when i flipped through REPO
#1 at the comic shop, i had only picked it up because it had a black dude on the cover. Seriously! i wasn't all that impressed with it... so i put it back. as a result, i have no clue how good the first issue is... however, thankfully i actually read a little of #2 when that cover caught my eye... after reading the nifty little blurb on the inside cover and the first couple pages, i decided to buy it and see if it was any good.it was.
don't get me wrong... REPO is not the most excellent example of sequential storytelling ever produced, but as balls-out action comics go, it's a mutherfuckin' TOUR DE FORCE!!!
the premise of REPO is simple. as the aforementioned blurb from #2 put it:
TWO SMALL-TIME REPO MEN,KD AND EMIL, ARE AFTER AN ESCAPED HUMAN CLONE TO REPOSESS IT FOR A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PAYDAY. HOWEVER, THE HUGE PRICE ON THE CLONE'S HEAD HAS ALSO ATTRACTED OTHER REPO AGENTS INCLUDING LOLA BELL AND HER PARTNER KENT WHO ARE INCREDIBLY (FUCKING VIOLENT)DERERMINED TO BEAT THE BOYS TO THE PUNCH.
[note to indie comics creators: PUT A SIMILAR BLURB ON THE INSIDE FRONT COVER OF YOUR BOOK! I MIGHT BUY AN ISSUE!!]
TWO SMALL-TIME REPO MEN,KD AND EMIL, ARE AFTER AN ESCAPED HUMAN CLONE TO REPOSESS IT FOR A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR PAYDAY. HOWEVER, THE HUGE PRICE ON THE CLONE'S HEAD HAS ALSO ATTRACTED OTHER REPO AGENTS INCLUDING LOLA BELL AND HER PARTNER KENT WHO ARE INCREDIBLY (FUCKING VIOLENT)DERERMINED TO BEAT THE BOYS TO THE PUNCH.
[note to indie comics creators: PUT A SIMILAR BLURB ON THE INSIDE FRONT COVER OF YOUR BOOK! I MIGHT BUY AN ISSUE!!]
so anyways, REPO is the bomb! it is so full of weirdness and cool ideas, just when you think you are used to it, it bumps it up a notch! Emil and KD's "buddy cop movie"-style relationship (a la Lethal Weapon, 48 hours) seems so familiar. but like other cliches writer Rick Spears throws into the book, it's there to bluff you to sleep so he can pop you in the mouth with a surprise later... Rob G's art has an untrained enthusiasm to it, like he is saying to himself "Oooo, this is gonna be the shit!" while he's drawing his panels. i haven't seen so many action lines in an american comic since Rob Liefeld's hayday... Rob (G, not that other guy) seems as if he's drawing the action as fast as it's happening on the page. but that's just it: NOTHING'S happening on the page. the picture's aren't really moving, but reading them, you feel like they are! the combination of Rick Spears' writing and Rob G's art makes for a story that slaps you in the face and then runs before you know what hit you!that doesn't sound fun, but it is! the 6 issues series is on issue 5... i most definitely recommend it for people who like action movies that taste great and are less filling (what me and my boys call "Good Ignorant Fun"). so if that's you,cop REPO. [the trade collection is available on Amazon! click here
]holla!
samax.
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