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Namor
1/JUNE/2003
Publisher: Tsunami / Marvel Comics
Writer: Andi Watson & Bill Jemas
Pencils: Salvador Larroca
Inks: Danny Miki
Colors: J.D. Smith
Letters: Randy Gentile
Price: $25c US/R6.00 SA
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The Tsunami title with the biggest hype yet from Marvel hits the
shelves at the price of 25c / R6, so I picked it up, what the hell.
Namor plays with a human child on the beach and then returns under
the waves to Atlantis. He goes shopping with his mom and fishing
with his Grandma. Along the way the young child sees his idol, his
grandfather, the leader of the Tri-Team a group of underwater ‘police’
protecting Atlantis from harm.
Quite frankly I thought Namor was one of the stupidest Tsunami ideas
to be brought into production. A kind of Doctor Spock/Aquaman
ripoff who in my book is one of the weakest characters
out of Marvels past. Surprisingly this book was not too bad. The
artwork being it’s major saving grace. The art is
simply ravishingly good with the story being ‘cute’
at best. But at least it’s a nice break from the normal superhero
fare we’re all used to from Marvel.
Andi Watson [Love Fights, Geisha] writes a simple
tale with simple dialogue. It fits with the characters and situations
but is very childlike and has little to hook the average reader
into the title.
Salvador Larroca, enough said… he is so hot
on the pencils right now I would buy this book for the art alone.
His run on this title is proposed to end with issue # 6, so I guess
that’s when my interest will begin to wane. Let’s face
facts here, Larroca makes this book what it is. Bill Jemas
[head of Marvel Comics and definitely not a writer of any renown
even though he tries way too hard] is a fool and Andi Watson’s
storytelling in nothing special at this stage, even though his stuff
for Oni Press is supposed to be brilliant, so Larroca’s
the only reason people are gonna buy this as it currently stands.
Oh yeah and for the colours by J.D. Smith, buy
this for the colours as well, they’re great. Na-Bore is what
they’ll call it in a few months, because without mind-blowing
art this kind of thing on story alone is sure to suck.
In regards to my previous statement about Bill Jemas
being on the creative team, I think let’s leave the marketing
to the man, that’s his obvious strength, but by no stretch
of the imagination should he actually be creating work, it’s
a waste of his time and mine.
Cutesy comic that has some stunning art which adds to its value
with awesome pencils and colouring in particular. Pretty mundane
story so far, maybe it’ll get better but I probably won’t
be around to find that out.
Score 4/10
Reviewed By:Iain Duncan
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