Space Bastards #1
Humanoids 2021
Written by Eric Peterson & Joe Aubrey
Illustrated by Darick Robertson
Coloured by Diego Rodriguez
Lettered by Simon Bowland
The IPS! ONGOING SERIES.
In the future, unemployment and job dissatisfaction are sky-high. When you've got nothing left to lose, you join the Intergalactic Postal Service (IPS). Its postal fees are steep—and they go only to whomever ultimately fulfills the delivery, making every run a comically violent free-for-all between the most ruthless mercenaries in the cosmos! The interplanetary ensemble cast of Space Bastards, under the volatile leadership of Postmaster General Roy Sharpton, are constantly at each other's throats trying to settle scores and earn big money. But when a rival corporation's teleportation technology threatens to make their role in the galaxy obsolete, the Bastards must work together to preserve a job they've come to love.
Humanoids have been putting out some absolutely stellar titles, before Covid naturally, so with Space Bastards it looks like they are coming back in full force with some of today’s hottest creators unleashing some insane storytelling. Now that we have outlets like Humanoids and no Comics Code Authority so the language can be as crass and harsh as they want it to be or feeling like i’m watching some British programming lol.
I am a fan of the way that this is being told. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold and how the reader learns information is fantastic to see. The character development that we see is amazing and you have to read this to see and understand why that is. We meet a myriad of characters and some are destined to play huge roles and others are literally throwaways but it doesn’t who it is because they all feel like people. The pacing here is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing the story, the characters and this universe they inhabit it sets up this crazy ride that you are going to want to take.
The way that this is structured is extremely well done and how the layers within the story are emerging are utterly fantastic! The way everything manages to work together to create the story’s ebb & flow is beautifully done. I love this, the way that we see this unfold and how its flow really allows the reader to really feel a part of the transformation is pretty damn spectacular.
The interiors here are mindbogglingly brilliantly rendered. I mean this is why we love, or at I love, Darick’s work. The linework is as perfect as perfect can be and with the varying weights and techniques that he employs to bring out this level and quality of attention to detail blows me away. It’s as if he just gets better and better and I wasn’t way that was even humanly possible. The creativity and imagination we see in the different species and designs of ships and cities is sensational. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a true masters eye for storytelling. Oh I am so loving the choices being made with the colours here. Diego’s own creativity and imagination that we see in this shines bright like a sunbeam through a diamond. How we see the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is expertly rendered.
This is the kind of crass, brash and over-the-top foul mouthed kind of story that simply cannot be resisted. I don’t care who you are this is unbridled fun through violence and cussing and you will enjoy every single moment of it!
About the Creator
Steven Leitman
Just me talking about the comics I enjoy reading, ones that you might not know exist and spotlighting the indie creators that excite me.
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