Issue: After Dark #1
Creators: Antoine Fuqua, Wesley Snipes
Writer: Peter Milligan
Artist: Jeff Nentrup, Sara Biddle
Letters: VC’s Clayton Cowles
Cover Artist: Francesco “Matt” Mattina
Editor: Renae Geerlings
Publisher: Radical Publishing
Release Date: August 2010
Pages: 56
Price: $4.99
“From celebrated director Antoine Fuqua (Brooklyn’s Finest,
Training Day), acclaimed actor Wesley Snipes (Blade) and award-winning
writer Peter Milligan (X-Statix, Skreemer) comes the post- apocalyptic
saga of After Dark! Guided by an amoral drifter, a crew of jaded
mercenaries must travel into the dark places of the ruined planet, and
the even darker places of their own pasts, on a journey to find a woman
who might just save the world. But maybe the world is past saving. And
maybe the people who still inhabit that world aren’t worth saving. After
Dark is a story of hidden demons and the passion for survival, set in a
future that could very well be ours.“
Artwork: 4.0 out of 5
Close your eyes. Now how dark it is? Fine go turn off the light, and now
close your eyes. Pretty dark huh? Well imagine it’s like this all the
time. A time when the dark is a place you don’t want to be. Welcome to
the world of After Dark. The art in this book does exactly what
it sets out to do, be dark. To me it has that 80′s sci-fi movie vibe as
nothing ever seems to not be bleak. Great character designs, fun panel
placements and that dark feel to just really set the tone so well. A
great looking book.
Story: 3.5 out of 5
Well I have to admit that at the beginning I was a little lost on this
one. It was maybe a quarter of the way through when I really got the
hang of things on this one. So what I like about it were the character
interactions. The way that they talk about the environment surrounding
them really gives off that creepy vibe that it is leading to. What kinda
tossed me off the track though, was what I found to be a little odd
idea of people being able to navigate the dark. I don’t know I just
didn’t see anything that needed to lead to some people having “powers”.
Overall though I liked it. I liked where it went and how it got there.
Dying Breath: 4.0 out of 5
A nice dark existence is what is apparently in store for us, as the
characters in this book long for days of the past, our past. I liked the
look of this book a bit more than I did the story. That’s not to say
this ain’t going somewhere. Where that final page left off I want to
know what is going on with it now! So I can’t say it’s a horror style
book, but it is dark, and something is out there in that dark that is
coming. So look, read Radical books, get into it and then you can be on
board with me! Having fun reading comics again!
