Parallel Man #1
FutureDude Entertainment
Story: Jeffrey Morris and Fredrick Haugen
Writers: Jeffrey Morris and Fredrick Haugen
Penciler and Inker: Christopher Jones
Colorist: Zac Atkinson
Lettering: Cortland Bechtell and Jordain Cheng-Kinnander
Reviewer: Rob Wrecks
Summary: Take a thrilling ride across the Multiverse with Agent Nick Morgan, a super-soldier gone rogue, as he fights to prevent the evil Ascendancy from enslaving alternate Earths! For over 40 years, the Ascendancy has pillaged other worlds—now its sights are set on us!
Along the way, Nick meets his doppelgänger from our Earth, Nicholas—a lazy gamer/geek. Together they must fight amid parallel realities, including industrial dystopias, foreboding ice worlds, and a continent where dinosaurs have evolved into humanoid warriors.
Review: When you think about it, every comic you read such as X-Men, Superman, Brimstone, or various others is all essentially parallel worlds with some differences here and there. But rarely do you see a comic centered solely on the idea of parallel worlds itself. Until recently that is thanks to Jeffrey Morris and Fredrick Haugen of FutureDude. And what a fantastic start they are off too with this comic. The idea of parallel worlds is something of a concept I honestly love, and is something that actually helps me somewhat to enjoy whatever changes that get made for any comic that gets adapted to a movie. Keyword there being 'somewhat' folks. And if you just happen to ask a friend of mine, this particular love of mine is why I wound up with the awesome nickname of 'Sci-Fi' back in High School. The cover by Dylan Hansen is something I honestly like a lot. As he awesomely managed to bring to life a lizard man on a dinosaur chasing after a futuristic person. Not often you see that sort of thing and Dylan did it really well. Also serving as something of a nice little teaser for what you are likely to be in store for.
At pretty much around the beginning of this comic, a lesson is served well in why a country should not have one type of super power in their hands. Since then its a slippery slope to bad things happening. Such as taking over other parallel worlds. As sooner or later, it will come back to bite them in the butt in some way. And I'm getting the feeling that that is exactly what we will be seeing as this comic goes on. The first occasion with Warren Cartwright we see in this title is something I found to be a little amusing due to what he doesn't see as crazy. And once folks have read this, you'll likely see why I found it a bit amusing. Or you might think I'm a bit nuts for doing so. Agent Morgan (Who I am to believe is our main leading man of this here comic) has a piece of technology I certainly wouldn't mind having! Though I wonder if you could adapt it for other parts of clothing? I do know one thing, the piece of tech he has would be more than likely enough to put heavy Religious types up in arms over it. But I doubt Jeffrey and Fredrick were going for any sort of insult when they used the idea for Agent Morgan.
His buddy Atlas is someone I find to be of the nagging variety and a bit by the book. But considering he's an AI that's only a head who tends to stay connected to something called Central Cortex. Its easy to see why he is the way he is. But I can only imagine by the time things are over with, he'll be thinking differently. I am curious though, for the worlds The Ascendancy consider too dangerous or unfit to annex for whatever reason. Do they just leave them alone or do something that would prove fatal to those worlds? Like the Dino, ChinAmerica, and the Fungus ones as they are obviously vastly different to what they seem to go for. The Traveling Refinery was also something I found to be pretty neat in this story. Something that Jeffrey and Fredrick likely had fun in coming up with while creating this.
I enjoyed the art and colors found through out this book courtesy of Christoper Jones and Zac Atkinson. Never had any trouble telling anyone apart. And the smugness of the lead female task force after Agent Morgan was shown really well in a way that also left me strongly disliking her. Which has me wondering just what sort of nasty fate will be in store for her when the time comes. As for the lettering, I think it only really shines when its the Lizard men's only real moment of speech. Though I'm unclear of who it was that did that aspect since there was two letterers on it. Though I will admit that keeping Atlas' speech bubble a bit separate to help establish when who is talking between Atlas and Morgan was a good touch on their end.
I found this to be fairly action packed that helped move the story along with no slow points to it. I also feel that this did not fail in its starting point and likely will be a favorite for those that tend to enjoy stories with parallel world themes. The ending certainly shows that Agent Morgan's troubles are only just beginning. The final fate for one innocent certainly has me curious on what exactly happened with him. And if he survives, he'll hopefully think about the consequences before acting. So be sure to grab this when it comes out on October 8th!
Editor's Note: To check out this title, along with other FutureDude titles. Head here!
FutureDude Entertainment
Story: Jeffrey Morris and Fredrick Haugen
Writers: Jeffrey Morris and Fredrick Haugen
Penciler and Inker: Christopher Jones
Colorist: Zac Atkinson
Lettering: Cortland Bechtell and Jordain Cheng-Kinnander
Reviewer: Rob Wrecks
Summary: Take a thrilling ride across the Multiverse with Agent Nick Morgan, a super-soldier gone rogue, as he fights to prevent the evil Ascendancy from enslaving alternate Earths! For over 40 years, the Ascendancy has pillaged other worlds—now its sights are set on us!
Along the way, Nick meets his doppelgänger from our Earth, Nicholas—a lazy gamer/geek. Together they must fight amid parallel realities, including industrial dystopias, foreboding ice worlds, and a continent where dinosaurs have evolved into humanoid warriors.
Review: When you think about it, every comic you read such as X-Men, Superman, Brimstone, or various others is all essentially parallel worlds with some differences here and there. But rarely do you see a comic centered solely on the idea of parallel worlds itself. Until recently that is thanks to Jeffrey Morris and Fredrick Haugen of FutureDude. And what a fantastic start they are off too with this comic. The idea of parallel worlds is something of a concept I honestly love, and is something that actually helps me somewhat to enjoy whatever changes that get made for any comic that gets adapted to a movie. Keyword there being 'somewhat' folks. And if you just happen to ask a friend of mine, this particular love of mine is why I wound up with the awesome nickname of 'Sci-Fi' back in High School. The cover by Dylan Hansen is something I honestly like a lot. As he awesomely managed to bring to life a lizard man on a dinosaur chasing after a futuristic person. Not often you see that sort of thing and Dylan did it really well. Also serving as something of a nice little teaser for what you are likely to be in store for.
At pretty much around the beginning of this comic, a lesson is served well in why a country should not have one type of super power in their hands. Since then its a slippery slope to bad things happening. Such as taking over other parallel worlds. As sooner or later, it will come back to bite them in the butt in some way. And I'm getting the feeling that that is exactly what we will be seeing as this comic goes on. The first occasion with Warren Cartwright we see in this title is something I found to be a little amusing due to what he doesn't see as crazy. And once folks have read this, you'll likely see why I found it a bit amusing. Or you might think I'm a bit nuts for doing so. Agent Morgan (Who I am to believe is our main leading man of this here comic) has a piece of technology I certainly wouldn't mind having! Though I wonder if you could adapt it for other parts of clothing? I do know one thing, the piece of tech he has would be more than likely enough to put heavy Religious types up in arms over it. But I doubt Jeffrey and Fredrick were going for any sort of insult when they used the idea for Agent Morgan.
His buddy Atlas is someone I find to be of the nagging variety and a bit by the book. But considering he's an AI that's only a head who tends to stay connected to something called Central Cortex. Its easy to see why he is the way he is. But I can only imagine by the time things are over with, he'll be thinking differently. I am curious though, for the worlds The Ascendancy consider too dangerous or unfit to annex for whatever reason. Do they just leave them alone or do something that would prove fatal to those worlds? Like the Dino, ChinAmerica, and the Fungus ones as they are obviously vastly different to what they seem to go for. The Traveling Refinery was also something I found to be pretty neat in this story. Something that Jeffrey and Fredrick likely had fun in coming up with while creating this.
I enjoyed the art and colors found through out this book courtesy of Christoper Jones and Zac Atkinson. Never had any trouble telling anyone apart. And the smugness of the lead female task force after Agent Morgan was shown really well in a way that also left me strongly disliking her. Which has me wondering just what sort of nasty fate will be in store for her when the time comes. As for the lettering, I think it only really shines when its the Lizard men's only real moment of speech. Though I'm unclear of who it was that did that aspect since there was two letterers on it. Though I will admit that keeping Atlas' speech bubble a bit separate to help establish when who is talking between Atlas and Morgan was a good touch on their end.
I found this to be fairly action packed that helped move the story along with no slow points to it. I also feel that this did not fail in its starting point and likely will be a favorite for those that tend to enjoy stories with parallel world themes. The ending certainly shows that Agent Morgan's troubles are only just beginning. The final fate for one innocent certainly has me curious on what exactly happened with him. And if he survives, he'll hopefully think about the consequences before acting. So be sure to grab this when it comes out on October 8th!
Editor's Note: To check out this title, along with other FutureDude titles. Head here!