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Comic books are stupid.
There. I said it.
In the midst of tired reboots, retcons, point ones, and schisms, I’ve found myself looking more and more forward to the summer comic book movie than the wonderful bastardized medium that has inspired Hollywood.
Unfortunately, like most maladjusted, underweight/overweight, twenty-somethings, I can’t quit the damned things. Comic books are second nature to me --- right along with making eye contact with cleavage and talking on the phone while I use the bathroom. Which is why it is important for us nerds to share new discoveries offered by the comic industry. If we don’t roll the dice on a first issue from time to time then we are just feeding the endless cycle of soon to be redacted superhero adventures.
Yes, comic books are stupid. However, with each new discovery, hopefully, we can end the cycle and find something all-new and all-different to justify our Wednesday spending habits. That is where One Shot comes in.
Every week, I will pick up and review a handful of #1s from my local comic book store (Hi, Alliance Comics and Games in Silver Spring, MD!) and review them in a desperate attempt to reclaim my loose lost love…the funny book.
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HALO: FALL OF REACH – INVASION #1
Marvel
$3.99
Previous to his stint at Marvel, writer Brian Reed wrote for video games. Now, cynical critic logic would dictate that moving from the stiff structure of an X-Box game to the unique personalities of the Marvel U. would prove to be a difficult transition. Surprisingly though, Reed has a gift for relaxed plot and equally relaxed dialogue. No small feat when you consider the fact that he’s restricted to a licensed property such as Halo, a franchise bound by several games, novels, and the expectations of frothing FPS fans.
Nothing is particularly stand out about Fall of Reach, but it maneuvers through the restrictions of cross media marketing by effectively pacing itself through its first issue. If Reed’s goal was to, either, intrigue you enough to skim through issue 2 or to just make you go and pick up the game again, then he succeeded at both.
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