Eponymous #1

Eponymous #1

by Mike Garley, Martin Simmonds (artist), Mike Stock (letterer)

The age of superheroes is over. All are long since dead or forgotten, allowing the world to return to its preconceived idea of normality. But when a massacre on a global scale is predicted at the hands of Casey – the first super-powered-individual the world has seen for nearly twenty years – the decision is taken to find her and to kill her, before it’s too late. Dragged into a deadly game of cat and mouse, Casey must fight to unravel the mysteries of her past, fight to avoid her predicted role in the nightmarish version of the future – and fight just to stay alive.

The TPB contains the first, six, ten-page stories:

0. Prelude
1. Leap of Faith
2. Secrets and Exposition
3. Gridlock
4. A History of Conflict
5. Perspective

Genres: Science Fiction Fantasy

68 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2013

About the author

Mike Garley is a writer of comics, games, screenplays and other such cool stuff. Mike wrote beActive Media’s EMMY nominated comic series; Collider, as well as Wallace and Gromit, Adventure Time, Eponymous, The Kill Screen, and is also the editor of the Dead Roots comic anthology.

Reviews

[Marthese Formosa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Liked the start of this story very much and hoping to read more. The arts is gorgeous and apart from flashbacks all in colour, which look like water colours. It was very realistic in depicting humans, it really was like watching photographs.

The story is very original and new. The superheros as being scary does sound a bit like X-men and there is mention on WW2, but it goes about a different route.

I was angry at the authorities when reading this. It is always hard decisions but your sense of justice will be ticked by this comic.