SAVIORS FROM MARS?
Welcome back to Sunset City — where the boys crave brains and the girls are pretty!
Having blown off a meeting with world-weary private investigator Vampirella, the fortified city’s iron-fisted ruler Purgatori now summons the Daughter of Drakulon to translate for a visitor who’s just crashed her saucer on the outskirts of town. Vampi doesn’t speak Martian, but the telepathic Dejah Thoris is quick to pick up the local tongue — and the news she brings is a bombshell. If Dejah’s story checks out, the cure to the all-male zombie plague is within Puragori’s grasp — she just needs to moti more
The size of the ensemble in a book like this really runs the risk of making it all feel a bit too cluttered, but the creative team really finds a way to pace it all that manages an impressive amount of balance for a cast that is as complex and diverse as the one thats appearing between the covers of Blood Red. It would be difficult to make something like this work in the long run with out characters and. conflicts crashing into each other, but the overall feel of this series is one that inspires confidence in something that might strikingly well-articulated by the time it hits its final panel. Read Full Review
DIE!NAMITE: BLOOD RED #2 offers enough sharp banter and matriarchal apocalypse intrigue to reward loyal readers, but cuts corners in both art and emotional payoff. The sci-fi twist delivers novelty, yet sacrifices room for its own ideas to breathe. If your comic budget demands results, this issue won't waste your time, but it may leave you wishing for more substance beneath the snark and spectacle. Read Full Review
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