Comic awareness

Just thought I would weigh in with 2 quick recommendations for comic goodness.

The first recommendation is for Livewires, a 6 issue mini-series by Adam Warren and Rick Mays. This series' last issue shipped this month, but it is definitely worth the effort of searching it out. It is manga-flavored cyber-punk that starts lighthearted-but-dark and ends with a surprising poignancy that was quite effective.

It is the story of 5 robots semi-autonomous, artificially intelligent, limited-nanofunction, human form mecha constructs (they find the r-word to be derogatory) of Project Livewire. They are a covert operation that tracks down and targets other top-secret programs for destruction.

I can only hope that this will be collected into one of those manga-style digests and that sales will warrant another mini or an ongoing series. This title is what Marvel should be doing more of. It's a fresh new take on the Marvel Universe within the current continuity. In fact, in issue #4, they have the most realistic and humorous conversation between two AIM agents waiting for a client to pick up a shipment.

Here's the scene; hopefully you can read it...





My other recommendation/plea is that you order (in Previews this month!) the new Sentinel series by Sean McKeever. The first series was one of the Tsunami titles released by Marvel along with McKeever's Inhumans. Both titles are worth searching out (Mary Jane and Gravity are also worth checking out). McKeever deserves the title of talent deserving of wider recognition. I'm here to help him get it.