Image Comics 2015
Created & Written by Mark Millar
Created & Illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque
Coloured by Dave McCaig
Lettered & Designed by Nate Piekos of Blambot
Bittersweet is how i’m feeling right now. The last issue of the run and ya know i’ve gotten attached to Huck in a way that I never thought would happen. He really is one of the absolute best new characters to be introduced in comics in I don’t know how long. While Mark has one of the most impressive resumes around I think this is what i’m forever going to be reminded of when I see his name. That is how much of an impression this has left on me.
From the get go Huck hasn’t been your average person and throughout this story i’ve been wondering and almost worried that he’d come out of it a changed man. So While I won’t tell you if he has been I will say that I have not only the utmost respect for Mark with this but a fervent hope that this won’t be the last we see of Huck and the amazing people of his home town.
Normally when characters like the A.I.’s who are so completely like everyday people created by Professor Orlov I want to know more about the science and technology used in creating them. Here I’m easily able to suspend disbelief and let things play out as they do. I mean yeah i’d love to know how he managed to do what he did or exactly how Huck and his mother Anna are able to do what they do but it’s not really important.
All we need to know is that they have the technology to do it and people like them exist. Albeit it seems that they are pretty unique in the world and that’s okay. All because of how this whole journey for Huck has played out has been so incredibly done that all else is immaterial. I do like that pretty everything we see can be explored again at a later date meaning should they ever decide to revisit there’s enough here to do so.
Rafael and Dave do some stunning work on the interiors here. I love the emotion we get from the characters, the action, the backgrounds all of it. Rafael really knows how to make a story flow, his eye for pages and panels to focus on key moments really stands out here. Oh an yeah I want that Gas Station shirt Huck wears.
One of the utmost entertaining, engaging and thought provoking series and another of my best limited series for 2016 nominations.