A truly mind-affecting first issue of UltraMega is released among us this week from Image Comics. This one is awesome and eye-popping.
James Harren created the title and is also writer and artist. Dave Stewart contributes mighty heaps of colour, and Rus Wooten letters it.
How shall I describe UltraMega? Hmm. There’s a plague that has spread everywhere on Earth. It turns people into large Japanese monsters, “Kaiju”. There are three individuals who are Ultramegas, and they fight the monsters. The battles are huge, the size of cities. Heroes morphing to fight even more enormous morphing hideous monsters that are based on lamprey eels, octopus, tapeworms, frogs, whatever. Craziness.
It’s astounding, this first issue. Harren imagines and draws the most hideous of creatures, and contrasts them in a violently compacted cityscape along with ultra normal looking people. A mix of the mundane insults of economic downturns, twisted with electrifyingly dynamic fight scenes that would make the late Jack Kirby stand up at his drawing board and applaud.
You need to see this book to believe it and believe me, the extra-long story (62 pages per issue) is just getting started.
Image, Skybound imprint Ultramega #1, $7.99 62 pages of content. Teen+, Ultraviolent.
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