Drifter, Vol. 4: Remains

Drifter #4

by Ivan Brandon, Nic Klein (Artist)

Ghost Town is destroyed. The planet Ouro is coming apart at the seams. But even with the world breaking around him, all Abram Pollux can think of is revenge on the man named Bell Emmerich.
IVAN BRANDON and NIC KLEIN are proud to present the final chapter in their brooding sci-fi epic. All mysteries will be solved. All questions answered. All scores settled.
Collects DRIFTER #15-19

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Graphic Novels Comics, Science Fiction

120 pages, Paperback

First published July 12, 2017

Reviews

[L. McCoy · Rating 4 out of 5]

SUPER FAST REVIEW:
Okay guys, this series was pretty great!
The storytelling is fantastic, the story is so good and often emotional. I found myself caring a lot about the characters by the end of this journey. Not to mention it’s very intense.
Unfortunately this volume had a problem I didn’t notice as much in previous volumes (it may have still been there but it wasn’t as noticeable): people sticking their fingers in a gun’s trigger guard with the barrel pointed at themselves when they’re handing someone a gun. As someone who’s into guns this is insanely irresponsible. Also, the ending is a little disappointing.
Overall this is still a great sci-fi western series and I definitely recommend it.

4/5

[Ming Wei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Drifter is a good title for these series, a man bascially drifting across a alien world, the ending to the entire is not what I expected, caught me off guard. This is the Wild West in Space, upon a new planet, this brilliant concept works fine, the desert shanty town know as Ghost town is destroyed, Chaos engulfs Abram Pollux mind as all he can think off is revenge against a character known as Bell. Excellent artwork, throughout the novel. No negatives. Fresh storyline that is taken in a new direction, and embedded with destruction & chaos. The story line never becomes boring, the story is easy to follow for the reader and flows at a good pace for you to understand the multiple themes running through the novel. Really enjoyed this volume, and all the volumes that went before it. A very good space novel. A bit different from the norm, the writers have show clear imagination throughout the series. Well Worth a read.

[Neon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Story wise it all finally made sense and I must of enjoyed it because I read all 4 volumes back to back in one go, that being said I feel it was the artwork that kept me going for most of it.

[Lukas Holmes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ended far too quickly. I wish they had given it 1-2 more issues (or heck, volumes) to really make that finale hit emotionally.

[Jordan Rock · Rating 5 out of 5]

(9/10)

This is really a review for the whole Drifter series (which this concludes). Really impressive stuff. The art, especially the colors, is almost always really fantastic (among some of the best comic art, in my opinion) The character and location design is awesome and the over all space-western setting is very fun. However, what really sets this series apart is the story. It's so ambiguous and confusing at first -- OK, for most of the series -- but it comes together incredibly well to end up being a wonderfully complex, deep, and haunting existential tale. Sure, there's some nice action and excitement, which I really like, but it's the layers of story, the intrigue, the Philip K. Dick-esque mind-bending journey that really sets this comic book above almost all others.

Just read it all in one or a few sittings, go with the flow and let the art carry you through the parts that make you scratch your head and you'll be rewarded in the end.

[Bill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmph. So the story is a Solaris flip? Decent enough I guess. The pacing is way off which robs the final twist and the finale of most of its oomph. Also, the characters don't speak or act believably. Is that because they're planet spawned homunculi? No, Pollux's wife commits suicide after only hearing part of her husbands story, which makes no sense, and she was human. Turn that scene into a couple days or even a handful of hours and it would be more believable. Instead it takes place over a few panels that seem like minutes at most. That pacing problem again. Wasted so many pages on the story of a priest going crazy early on in the series... could've used some of those pages to flesh out the ending a bit more. Three star storytelling with ten star art.

[Andy Hickman · Rating 4 out of 5]

DRIFTER Vol. 4 - REMAINS

Now that Ghost Town is blown to smithereens… we discover who the true ‘ghosts’ and echoes really are!

DRIFTER #15

“My guts itch where he shot me last.” – Pollux referring to Emmerich coming to shoot him

“We are all aliens”
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DRIFTER #16

“No gun or hand was ever worse for me than quiet.” – Pollux

Just what is going to happen? Virginia Pollux – who and where?
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DRIFTER #17
Finally a significant flashback that starts to put the pieces back together.
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DRIFTER #18
So .. basically the humans are ‘carbon copies’ of themselves created by the atmosphere of the planet??
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DRIFTER#19
Like looking into a broken mirror!
Fascinating story concept – ends!

[Hans · Rating 4 out of 5]

The essential final chapter to the Drifter storyline, bringing the space-western-revenge story to a close, even as the story rewinds to the beginning. This answers almost all of the questions from the opening volumes and provides the context for the all-out melee in the third book. I still don't exactly understand the reason for a few of the story turns (like what the hell was up with the preacher in that early part of the story?), but that is a minor quibble, as the story and the art drew me in completely.

If you read this, make sure to read all four volumes. All parts are essential to the whole story.

[Hercho · Rating 2 out of 5]

This just felt like too little, too late. I was really into volume 1, still interested through 2 but started getting "Lost" vibes, i.e. that the writer had a lot of good "WTF" hooks but wrote checks they couldn't cash. Volume 3 was so uninteresting I was ready to stop reading, but I powered through this one and had some early questions answered. Unfortunately I just didn't care at this point.

[Tobias Asplund · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tung och bra serie.

[Manu · Rating 4 out of 5]

And by Vol. 4 it finally all made sense. :D

[Tina Olah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid conclusion to the series, with beautiful art as usual. The major plot twist/reveal was GREAT; it cleared up so much!

[Denny · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great ending to this trippy, dreamlike, sci-fi series.