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Saturday, May 27, 2006 ( 5/27/2006 08:29:00 AM ) Bill S. ![]() Even this doesn't 'splain how he's able to hold his breath for twelve hours, of course, so there's obviously much more to the story. But Golden & Sniegoski manage to hold our attention with just enough promising conspiratorial info and paranormal hi-jinks to kick-start their story. One tantalizing nugget: our hero, while being interviewed by Krause, suddenly flashes on someone's memory of the investigator sitting behind the desk. So who on the plane knew the double-dealing agent? Was it the person responsible for the downing of Flight 654? Or was their presence on the plane the reason it was downed? I'm guessing it'll be a few issues before we get an answer to that 'un (though not as long, one suspects, as it takes to get any of the big Lost queries answered), but if the book continues to zip along as entertainingly as its first issue, this reader will have no objections. Paul Azaceta's art has a suitably dark Toth-like feel to it, though at times he makes his characters look a bit too stone-faced (apt, I suppose, when dealing with the blank slate character who is our hero). Needs a little work in the pugilism scenes, though, which he wisely lays out in smaller panels to lessen their awkwardness. I like the way he handles the more foreboding moments, in particular, but I have to admit it took extensive examination for me to recognize that the object the Woman in White was holding up to her mouth in one panel was, in fact, the hero's bruised hand. At heart, a superhero series tinged with elements of Medium/The Ghost Whisperer, Talent is a potential-packed actioner. As a publishing line, Boom! is definitely taking advantage of its position as relatively new kid on the block to provide readers with a strong set of entertainments unencumbered by decades of company-imposed rules. Precisely what we look for in a small comic book line – and oh too rarely get. # | |
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