Red City

author: Daniel Corey

name: Wayne

average rating: 3.50

book published: 2014

rating: 3

read at: 2014/12/19

date added: 2014/12/19

shelves: graphic-novels

review:

'Red City' combines SF with noir/cop genre and does it quite well, unlike the hybrid science fiction/fantasy story I read that not long ago. It's got lots of familiar tropes that work pretty well.



Ex-Mars cop, Cal Talmage, is given a simple job to find a missing girl. Of course, if it were that simple, it would be a pretty short story, wouldn't it. Things go awry as Cal runs into old informants who seem to have agendas. Along the way, he gets framed for a murder, finds himself in the midst of a potential war between alien races, and meets up with an old partner who may have her own agenda. Can he find the girl and maybe stop an interstellar war?



The book has a good introduction by James Cotten of Dark Highway Films. The book works well as a kind of B-movie cop film. Think Red Heat meets Total Recall. I'm not sure why different alien races would inhabit the planets of our solar system, I'll go with it for the sake of the story. It's fun. The artist changes from issues 1 and 2 to issues 3 and 4. I prefer the artist in the first half and found the change mildly jarring. If I'd read it as individual issues, I likely wouldn't have noticed. Still, it was a fun read.



I was given a review copy of this graphic novel by Diamond Book Distributors, Image Comics and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.





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