From ROBERT KIRKMAN's Skybound imprint, comes a sci-fi story like you've never seen before! Dr. Luke Taylor's perfect life comes to a dramatic halt when an identical, bloodied version of himself arrives at his doorstep with news that he is one of many clones... and they're all after his pregnant wife and their unborn child!
Juan Jose Ryp's art on this book is almost enough to get me to buy it. Ryp is one of those artist on the cusp of greatness. He needs a high-profile book to be firmly in fans' consciousness. His style reminds of me of Rafael Grampa's dynamic and visceral visuals, although Ryps' is less stylized and with more meat and sinew. I imagine that if Ryp was on X-Men or Thor with Jason Aaron, he would just kill it art-wise.
David Shulner's story is actually interesting and this is a great first issue to launch his concept. Imagine if you were someone's clone and you are not the only clone and one of those doppelgangers is hunting you. That is the main concept. It raises a lot of questions that a reader would want answered soon, like;
"Why is my clone hunting me and the other clones?" "If I'm not the original, then who is?" "Why did my unborn child maturing at a relatively accelerated rate?"
Provoking questions that could be answered in the succeedng issues.
Okay I hated this, there's no way around it. They really did do the whole I hate my dad for abandoning me, so I'm not going to relate to my pregnant wife thing? The clones are the least of his worries with his bad attitude. Definitely not for me.