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Covers aside, this series is produced by a group of Filipino artists, and the letters pages have some lovely praise for their work and for their representation of a talented group of South Pacific creators. A couple of other names are mentioned, Whilce Portacio on Wetworks and Nick Manabat on Cybernary (whose work I love, and who died far too soon), but I have to say that Ronaldo Roxas and Oliver Isabedra are, in my opinion, light years ahead of those two. Not that Portacio and Manabat are by any means poor artists - in fact, of the early Image artists, they may be amongst my favourite. But there's a nice mesh in today's artists of contemporary (for the time) style and an earlier, cleaner style of comics. At no point in this series was I confused as to which panel I should read next, nor who was talking to whom. That's not always a given in early 90s comics.
Perhaps it's time to go through the collection and have a theme week of Filipino creators.
Story-wise, this is a pretty standard quest narrative. We've got a hero who is out of his usual milieu, an enemy with a connection to our protagonist, a mysterious gem that must be procured/arrived at, and perilous obstacles to overcome. Today's is a dragon that is really, really cool.
More to follow.
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