This is a well-executed comic in all the superficial ways; Alejandro Fuentes and Steve Hamaker's art is engaging and distinctive, and smartly uses a cartoony style (probably a relic of the fact that this started life as an animated movie). It provides an engagement with the audience that you won't find in Coldplay's music, or with this generic story. I will admit that there's the germ of an interesting idea in the fact that the "feed" provides both the tool of oppression and the seeds of its own defeat, but that's about the only thing about this comic that isn't utterly predictable so far. Who knows, maybe it will evolve in fascinating ways in coming issues; it's not even out of the realm of possibility that co-writer Mark Osborne (working from the band's story outline) has injected some deliberate subversion into this comic, and in fact is biting the hand that feeds him. After all, just as even the most subversive musical ideals can be transformed into bland filler for dentist's offic Read Full Review
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