Life In Four Colors Book Review:
Fallen Justice #2
Carey Kelley, Steven Forbes, Harold Edge, and Ross Hughes are back. With a vengeance. One of the most talked about independent comics being produced in this day and age lives up to all the accolades that have been deservingly heaped upon it.
And I don't even have to wait to get it out of the mailbox before I'm already impressed. How's that? Well right when I was beginning to think to myself "I wonder when issue #2 of Fallen Justice will be coming out?".....Poof!
There's that big yellow envelope sticking out of the mailbox.
Kudos to Carey and the crew for keeping this book on a very regular shipping schedule. A feat rarely achieved by mainstream comics, let alone small press books. That in itself is an amazing achievement.
And only the very first thing of many about the second issue of this hard hitting seven issue series to really step up to the plate and just crush it....sending it wailing out of the ball park.
From the very beginning of the book...with Justice Theta doing some serious soul searching on our moon when he "overhears" a robbery in progress. From that point on the story is off and running as we (the many readers enjoying this book thus far) are introduced to Comedy and Tragedy, the two bank robbers in question. And two of the most interesting characters that I can recall seeing in comics for a good long while.
Events during the bank robbery itself continue to affect how our terminally ill hero sees the world he lives in...and his role in it.
A past love interest uses a very appropriate choice of words as she tells Ben (Justice Theta) that he needs to "get your affairs in order" One of my personal favorite scenes in the book.
Top it all off with the introduction of the villain known simply as Mob. I really like this guy.
Only thing I don't like about the book this time around....no matter how hard Carey and the guys try...I just don't think it will be humanly possible to get issue #3 to my mailbox fast enough for me.
Explosive. Addictive. Fantastic combination of story and art that makes it feel like the creative team on this book was hand picked by God.....or at least Roy Thomas.
Bill Gladman - Bill is a writer and illustrator and currently working on several different projects including the first issue of an ongoing comic book series (Prodigy), an illustrated fantasy novel (The Book of Noheim), and the first of four illustrated science fiction/fantasy novels (Jack the Rabbit, Living Legend of the Purple Plains) as well as a light-hearted on going mini-comic (Three Wise Men). Bill also pens a column for Comic Related and will be doing a mix of regional convention coverage.
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