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REVIEW: Backtrack #1 — "Another Movie Pitch Or OGN That Accidentally Got Into The Single Issue Comic Book Line"

Published Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:30:12 -0600

(Oni Press, creative team: Brian Joines, Jake Elphick, Doug Garbark, Jim Campbell)

Washed up criminal getaway driver Alyson Levy is at the end of her drunken rope. An impossibly good deal comes up, and this issue (which owes as much thematically to Black Science and Speed Racer as it does to Sliders) tosses a time traveling science fiction spin on the race genre. There's a reason why that "too good to be true" maxim became a cliche. The set up here is clever, even if the rough hewn artwork might be a touch more Tokyo Ghost than it needs to be. Sure, a lethal cross time Cannonball Run has some interesting ideas about it, but the lead is a cipher, the last page surprise is a shrug and the other characters can't even remember each other, so it'd be hard for you. This feels like another movie pitch or OGN that accidentally got into the single issue comic book line. RATING: MEH.

BACKTRACK #1 (MR)
(W) Brian Joines (A) Jake Elphick (CA) Marco D'Alfonso
Guilt weighs heavy on former criminal "wheelman," Alyson, who led an illicit life that left her shattered into pieces. But when she hears about a massive cross-history car race that grants the winner a chance to correct a single mistake in their life, Alyson will drive from the Big Bang to the death knell of the universe for the grand prize.