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Onyx
From deepest space comes the cyborg warrior Onyx but has she come to Earth in its time of dire need to save it or to end it? A star-born knight for a new generation takes flight here!"
112 pages, Paperback
First published January 26, 2016
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January 21, 2024
This is very rushed. Nothing in this story is explained or filled in for you to get much of a sense of anything be it what’s going on or who these characters are as people. Lots of the plot relies on you understanding stuff that is never explained. The reader can mostly put it together due to the derivative nature of the work, but you shouldn’t have to.
August 29, 2020
This feels like a distillation of some of the worst 90's comics tropes, which makes it all the more surprising that it was released in 2016.
A Silver Surfer analog comes to Earth to fight a sentient virus that eats planet's cores, and determine whether or not to kill the humans as well. Military forces get involved, with the usual secret missions and xenophobic attitudes, and everyone eventually gets in a big fight, with a psychic becoming the key to everything. A lot of the story feels like excuses for fight scenes, and the characters, while drawn well enough to be distinguished in the panel aren't written well enough to make them distinctive (with the exception of the psychic Loner). The art is pretty good on review, but it made no impression during the initial read; the genericness of the plot and characters and conflict overwhelmed it. And there's a pretty abrupt shift in one section of the story, either a gaping plot hole or pages missing, I honestly couldn't tell.
It's not a terrible story/collection, but there's nothing here that isn't done much better in many other places. It feels like an off-brand Aliens vs Predator in a lot of ways, and the decent art and color work aren't enough to pick up the slack.
A Silver Surfer analog comes to Earth to fight a sentient virus that eats planet's cores, and determine whether or not to kill the humans as well. Military forces get involved, with the usual secret missions and xenophobic attitudes, and everyone eventually gets in a big fight, with a psychic becoming the key to everything. A lot of the story feels like excuses for fight scenes, and the characters, while drawn well enough to be distinguished in the panel aren't written well enough to make them distinctive (with the exception of the psychic Loner). The art is pretty good on review, but it made no impression during the initial read; the genericness of the plot and characters and conflict overwhelmed it. And there's a pretty abrupt shift in one section of the story, either a gaping plot hole or pages missing, I honestly couldn't tell.
It's not a terrible story/collection, but there's nothing here that isn't done much better in many other places. It feels like an off-brand Aliens vs Predator in a lot of ways, and the decent art and color work aren't enough to pick up the slack.
February 11, 2021
Inspired by the classic Marvel Comics series Rom: Spaceknight, writer Chris Ryall's story Onyx follows a familiar path.
Earth is dealing with a crisis of overpopulation, food is harder to come by and cities grow up into the sky and far down into the surface. But that all takes a back seat when what is thought to be a meteor crashes to earth.
But instead of a meteor, it's a deadly spore that will infect the planet and kill everything on it.
But arriving on Earth to battle the spore is Onyx, an alien armored in a powerful suit that can see those that have been infected and kill them. But will she be able to do so before its too late?
The story is decent and the art is excellent. But with it being originally published as a four issue miniseries, there's not much time for character development. It's mostly all hour sci-fi/horror war as soldiers team up with Onyx to fight for the literal soul of the planet.
It makes for a good read, but unlike it's inspiration series, there's not quite enough here to fully invest in the hopes for a follow up series.
Earth is dealing with a crisis of overpopulation, food is harder to come by and cities grow up into the sky and far down into the surface. But that all takes a back seat when what is thought to be a meteor crashes to earth.
But instead of a meteor, it's a deadly spore that will infect the planet and kill everything on it.
But arriving on Earth to battle the spore is Onyx, an alien armored in a powerful suit that can see those that have been infected and kill them. But will she be able to do so before its too late?
The story is decent and the art is excellent. But with it being originally published as a four issue miniseries, there's not much time for character development. It's mostly all hour sci-fi/horror war as soldiers team up with Onyx to fight for the literal soul of the planet.
It makes for a good read, but unlike it's inspiration series, there's not quite enough here to fully invest in the hopes for a follow up series.
January 29, 2018
onyx tells the story of an interstellar traveler who comes to earth chasing an alien spore that has destroyed countless other planets over the years. it was a good story, though I felt that the concept of the earth could have been expanded a little more, there are deep underground areas connecting cites that are used to power the earth. why do these exist? what is their purpose? was there some sort of cataclysmic event that triggered it? those are the kinds of questions running through my mind after reading this.
April 13, 2024
This read like a 90s comic where the mashup of a lot of ideas like let’s get the military crew from Aliens and the super sentai like superhero and do some really nasty alien monsters. It wasn’t bad. It was just kind of bland and the art not atrocious. Wasn’t that interesting to look atat
September 26, 2017
Celkem hloupé, ale ne úplně blbé a docela zábavné.
April 2, 2016
With roots in that sort of ’80s military science fiction action set, “Onyx” bursts on the scene with plenty of pyrotechnics, crazy monsters, rough heroes, and world-ending stakes. In 100 pages, creators Chris Ryall and Gabriel Rodriguez throw everything they can at the page, and the whole thing comes off as sort of . . . a mess.
There’s a lot of recognizable elements throughout “Onyx.” You have this group of secret military commandoes (a la Predator or Aliens), an insidious parasitic infection (flashes of The Thing), and plenty of heavy artillery. You even have the big bad saying he won’t get distracted and make the mistake of monologuing — which has probably become an even bigger clichŽ than a bad guy actually launching into a monologue. If it showed up in some old ’80s sci-fi action movie, there’s a good chance that writer/IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall and artist Gabriel Rodriguez threw it into their book. Unfortunately, they seemed so concerned with making something that looked cool that they sort of forgot to do anything with the characters, and “Onyx” ends up a floundering, sputtering, and worst of all, boring book.
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There’s a lot of recognizable elements throughout “Onyx.” You have this group of secret military commandoes (a la Predator or Aliens), an insidious parasitic infection (flashes of The Thing), and plenty of heavy artillery. You even have the big bad saying he won’t get distracted and make the mistake of monologuing — which has probably become an even bigger clichŽ than a bad guy actually launching into a monologue. If it showed up in some old ’80s sci-fi action movie, there’s a good chance that writer/IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall and artist Gabriel Rodriguez threw it into their book. Unfortunately, they seemed so concerned with making something that looked cool that they sort of forgot to do anything with the characters, and “Onyx” ends up a floundering, sputtering, and worst of all, boring book.
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