REVIEW: The Tenth #1

Creator & Artist: Tony Daniel

Developer & Writer: Beau Smith

Inker: Kevin Conrad

Colors: Paul Mounts & Bongotone

Cover: Tony Daniel & Marlo Alquiza

Review: Art Bee

Please forgive us at The HCB; we have all had life issues that seemed to coincide and the best option was to take a bit of a vacation from writing reviews. Thank you all for your patience! You are all Rock Stars and we love ya!

Trying to figure out what to review from my boxes of comics was a bit hard, but The Tenth #1 jumped out at me. Thinking I had already reviewed it or another of the series, I searched the sites and found that I hadn’t. I then began kicking myself in the ass for not doing so before now. This series has a special place in my heart and I wish more had been done with the storyline and/or characters.

Warning! I will be spoiling this issue but the way the comic is done it won’t change your enjoyment. I have read this several times and each time the issue excites me.

Besides, some of the sweet details I will leave for you to discover.

The issue opens up with the escape of The Tenth from a secret facility of Darkklon Corp., which is owned, run, and founded by a creepy man, Rhazes Darkk.

The Tenth is the tenth experimental creature created by Darkk in efforts to transform the world into his twisted, unrealized utopia.

REVIEW: The Darkness #1/2

Credits: see below...

Review: Will Dubbeld

I was all in for the Image first wave, or at least most of it. It’s difficult to articulate how big a deal the schism, the coup, was when McFarlane and co. broke ranks with Marvel. These were the artists helming Spider-Man, the X-Men...

JIM LEE, FOR CHRISSAKES!!!

Needless to say, I eagerly swallowed my dosage of Spawn, Youngblood, Savage Dragon, and  WildC.A.T.s.

For one or two issues.

I rapidly discovered the talent behind the Image founders lay not in the writing as much as the art.

By a landslide.

With a heavy heart I largely abandoned Image due to some frankly bad plotting and scripts as many were flagship representations of what I grew to despise about ‘90s comicdom.

I’ve softened my stance a bit since then and will pick up the odd run of classic (“classic...”) Image books when the spirit moves.

Which brings us to The Darkness...

My main man and fellow HCB alum, Art Bee, is quite the Darkness aficionado and his enthusiasm prompted me to largely clean out the dollar box at my LCS of said title. Hopefully, I thought, there’s some gems to be gleaned from the stack of back issues. I’ve largely been a fan of Silvestri in the past so I optimistically dove in, starting with The Darkness 1/2.