Tag: Kumar Sivasubramanian

Dark Horse Presents (1986) #154

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Finally… a solidly mediocre issue.

Iron Reich 3000 isn’t bad. Land writes it like an infantry comic set in the future (one has to wonder about Starship Troopers influences) and Saiz and Blanco do a good job with the art. Saiz’s abilities are clear here… but he does draw all his characters like male models. It’s hard to believe they’re grimy soldiers.

The second installment of Full Throttle is better than the first. Sivasubramanian is only confusing when it comes to referring back to that first part, actually. More nice art from Jarvis. It’s a story about robotic gorillas—and a cute little robotic monkey. It’s got to be all right.

The second part of the Angel story is a little bit better than the first, as Golden and Sniegoski complicate the setup a little. Horton and Lee’s artwork of scary forest animals is good, far better than their people.

Dark Horse Presents (1986) #152

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Von Shelly has another fumetti this issue. While I suppose it’s a bit of an achievement to mix all the photos together, it’s godawful. Von Shelly’s writing is real bad. It’s clear he thinks his work is maybe the greatest thing ever; only a similarly minded (i.e. illiterate) reader would enjoy it.

Full Throttle is a futuristic bike messenger story and it makes no sense. The confusing nature of it aside, writer Sivasubramanian has a couple good details (both in the first few pages, but both very creative). Jarvis’s artwork is excellent. He maintains a nice balance between detail and motion. Even if it’s incompressible, it’s entertaining.

And finally, another installment of Doc Thunder from Armstrong. This installment manages to be less ambitious but somehow stupider than the first one. Armstrong does detail on a gradient—sometimes his art has some detail; usually it’s rather unfinished. It’s a lousy comic.