Jeremiah Harm #1

You would think that with the coming Marvel: Annihilation and DC “52” event, veteran writer and creator Keith Giffen would be at home taking a nap on the couch. Nope. The man just doesn’t know when to rest. Instead he’s decided to unleash a flurry of new tales from up and coming publisher BOOM! Studios and his newest book, Jeremiah Harm is the opening salvo.

The story starts off simple enough with several alien prisoners escaping an inter-galactic prison. Faced with a difficult decision, the warden decides to release another prisoner, one who has a history with one of the escaped to track the fugitives down. A human named Jeremiah Harm.

What sounds like a fairly typical science-fiction/action plot is anything but typical. As you read the issue for yourself you’ll see what I mean. Keith Giffen, along with his sometimes partner in crime Alan Grant, take what could be just another blah sci-fi story and weave a true sense of alien wonder to it. While all the characters speak English (to make it easier for us humans to read and understand) you can tell Giffen and Grant took great pains to make their dialect something different. It takes a couple of pages to wrap your brain around it but by book's end, it truly adds a fun unique element to the story.

Assisting Mr. Giffen and Mr. Grant in bringing this tale to life is the amazing artwork of Rael Lyra. At first glance it invoked thoughts of the original Aeon Flux cartoons from MTV’s Liquid Television. Rael’s layouts are simple and easy to follow, his characters have a fluid feel to them, and his tech remains futuristic but doesn’t over shadow or distracts from the flow of the story. In my mind, Rael’s work is a perfect fit for this book.

There are always going to be a number of science fiction comics on the shelves each and every week for a reader to choose from. Jeremiah Harm looks to be one freshest and one of the best in a long time.

Jeremiah Harm #1 by Giffen, Grant, Lyra, and BOOM! Studios hits stores on February 8th.

Reviewer: Ian Ascher

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