Sentinel #1 (of 5)

Story: Sean McKeever
Pencils and Inks: Joe Vriens
Colors: Kevin Yan and Udon Coloring
Letterer: VC’s Joe Carmagna

Plot: Sentinel picks up where the original series of the same name left off. If you are not a follower of the original series before it was cancelled, a handy recap helps fill in the blanks. In this issue, Juston, and the Sentinel have disappeared from the town of Ladysmith, Wisconsin and are searching for his estranged mother. The entire town is searching for him along with members of the Commission for Superhuman Activities. The town is searching for their hero, the Commission is looking to destroy his Sentinel.

Review: I never read the original Sentinel series but the recap before the issue brought me up to date pretty quickly. The first issue spends most of it’s time capturing the relationship between the boy and his robot, while setting up the conflict for the next few issues in the last few pages. The extremely stylized art of Joe Vriens actually distracted me from the story, which seemed to be written for pre-teens. This comic is not for the average reader, and I think you would probably have to be a fan of the original series to get into it.


Special thanks go out to Jeremy Shorr, owner of Titan Comics for allowing us to use his advance preview books for review purposes.

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