Comic Review: Archangel #1
Quick Review: Worth picking up. Not perfect, but a compelling read by a master of one form moving to another. WWII, time-travel, espionage, and betrayal all wrapped up in a tight narrative.
TL;DR Review: I tend to run a few months (or years) behind in comics, but sometimes a new book will come out that jumps to the top of the pile. Archangel written by William Gibson is one of those.
In the sacred trinity of Bills (Bill Gibson, Bill Burroughs, and Bill the Cat) William Gibson is the one I find myself returning to most often to re-read. Though, in the run up to this election Bill the Cat seems more and more relevant, and clearly if the election go badly we will be headed to a William S. Burroughs style dystopian reality, i.e. somewhere like this.
Anyway, when I heard Mr. Gibson was writing a comic I was in. I have, or have read the Neuromancer Graphic Novel and have labored through the various movie versions of his work (New Rose Hotel is still the best of the whole lot), and even a script by Bill himself could improve those. So, there is some trepidation I approach this effort with.
But, this is a good comic. It is dense and is definitely not a superhero comic. (As Kelly Sue DeConnick mentioned the on twitter the other day: “ ONE MORE TIME: *comics* are a medium; *superheroes* are a genre.“)
There is a lot going on in one issue. You have set up for a wasteland of future, at least a couple of groups of time-travelers, and a body double con-job to change the future. All of which comes together for a nice finish. If every issue is like this one, this comic will be a crazy fun rollercoaster ride.
Hard to evaluate on just one issue, but I am all in for a few issues now.
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