Artifacts Volume 6

Artifacts #6

by Ron Marz, Stjepan Šejić (Illustrations)

Tom Judge has known the world around him is not the world that should exist. He also knows that Darkness bearer Jackie Estacado is responsible for perverting the universe. Tom is determined to confront Jackie to set things right, but first he will need Sara, bearer of the Witchblade, to back him up. Guest starring The Magdalena. Collects Artifacts #24-28.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Urban Fantasy

160 pages, Paperback

First published July 23, 2013

About the author

Marz is well known for his work on Silver Surfer and Green Lantern, as well as the Marvel vs DC crossover and Batman/Aliens. He also worked on the CrossGen Comics series Scion, Mystic, Sojourn, and The Path. At Dark Horse Comics he created Samurai: Heaven and Earth and various Star Wars comics. He has also done work for Devil’s Due Publishing’s Aftermath line, namely Blade of Kumori. In 1995, he had a brief run on XO-Manowar, for Valiant Comics.

Marz’s more recent works includes a number of Top Cow books including Witchblade and a Cyberforce relaunch. For DC Comics, he has written Ion, a 12 part comic book miniseries that followed the Kyle Rayner character after the One Year Later event, and Tales of the Sinistro Corps Presents: Parallax and Tales of the Sinestro Corps Presents: Ion, two one-shot tie-ins to the Green Lantern crossover, The Sinestro Corps War.

His current creator owned projects include “Dragon Prince” (Top Cow) and “Samurai : Heaven and Earth” (Dark Horse).

Photo by Luigi Novi.

Reviews

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

The artwork gets outright clumsy half-way through with unnatural poses or just plain incomprehensible ones. The story follows along.

Dani and Finch begin a romantic relationship (some details are shown), but their joy is interrupted by an attack on the Angelus citadel that leaves most of the host dead.

Tom Judge gatheres a group of artifact wielders to fight Jackie who has altered the universe. The battle reaches a stalemate, so Tom goes after other wielders. He begins with the Glacier Stone, but finds the owner dead and a demon who has stolen it.

[Nicholas Driscoll · Rating 2 out of 5]

So so continuation. I was so jet lagged it was really hard to follow though so maybe it’s better than I comprehended.

[Álvar García · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5. Pierde totalmente el rumbo al final pero el dibujo de Kalman Andrasofszky es muy bueno.

[Keith Irwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

More stuff with the artifact holders dealing with the fact that they're in a new universe and trying to change things back. Despite the description here, Šejić only illustrates the first story in this collection. He disappears halfway through a two-part story. And really, that's a substantial letdown. The other artists are fine, but their style is much more typical-comic-booky and it just doesn't carry the same weight. The story-telling in this volume also abandons the more character-driven style of the past two volumes to have more action and arguments and things. It's not terrible, but it definitely abandoned all the momentum it had. The best bit is the one-off where Tilly goes to Hell to bring back Tom which was an interesting little origin story thing. On the whole, though, a definite disappointment from the 4th and 5th volumes, although not back down to the lows of the first three volumes.