EI8HT #1

EI8HT (single issues) #1

by Rafael Albuquerque, Mike Johnson

**From _American Vampire_'s Rafael Albuquerque!** Welcome to the Meld, an inhospitable dimension in time where Joshua, a chrononaut, finds himself trapped. With no memory or feedback from the team of scientists that sent him, he can't count on anything but his heart and a stranger's voice to guide him to his destiny. * From the artist of _American Vampire_! * Cowritten with Mike Johnson (_Supergirl_)! * Traverse the past, the present, the future . . . and welcome to the Meld!

Genres: Comics, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels

24 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 7, 2015

About the author

Born in 1981, in Porto Alegre, south of Brazil, Rafael Albuquerque begun his professional career working for advertising, producing illustrations for local companies. The comic book interest, however, started in 2002, when he decided to work exclusively for the publishing market.

Basically all of his portfolio was shown only at internet, and trough this media came his first comic book job. The Egyptian company AK Comics asked for some samples, and then he got his first gig overseas. Rafael´s colaboration (not only as artist, but sometimes as creator) was very important for the company.

In 2005, with the writer Felipe Ferreira, has created the owner creator graphic novel Crimeland (first called Rumble in la Rambla), published in 2007 by Image Comics.

For Boom! Studios has illustrated series like Savage Brothers (written by Andrew Cosby and Johanna Stokes), Pirate Tales (written by Chris Ward) and Jeremiah Harm (created by Keith Giffen and Alan Grant).

Rafael has also colaborate in antologies like Tales of Fear Agent (with Ivan Brandon) for Dark Horse Comics, Wonderlost (written by C.B. Cebulski) and the Eisner Award nominated 24Seven - vol2.

Nowdays Rafael is an exclusive artist from DC Comics, working in books like Blue Beetle (writtenby Keith Giffen, John Rogers and Matthew Struges), Robin (written by Chuck Dixon) , Stanger Advetures (written by Jim Starlin) and Superman/Batman (written by Michael Green and Mike Johnson).

Reviews

[Andy Hickman · Rating 4 out of 5]

EI8HT #1, Rafael Albuquerque, Mike Johnson
Fast paced intensive story. It's got several key elements that make for an enjoyable tale- time travel, dystopia, sci fi, medieval conflict, oh, and dinosaurs
#1- "You're about to make history."

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This seems like a promising sci-fi series, with the flexibility of the "Meld" allowing Rafael Albuquerque his heart's desire of having a setting in which he can include anything that his imagination can think up (and all our little-kid favorites: air ships, dinosaurs, desert nomad types, etc). I'm interested to see where it goes, especially to see if Albuquerque and Johnson can keep readers engaged, and not ridiculously confused, with the color-coded multiple timelines. I'm willing to give it a shot, because I'm a fan of Albuquerque's art, although I must admit that the main character Joshua is very reminiscent of Skinner Sweet ;)

[Steph Myers · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm not one for sci fi or superhero comics, so I thought I would stretch myself with this one. It was AWESOME! I guess I do like the whole time travel thing and all the paradoxes that lie therein (Dr Who fan). I enjoyed how the various time periods and seemingly separate storylines are colored differently, so the reader can distinguish if they just bounced back to the past or are in the Meld. Very fast-paced. I chewed through it in like an hour and now I want to get my hands on the next one. I hope the story and pace hold up.

[Wing Kee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review at end of arc

[Rick Presley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting concept. Not sure where it's going. May look into finishing the series. May not. We'll see.

[Alyssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good graphics. Creative storyline. There are a few jumps you just have to go with but it was good. Ends on a note that makes you want to know more.