Dead Ahead #1 Comic Review
I’d been looking forward to reading Dead Ahead since I first saw it solicited a few months back. The day it came out I grabbed it off the shelf and read it as soon as I got home. The verdict? It was a big let down.
Quick overview (POSSIBLE SPOILER?): Issue #1 starts- people on boat. Zombie outbreak. Issue #1 ends- people on boat.
The story was generic, and really didn’t go anywhere over the course of the first issue. The art is…well, confusing. The lack of any format at all on some pages makes it hard to follow. The coloring is awful does nothing at all to compliment the art, while the lettering is almost unreadable at times. Black lettering on very dark blue backgrounds, making it very hard to read. I won’t be reading the last two issues of this mini-series.
Interestingly, there is a sketchbook in the back of the comic with black and white art by Alex Niño, the series artist (who illustrated comics for classic horror comics Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella and Heavy Metal back in the seventies and went on to draw for DC Comics and Walt Disney), that is much better than the artwork in the story. When I googled his artwork, I found his older work and black and white work to be heads above the art in this book. The coloring and set-up of the book really seems to of ruined his art for me in this piece of work. Personally, I’d skip this comic book and instead check out his older work.
