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Rare Flavours, the next miniseries Ram V and Filipe Andrade debuted in August. Kind of. BOOM! released an ashcan (black and white only comic, with lettering from Andworld Design) called Rare Flavours #1 Tasting Menu Ashcan.
Posted in: Comics | Tagged: Boom! Archaia, maria llovet, matt kindt
Three Moments Of An Explosion: Three Boom #1s
Wading into Boom's #1s, or wading into Boom's "in the midst of all these press releases about our first issues selling out three printings before a reader can buy them, hopefully no one remembers how buoyed these numbers are by some pretty heavy retailer incentives" #1s.
Heartbeat #1 by Maria Llovet, Andworld Design, and Andrea Rosenberg: An early, sinister work from Maria Llovet (There's Nothing There, Faithless) about a girl in a high school (Eva) who discovers another classmate's awful secret. I imagine an anime influence on the series as a whole and specifically Kakeguri's Midari Ikishima on Heartbeat's main character. It almost reads as a YA series: A scholarship girl from the wrong side of the tracks goes to a fancy private school where she's physically abused for being poor. According to the press release which gave away the first issue's twist, the story will continue into the depths of dark obsession.
I didn't care for the looseness of what I now know is is Llovet's post-Heartbeat work (Heartbeat [2015] precedes There's Nothing There [2017] and Faithless [2019]), so Heartbeat is right up my alley.
Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1 and 2 by Jeff Loveness, Lisandro Esterren, Patricio Delpeche, and Steve Wands : I'm a sucker for a Cold War spy story, and the watercolors are beautiful. The heavy narration is par for the course given the setting, though with art this strong, I think much of it could be stricken. I'm not entirely sure what to make of it. UFO stories are fine. Cold War spy stories are fine. Strange Skies Over East Berlin issue two doesn't quite congeal for me. Maybe there's a je ne sais quois in the pitch that didn't materialize in the issue?
Folklords #1 by Matt Kindt, Matt Smith, Chris O'Hallorhan and Jim Campbell: I stan Matt Kindt's work, so it doesn't surprise me that there's alternate realities going on in this almost-cute issue about a boy that dreams of the 20th century whilst living in the Middle Ages. Folklords charmed me, and I'm interested to see where the team takes the set up they put down in the first issue.
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