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Review: Incarnate #2 by Nick Simmons

I've said it before, I'll say it again. There's something so refreshing about a comic book by a celebrity that not only does he write, but he draws as well. And, indeed, draws well.

Nick Simmons takes a classic manga action approach but, doesn't stay within the style associated with that approach in the US market. While he stretches moments out , creating a world and a tone, as well as embodying characters with the classic big eyes and pointy noses, he's not afraid to condense scenes into tiny-panel, heavy word count pages, using melodramatic manga energy to keep pushing the story on. After all there are scenes of violence, torture and sadism to be getting on with. This is after all a horror comic.

It's a merging of styles that suits the comic well, as it follows immortal demons bound to our world and  the society that both destroys and wishes to control them, and the machinations within.

And while the Revenants are clearly murdering bad guys, its their story that we follow, their leads as the book's protagonist, and their perspective reflected in the comic. Which makes the humans clearly the real bad guys, one evil being found by a greater one.

As with all Radical comics, this is geared to potential multi-media exploitation, and I could certainly see an anime  series, somewhere between Vampire Hunter D and the Society taking on these kind of elements. But Incarnate uses the comic book medium form well first and foremost and fights against my expectations constantly.

It's certainly melodrama but it has a deeper political dimension which holds my interest in a way that, let's face it, it didn't need actually need to, just to get published. Bravo.

Incarnate #2 is published by Radical Publishing today.

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