Publisher: BOOM
Writer: Frank J Barbiere
Artist: Christopher Peterson
Colourist: Marissa Louise
Editor: Eric Harburn
Release date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

 

In Broken World #3 it’s Biblical in every sense of the word, The End Of Days has well and truly arrived. Elena and Grif plan to take one of the few remaining rockets off the planet before the curtain descends and the population of Earth joins the choir invisible.

For new readers a brief road map for the two preceding issues would have been welcome but, if like me, you are prepared to tough it out Broken World #3 is not without rewards.

Frank J Barbiere takes the clichéd theme of the slow but inevitable apocalypse and steers it into something engaging and page turning. Broken World #3 makes the sad point – even with the impending doom – the population of earth will fight amongst itself to the very death to live.

Every time I see this theme, I’m the one jumping up and saying surely, surely we should be untied against the common foe, Mr. Death that is. And, no doubt, in reality, as in the cinema, I would be shouted down and forcibly removed and served my time and been rehabilitated……..Anyway, moving on……..

The artwork, from Christopher Peterson works, mainly due to its uncluttered nature and not artwork masquerading on the page solely to serve itself but to propel the narrative forward too. Frankly, anything else would have overwhelmed Broken World #3 and Peterson is clearing in the game of producing a comic book as a team effort. No bad thing either.

The only niggle is the absence of that catch-up page, but that small beer in the scheme of Broken World #3. And be prepared to pay attention too, the plot progresses mostly through the dialogue. And any comic book determined to flex the grey matter gets bonus points from me.

 

Reviewer: Steve Hooker