BOOM! Studios
Writer: Justin Jordan
Artist: Ariela Kristantina
Colourist: Ben Wilsonham
Price: $3.99
Release date: April 8, 2015

Writer Justin Jordan is in love with clever. He likes his high concept shenanigans and he wants you to like them as well. He deploys his ability to pace his story with a runaway coronary pulse beat and keep the reader nailed to the narrative, until the reader gets off the hook at the ‘to be continued’ sign. A sign that arrives too soon but leaves the strong and lasting desire for more of the same.

In a nutshell then, a crack shot assassin is using a special kind of rifle that can bend bullets through time to take out good operatives.  In this case, Ms Branch and her buddy’s spy fi organisation, commencing with a spectacular kill of an important bod at a very public gathering.

I get the sense Deep State is a cross between cult TV classics Fringe and Warehouse 13 with a bit Scully and Mulder, thrown into the mix. Whatever, Jordan is an interesting writer and deserves to be kept an eye on for the future.

Artist Kristantina puts in a sterling effort and keeps the storytelling and pacing tight with rough-hewn inking, only occasionally lapsing into manga territory with a badly drawn face or two. The colour by Wilsonham is just to die for, get resurrected and kick the bucket again with a post-coital ‘I had a good time baby’ cigarette and mandatory drool demonstrating that the earth did move for you. You get the picture?

To you dear reader I say this: Go out and buy every issue of this series. If you can’t get them, go to BOOM! Studios and threaten the staff there with sex with a marsupial or ungulate if they do not reprint or run a collected edition of this book. Tell them CyberxAl sent you.

REVIEWED BY: CybexAl
REVIEWS EDITOR: Stephen Hooker