Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Writer: Kurtis Wiebe
Artist: Mindy Lee
Colourist: Leonardo Oler
Release Date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

Bounty #1 is a gender-reversed Robin Hood tale for the sci-fi generation. Under the codename The Gadflies, sisters Nina and Georgie steal money from evil corporations (as opposed to those nice corporations who treat their staff well and give away all their profits to charity, right?) and give large chunks of it away to the poor.

Inevitably in Bounty #1 this puts a huge price on their heads and it’s not long before someone wants to claim it. Bounty #1 opens with the sisters already in the hands of some nasty bounty hunters who are prepared to do all sorts of unspeakable things to them to get them to reveal the codes to their secret accounts. But fear not, faithful reader, because with one bound they are free to carry on their freebooting altruistic ways. Well, it wouldn’t be much of a series if they were captured in issue #1 now would it?

Bounty #1 has all the whistles and bells you would expect from this sort of tale and, although it shows promise and is strong on action, a little more time could have been spent getting to know our sassy sisters and their cohorts a little bit more. The set-up is good but whether it will have enough energy for the long haul remains to be seen.

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker