A female cop on the job. Plenty to keep aware of, in a new title from Scout: Concrete Jungle #1.
This issue from writer Sheldon Allen (Spider-Man Unlimited, Crucified) starts with a rogue telepath, who begins hijacking unsuspecting minds and is doing bad, very very bad things. Crooked Detective Annie Brunson is charged with cracking the case with her new straight-laced telepathic partner, Faith Jones, but all is not well in the squad car. Hmm, in this future world of robots, junk falling from the sky, and genetic mutation, the setting is ripe for drama.
Artist Karl Mostert (DCeased: Unkillables, The Man Who F#%&ed Up Time) handles the assignment with care: the street chase scenes are inventive, the backgrounds and action are convincing. The largely horizontal panels are shown in long shot (full body), which could have alternated with close up panels to break the rhythm perhaps. But no matter, it’s an action-packed sequence to begin things. Colourist (Warnia Sahadewa, Wayfinder, Dry Foot) has her hands full, and provides astonishing pastel and atmospheric conditions to the thin line visuals.
A police procedural along the lines of JD Robb’s Eve Dallas novels, Concrete Jungle offers some cool sci-fi vibes, plenty of departmental drama, and the concrete city of the future as the playground of hard knocks!
Scout Comics, Concrete Jungle #1, $3.99 for 28 pages of content.
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