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GENE SIMMONS's Zipper #1From: GENE SIMMONS.com Created by GENE SIMMONS Written by Tom Waltz Pencils by Casey Maloney Inks by Stacie Ponder Colors by Dusty Yee Letters by Neil Uyetake Published by IDW, 24 pages for $3.99 Zipper is the story of alien denizen Xeng Ral, a creature born to a world of collective-consciousness thinking who longs for individuality. The story opens as Xeng is being brought to trial for thinking of himself as "one" rather than as a mere member of the collective. It then explodes into action non-stop alien-in-leather action of the very coolest variety. This book is the latest comic brainchild from legendary KISS front man GENE SIMMONS. I say latest because KISS is a band who’ve been in and out of comics for pretty much as long as I can remember and who lately seem to be enjoying some kind of comic renaissance. However, the grunt-work of making this book was done by Tom Waltz and Casey Maloney, the creative team that brought you last year’s critically acclaimed OGN Children of the Grave. As with that book, this one opens very well. Writing first issues is tough, but Waltz has chosen a starting point that drops us right into the action from the, well, from the second page onward. That makes this book a fun ride from start to finish. It’s efficient and effective writing. This first issue raises a number of interesting story questions and then provides exactly enough payoff to show that, yes, the story is indeed going to go somewhere. With all of that said, the thing that makes this book work is the art. Maloney has a FANTASTIC character design here, and he does a great job of keeping the story moving, even when the action on the page is nothing more than talking. And then too, the colors by Dusty Yee make the linework sing. It’s a truism of comics that great colors can make a merely decent book look terrific. Well, this book already looked terrific; with these colors, it’s awesome! It’s so, so good to see a great comic from an independent publisher that can compete on art. Art sells books, especially first issues. And who knows? Maybe GENE SIMMONS’s name will help sell a few books as well. I certainly hope so because this is a book that deserves a chance. I really enjoyed it and recommend it without reservation. Go buy it! I guarantee it’ll give you your recommended daily dose of bad-ass-aliens-in-leather-beating-down-bad-guys-with-medieval-melee-weapons, and that’s a great thing. |
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