Miami Vice: Remix

by Joe Casey, Jim Mahfood (Artist)

"An odd and impressive upgrade from network tame to HBO wild. Joe Casey, Jim Mahfood and Justin Stewart each bring a distinct creative spirit to this iconic and trend-setting team of undercover cops." - Newsarama

Iconoclastic creators Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood turn the world of Miami Vice on its head in a way that's got to be seen to be believed! Detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs are taking on crime in a city rampant with danger at every turn! An '80s classic, that Paste Magazine says is, “A genuinely distinct interpretation of the source material...” is now reimagined for a bold, new audience!

"Miami Remix by Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood is anything but a dull TV show comic. It's an audacious tale on tropes and icons, and a gem in the Lion Forge line-up." - Comics Beat

"As a fan of the original show, Miami Vice Remix gets my approval." - Brutal Gamer

"Well written, with insane illustrations and colors. If you enjoyed the hit television series in the eighties, then you will surely enjoy revisiting these classic characters." - Geek Sushi

"Original enough in narrative and visuals that it should appeal to anyone that likes weird and/or fun comics." - Comics Alliance

Genres: Comics

148 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2015

About the author

Librarian note: there is more than one author with this name

Joe Casey is an American comic book writer. He has worked on titles such as Wildcats 3.0, Uncanny X-Men, The Intimates, Adventures of Superman, and G.I. Joe: America's Elite among others. As part of the comics creator group Man of Action Studios, Casey is one of the creators of the animated series Ben 10.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Casey

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 1 out of 5]

Awful, I couldn't even get through it. Jim Mahfood's art ruined this book for me, but the final straw was the lettering. It looked like a kindergartener lettered the book.

[Wayne McCoy · Rating 2 out of 5]

'Miami Vice: Remix' brings Crockett and Tubbs back to the streets of Miami at the height of the 1980s again (I think). The art and story are chaotic and messy. I couldn't decide whether I liked it or not, but it's definitely a full on action story.

There is a new drug on the streets of Miami, and it's side effects are unreal. Crockett and Tubbs find themselves fighting something they've never seen before. Meanwhile, their boss Castillo has problems of his own: his daughter Cara has gone missing and he wants Crockett and Tubbs to find her. Can they keep themselves from getting beat up and landing in the hospital? Can they solve both cases and still keep their undercover identities secret? Can Elvis forgive Crockett for not spending quality time with him?

It's a full charge story, and the art is chaotic to match. Unfortunately, this includes the lettering, so it was difficult to read at times, much less follow the action. But, at the same time, the art is charged with a sort of frenetic pace that matches the breakneck story. I'm calling it a two star for an interesting attempt that failed to completely win me over.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Diamond Book Distributors, IDW Publishing, Lion Forge and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

[Kit · Rating 4 out of 5]

I gotta say upfront, I live for new work from Mahfood. I love things with action, guns, buddy cops, and wild chases, and Miami Vice has no shortage of these. Add to this the exuberant and expressive art of Mahfood in living color by Stewart and the vitality in the book does more than enough to make up for the lack of a TV screen.

My only complaint is the difficulty in reading Mahfood's lettering. Perhaps it was just my copy, but I was having a little trouble seeing some of it clearly, even if I think it was the most logical and stylish choice.

Desperately wanting Disco Destroyer to be a thing. People be crazy not to make his show.

[Ron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Crockett and Tubbs are back undercover on the Miami streets minus the '80's music but with a very strange art team. The drug lords are still fighting it out when a new designer drug gets released and roars across the city. Plenty of fighting, gun play, and psychedelic strangeness that will have you straining your eyes to take it all in.

[Eric · Rating 3 out of 5]

Joe Casey's writing complimented Jim Mahfoods amazing stylized art, loved the story its just a fun turn off your brain adrenaline action story. Loved the art and colors.

[Alex Sarll]

"Sonny Burnett and Rico Cooper are back on the streets!! Undercover brothers from different mothers!" I never saw the film, or the TV show. I can believe it might have had a cop with a pet alligator, but I'm fairly sure the leads' boss wasn't secretly a killer ronin, and I'm damn near certain they never had to deal with a zombie plague, bionic perps or a voodoo apocalypse. Joe Casey and Jim Mahfood both have past form in creating crazy pop comics; put them together and apparently that's squared. In particular, I'm not sure I've ever read anything quite so outlandish and unrestrained from Mahfood; he's much more angular, less curvy, but in a weird way his work here reminds me of Brendan McCarthy, if you replaced McCarthy's classic psychedelic influences with punk scratchiness and eighties style-mag width. I'd never heard of this project until I saw the ARC offered for nowt on Netgalley, and I'm not really sure why this truly bizarre comic exists, but I'm glad it does.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Crockett and Tubbs. And zombies?

This was an exciting 100 mph ride through downtown Miami.

And the art is perfect for all the weird crap that is going on in the book.

I don’t really want to spoil the story, so I’ll just say it had me laughing out loud several times, and I was pretty glued to the story from beginning to end.

Though some of the lettering was a little hard to read.

Recommended if you’d like action and want to see Crockett and Tubbs give it another go.

Thanks to NetGalley and Lion Forge for a copy in return for an honest review.

[Art · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received an electronic ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

To be honest, I didn't care for it. Although it had some problems the story line was interesting enough, but I found the artwork to jarring for me and the lettering was extremely difficult for me to read. There was one sub-plot that I really didn't see the point of.

There was a lot of action and adventure here, not to mention a bit of voodoo. Maybe others will care for it more than I did, but I doubt that I will read the next volume in the series.