Clock.

TheAdventurer - Nov 15, 2018

I'm hoping this is a preamble to the return of the Legion.

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Meh.