Things are not going well for Commander Kaimann. Luz, the love of his life, is dead, his home of Tortuga destroyed, his crew ghostly apparitions, and his crocodilian mutation taking over more and more of his body, Commander Kaimann is fighting for his life on multiple fronts. Just when it seems like despair may overtake him, a chance encounter with a strange violin connects him to Aurora, a woman living in a future where she is staring down almost certain destruction.
With his passions renewed, Kaimann hatches a bold plan to find a cure for his mutation and a future with his newfound love. However, Kaimann's past is catching up with more
Dying Star is a framed story, if the picture was removed from the frame, and sat in another room, and the frame was a living eight-dimensional entity that planted the tree that would one day drop a seed that would in turn grow into a forest that was cut down to make the paper that the picture was made from. All of this is happening, of course, while there are sword fights and spaceships. It's spellbinding and I loved every nanosecond of it from start to finish. Read Full Review
Let me say at the outset that I had not read The Incal going into this; I picked it up purely based on my enjoyment of Dan Watters' writing and Jon Davis-Hunt's artwork in other projects they've been a part of. That said, I thoroughly enjoyed this as a standalone tale. It had just the right amount of weird that I enjoy in a comic, the story was engaging and well told, the script was sharp and, in some places, quite funny, and the art was absolutely stunning (as I expected it would be). The ending left me only slightly unsatisfied based on how it started, but that may be due to my not knowing anything about the world of The Incal outside of this book. All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed it and will likely revisit it in the future.
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