The Nightly News

This is a comic thats screaming "love me or hate me" The art style looks like a drum n bass cd from 10 years ago. Or the many ads for computers and cars and McDonald's and everything else that have come out since then. Think flashy vector art with lots of unnecessary circles and stripes. That's where people will be divided. It is a design overload, and my first flip through it had me questioning its readability.

Turned out reading it wasn't difficult at all, and the style OD actually supports the story very well. For one, when they occasionally drop social-political information on you in the form of graphs and charts, they fit right in on the page. These might seem a tad preachy if it weren't for the notes from the author that accompany them, telling you to skip over them and keep reading "if you're like me and only care about your own personal entertainment (certainly not anything like children dying of dysentery in Togo)" Cynicism saves the day again! The other reason the style is appropriate is that the story is concerned with the media itself.

Its about a small group of radicals, lead by a mysterious individual known as "The Voice", who are at war with the News. The first issue has more shots to News anchor's heads than any other comic on the shelves. Its a fact. I counted 6. (7 maybe. one was offscreen) That averages 1 every 3 or 4 pages. And what's more, creator Jonathan Hickman is offering the chance for two lucky readers to get shot in the head in a future issue. You can't beat that.

If you're a fan of The Losers or Brian Wood, you will want to pick this up. It falls right in between.

-Nick