Furious is a gritty and realistic ride into the belly of what it means to be a hero. Bryan J.L. Glass has the sort of writing that puts you in the plot, gripped by the frustrations and discomforts of the heroine “The Beacon”, or as the media has instead dubbed her, “Furious”.

From the classics onward, it has always been an almost naive facet of comics that for the sake of immersion we set aside certain elements of the story to embrace the fantastic. Furious disregards that placid naivety with an air of severity reminiscent of Garth Ennis’ “The Boys”. Now, replace the over-the-top gruesome nature of The Boys with a far more realistic and relatable level of destruction and brutality, and you get Furious.

The fact of the matter is when the brutality comes? You want it. You need it. It’s boiling in your veins because the picture Glass paints puts you there with “The Beacon” as she struggles to do right in a world that’s just as crappy as our own.
Drawing you into the world Glass weaves is the aesthetic design of Victor Santos, whose art style has the weight and severity that a story like Furious demands. Each and every dark twist in the plot is accompanied by a fittingly sculpted panel with a consistency of flow that is frankly rare to see maintained as capably as Santos manages.

All things considered this is shaping to be an incredible series to follow and you should make sure you get in at the ground floor. As first issues go, it has everything you could want, coupled with the right amount of lingering questions to pull you forward – This one is a must have. This series has the sort of passion and frustration that pulls you in and drags you through the rage and the anguish until you’re furious. more