Mnemovore #1

Writers: Hans Rodionoff & Ray Fawkes
Pencils: Mike Huddleston
Colorist: Jeromy Cox
Letterer: Jared K. Fletcher

Rating: 2/5

Plot:

Olympic snowboarding hopeful, Kaley Markowic, is injured in an accident. Suffering from amnesia, Kaley attempts to reintegrate herself with life as it was before the accident.

Comments:

The first issue of any comic book is supposed to suck you in and leave you begging for more, right? The reader of a #1 issue should get some sort of sense of where the book is going. You shouldn’t be indifferent to it by the time you’ve finished reading it.

Mnemovore doesn’t leave you with a nagging desire to pick up issue #2. Sure, there’s a cliffhanger ending, but even that doesn’t do much to make me want to come back since the presentation is a bit off.

There’s really no buildup to the ending. We see Kaley after her accident trying to adjust to having amnesia. We also see her family trying to help her readjust by putting their daughter around things that might bring back memories.

Then we see a monster attack her boyfriend and eventually her.

…what??

It comes from out of nowhere. It’s kind of like having a civil conversation with a friend about cars and suddenly your friend purposely shoots a snot rocket at you. It just doesn’t make sense!

You know, I’m not by any means saying this is a bad book because it just may pick up in subsequent issues, but you shouldn’t have to wait until issue #2 or 3 to decide if you like a book or not. If it’s going to take that long, then it should have been a graphic novel or one-shot, not a miniseries.

I’m not here to tell you that though, I’m here to review THIS issue and honestly I’m not impressed with the writing.

I must say that the art, however, is fantastic. Mike Huddleston’s interior work reminds me of Michael Avon Oeming’s art in Powers. His painted cover, which is amazingly different from the traditionally drawn interior art, shows he’s a true talent.

I recommend grabbing this only if you’ve got three bucks burning a hole in your pocket and are interested in a story that might pick up. Judging from this issue, there doesn’t seem to be much guarantee that will happen.

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