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Epoch #1
THE GREATEST TOURNAMENT THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEGINS ANEW! Top Cow Productions and Heroes and Villains Entertainment proudly present a dark and intensely kinetic tale from writer KEVIN McCARTHY (Red Sonja, The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist) and newcomer PAOLO PANTALENA (What If?: House of M, War of Darkhawk). Jonah Bishop is an NYPD detective assigned to a mysterious murder case that threatens to rip the reality he knows and plunge him into the shadow world of his heritage--the Supernatural. Jonah's quest will drop him deep in the middle of a conspiracy that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of society.
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First published October 2, 2012
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December 13, 2012
Urban fantasy, with quite a lot of effort thrown into it.
Unfortunately, setting wise it will never match the World of Darkness in awesomeness (or even WitchCraft)but that is a problem that deeply affects me. The perils of being a RPer. This story would have been better in a longer format, but I think that it really wasn't the writer's option. I did like the final twist (although it ended up being disconnected from the rest of the clues that were dropped throughout the book -- I can understand why a certain woman helped the "Only at the end revealed" baddie -- but why the other woman? And why the blue fire demon?
Yeah, left too many open questions for me to give this 4 stars. The story itself tended to bend back and forth as plot demanded, and it resulted being a little too contrived.
A few more niggles\kudos:
- Lillith was awesome. I wanted more of Lillith.
- Rasputin turns into a werewolf with mystical hotpants. Not sure if that's the most awesome or lamest thing ever.
- A ninjitsu-fighting half-snake woman. See above.
- An Aztec vampire who fought off the conquistadores -- and who's a master of capoera. I'd say "I have a few brazilian friends who'd like a word with you", but he might have learned it later, true. The problem I had with each of these creatures having a specific style of combat (ninjitsu snake! Gracie Jiu-jitsu demon! Capoeira vampire!) is that they're all as old as sin -- and personally I'd expect them to pick up quite a lot of fighting styles throughout the ages and turn out more MMA than Street Fighter II.
- The artist has a limited range of faces, especially in women. BUT, boy oh boy, do I love his men. I don't care he makes men look all the same because they all look RAWR. Bow Chika Chika BOWOW! And I did like the art overall.
Unfortunately, setting wise it will never match the World of Darkness in awesomeness (or even WitchCraft)but that is a problem that deeply affects me. The perils of being a RPer. This story would have been better in a longer format, but I think that it really wasn't the writer's option. I did like the final twist (although it ended up being disconnected from the rest of the clues that were dropped throughout the book -- I can understand why a certain woman helped the "Only at the end revealed" baddie -- but why the other woman? And why the blue fire demon?
Yeah, left too many open questions for me to give this 4 stars. The story itself tended to bend back and forth as plot demanded, and it resulted being a little too contrived.
A few more niggles\kudos:
- Lillith was awesome. I wanted more of Lillith.
- Rasputin turns into a werewolf with mystical hotpants. Not sure if that's the most awesome or lamest thing ever.
- A ninjitsu-fighting half-snake woman. See above.
- An Aztec vampire who fought off the conquistadores -- and who's a master of capoera. I'd say "I have a few brazilian friends who'd like a word with you", but he might have learned it later, true. The problem I had with each of these creatures having a specific style of combat (ninjitsu snake! Gracie Jiu-jitsu demon! Capoeira vampire!) is that they're all as old as sin -- and personally I'd expect them to pick up quite a lot of fighting styles throughout the ages and turn out more MMA than Street Fighter II.
- The artist has a limited range of faces, especially in women. BUT, boy oh boy, do I love his men. I don't care he makes men look all the same because they all look RAWR. Bow Chika Chika BOWOW! And I did like the art overall.
December 26, 2018
This is the second time I attempt to read Epoch, while the concept is amazing the execution left a lot to desire. I encountered endless thought bubbles that pretty much were there just to explain step by step something that wasn’t necessary, give the reader some credit would you? Show us a character suffering, don’t just use a bubble to explain that they are. Overall I do believe it has potential, the artwork was great and the characters were interesting, I just wished they didn’t rush through the story and as a fan of Mortal Kombat (which people kept telling me this was similar to), I was expecting incredible battle scenes, like come on, this are supernatural beings we are talking about, show us some moves! we only get one good shot and that's about it. I just wished they showed more battle scenes amongst the species instead of the 2-3 we got, that would’ve made it so much better.
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