She’s a survivor, this young woman named Hunter. Hunter? 
Such an ironic name, seeing as her birth parents were being hunted, running for their lives until the big crash. What a nightmare. Now a teenager and tossed out of her foster home, Hunter is looking into her past, trying to find out where she came from. That search gets dangerous in a hurry, as vampire assassins discover her at a weak moment!
Cult of Ikarus #1, from Scout Comics, stands out from the crowd of comics primarily because of its writing, and here’s why: Jenna Lyn Wright (Movie: Ambition. Comics: Oz Annual: Patchwork Girl, Tales of Terror Quarterly: Bachelorette Party, etc) sets out the hooks, and reels us in with a twisting, winding storyline. We are fed just enough information to keep us moving along, gathering clues. Hunter’s internal monologue is revealed in bits and bites while the story dialogue and situations play out. So, it’s back and forth between what Hunter is telling us, along with what we see happening. Altogether, it’s a strongly scripted adventure into horror.
Karl Slominski (Evermore Falls, Split Lip, Ted Calwell and the Monster Kid, etc) provides miles of black line and shade and shadow. The scratchy and tangled hair on the characters, the incredibly wild monsters, the kinetic energy of the crowd scenes; these all add power to the book. The colours are sickly, vibrant, clashing, and blending. Splotchy blobs of dayglo grafitti, spatters of exploding lines on impact, how wonderful can it get?
Great consistency of letters, sound effects, dialogue by Taylor Esposito top it all off, making Cult of Ikarus #1 a really good, way-above-average stride into the world of vampires, rock grrrls, and mayhem!
Scout Comics, Cult of Ikarus #1, $3.99 for 28 pages of content. Mature readers
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