So are you a fan of the great cosmic comic book story lines but sometime you just feel like there to hard to get into them ? If you have not been reading them all your life ? Are you also a fan of the great Jack Kirby. Well then I found the book for you.
It is Image’s “Jersey Gods” a ongoing series with writer Glen Brunswick (“The Gray Area,” “Killing Girl”) and illustrator Dan McDaid .
This comic is a great way to get into the world of cosmic story lines and is very accessible to new readers. As our story starts off with Zoe a girl that is looking for true love then one day she is at a mall in New Jersey the gods (Barock and Helius) are going one on one with an evil god from the planet (Nebulon). You can see that Zoe has found Mr Right and she falls in love with Barock almost instantly.
Then we go back over 10,000 years ago on Neboron the home planet of the gods and find out they had this huge civil war that kill Barock’s father.Now in issue 3 that came out last week we get a bit of backstory as comic book great Mark Waid begins his tale of this great war.
This is the first of four consecutive six-pagers that will tell us the tale of a crucial battle in the history on Neboron. The art is done by Eisner Web-comic nominee Joe Infurnari and it something you don’t want to miss. Mike Allred, Darwyn Cooke, Paul Pope and Erik Larsen have all done covers for Jersey Gods. I know I can’t wait to find out how this story line will turn out.
I know I am enjoying this book and I would love to meet Dan McDaid maybe get a sketch done since I am in love with his work. So head over to your Comic store and ask them if they have Jersey Gods. I would like to thank Paul Sager over at Continental Comics for telling me about this amazing series. Sometime your comic book store owner knows what there talking about…..sometimes;)
Simon Daoudi
Simon@comicimpact.com