Cave Pictures Publishing; $3.99
The No Ones is compelling in its presentation, ambitious in its scope, and riveting in its delivery. In the end, from the most high-brow of reading down to the pulps, there’s really only one test: Do you want to turn the page?
And, yeah, oh, man, will you ever want to keep turning the pages of this story! Writer Jim Krueger (Earth X, Justice) gives this team of difficult, pretentious heroes just enough humanity that we don’t utterly dislike them, but he also roots them firmly in the negative aspects of our pop culture-driven world. It paints them in an uncomfortable negative light (uncomfortable because it seems realistic). And then there’s a cover-up, so maybe they’re even worse than it first seemed.
And then when it seems he and artist Well-Bee have given us a solid introduction to who these heroes are, they change the whole world on them. The moodiness of Well-Bee’s art – akin to John Paul Leon’s work circa Static Shock: Rebirth of the Cool – propels the ambiance right along with Krueger’s story.
It seems like it’s going to be a spectacular ride.
-J.C. Vaughn