The Lollipop Kids #2
Aftershock Comics 2018
Story by Adam & Aidan Glass
Written by Adam Glass
Illustrated by Diego Yapur
Coloured by DC Alonso
Lettered by Sal Cipriano
Nick knows he’s not hero, so he says thanks to the Lollipop Kids for all of the bad memories, and heads out of the park, back to his old, safe, boring life. But something follows Nick, a GREMLIN named EXPO. Nick almost kills Expo, but FRESNO stops him and explains that the Gremlin is on their side, not all monsters are evil. Fresno gives Nick one last chance to join their ranks and to fulfil his destiny, but Nick’s soiled pants tell him all he needs to know. Nick leaves again, but soon he stumbles upon something much worse than a gremlin—and this time NOBODY is coming to his rescue.
Wow just wow. I am so extremely impressed with this series already and mainly because the series gets explained through action and words. The saying goes “No rest for the wicked” and that’s true but there’s also no rest for the Lollipop Kids, yes try saying that without switching out Kids for Guild cause I almost wrote it down. There is something electric about this book that is somewhat difficult to explain but anyone who has read it will understand exactly what I mean. This kind of writing and the level at which we get it is just amazingly well done.
The way this is structured is fabulous I like that the fact this picks up where we left off and has that whole real-time feel to it is something that I appreciate. If you have been reading my reviews then you know I am a huge fan of Adam’s, and Aftershock, and this continues that admiration that I have as his dialogue throughout this book is bloody marvellous. It doesn’t matter if it’s a brief moment or an extended one the characters base personalities are established and just waiting to bloom like rose, on the grey Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels yeah and now that your rose….
Nick is an interesting contradiction in character study. I know with his mixed lineage and his Dyslexia he has a massive inferiority complex. This is seen as cowardice by some and even himself but he’s not had a proper opportunity to really prove himself otherwise. Out looking for his sister that’s an act of bravery all it’s own and that he’s been following the clues left behind well I have to say this young man is much more on his way to figuring out who he is then he realises. This is the level of characterisation that I was talking about.
There has to be an award for Diego and DC for their work here. I am gob-smacked by the level of talent I see here and the intricacy of the linework and how the varying weights are manipulated in such ways to really bring these faces to life, Life, life, let my creature live Life, life, it's life that you must give Fate, fate, through this storm and strife. DC’s work more so on the backgrounds where we see the trees and the mood lighting even more so when we see that show horse and carriage it’s jaw dropping work. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels shows off an elite eye for storytelling. Then the utilisation of the backgrounds as integral points in the storytelling is brilliantly done.
This is the kind of book that comes around once a generation for me it’s starting off on par if not higher than The New Teen Titans did back in the 80’s and when you can produce work to rival and surpass Wolfman & Perez well then you know your doing something right. This is the book that will eclipse your expectations of what comics can be.
Aftershock Comics 2018
Story by Adam & Aidan Glass
Written by Adam Glass
Illustrated by Diego Yapur
Coloured by DC Alonso
Lettered by Sal Cipriano
Nick knows he’s not hero, so he says thanks to the Lollipop Kids for all of the bad memories, and heads out of the park, back to his old, safe, boring life. But something follows Nick, a GREMLIN named EXPO. Nick almost kills Expo, but FRESNO stops him and explains that the Gremlin is on their side, not all monsters are evil. Fresno gives Nick one last chance to join their ranks and to fulfil his destiny, but Nick’s soiled pants tell him all he needs to know. Nick leaves again, but soon he stumbles upon something much worse than a gremlin—and this time NOBODY is coming to his rescue.
Wow just wow. I am so extremely impressed with this series already and mainly because the series gets explained through action and words. The saying goes “No rest for the wicked” and that’s true but there’s also no rest for the Lollipop Kids, yes try saying that without switching out Kids for Guild cause I almost wrote it down. There is something electric about this book that is somewhat difficult to explain but anyone who has read it will understand exactly what I mean. This kind of writing and the level at which we get it is just amazingly well done.
The way this is structured is fabulous I like that the fact this picks up where we left off and has that whole real-time feel to it is something that I appreciate. If you have been reading my reviews then you know I am a huge fan of Adam’s, and Aftershock, and this continues that admiration that I have as his dialogue throughout this book is bloody marvellous. It doesn’t matter if it’s a brief moment or an extended one the characters base personalities are established and just waiting to bloom like rose, on the grey Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels yeah and now that your rose….
Nick is an interesting contradiction in character study. I know with his mixed lineage and his Dyslexia he has a massive inferiority complex. This is seen as cowardice by some and even himself but he’s not had a proper opportunity to really prove himself otherwise. Out looking for his sister that’s an act of bravery all it’s own and that he’s been following the clues left behind well I have to say this young man is much more on his way to figuring out who he is then he realises. This is the level of characterisation that I was talking about.
There has to be an award for Diego and DC for their work here. I am gob-smacked by the level of talent I see here and the intricacy of the linework and how the varying weights are manipulated in such ways to really bring these faces to life, Life, life, let my creature live Life, life, it's life that you must give Fate, fate, through this storm and strife. DC’s work more so on the backgrounds where we see the trees and the mood lighting even more so when we see that show horse and carriage it’s jaw dropping work. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels shows off an elite eye for storytelling. Then the utilisation of the backgrounds as integral points in the storytelling is brilliantly done.
This is the kind of book that comes around once a generation for me it’s starting off on par if not higher than The New Teen Titans did back in the 80’s and when you can produce work to rival and surpass Wolfman & Perez well then you know your doing something right. This is the book that will eclipse your expectations of what comics can be.
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