MediSin, Vol. 1: First Do No Harm

Medisin #1-3

by Jeff Dyer, Mark McKeon, David Brame (Contributor)

“First Do No Harm” Chapter 1Health care for super villains! Criminal mastermind Malady has recruited a team of down on their luck physicians to provide medical aid for the world’s worst bad guys. Led by the brilliant Ethan Sharp, the blackmailed doctors struggle to uphold their own ethical codes (or lack thereof) in violent and confusing battlefields. And when one doctor goes rogue, the rest learn a terrifying lesson from Malady.

97 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2017

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 2 out of 5]

What's a supervillain to do when he's beat to Hell after a big dust 'em up? You can't go to a hospital, so why not blackmail a bunch of doctors into running a clinic for bad guys in a heli-carrier. It's a very intriguing premise. Unfortunately it fails some on execution. Most of the characters aren't just evil, they are grade A douchebags. I need someone to root for, even if it's a bad guy. There's not a lot of story here; the collection is short, only 3 issues, and ends on a cliffhanger. The art and coloring is amateurish at best. You can only see so many misshapen heads and garish coloring before it starts to pull you out of the story.

Received an advanced copy from Action Lab and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Alan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Go to volume two for the review

[J.D. DeHart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Where do you go when you are battling in a cape and cowl and get wounded, mortally or otherwise? Especially if you are a supervillain? What if your powers of electricity don't work as a defibulator? This is the imaginative and quite original concept behind the world of Medisin.

The book has a level of violence in it which aims for an older audience, and there is a real sense of science fiction to the action in David Brame's panels - even more so than the average comic, and there are several colorful characters featured here, probably enough for a series of spin-offs. Enough monsters and heroes to satisfy the hungry comic reader, at least, and there is a nice dossier in the back that features a closer look.

Medisin: First Do No Harm takes the reader into a strange new world, and leaves us with just enough to make us want to pick up the next volume in the story. I will say it again - highly imaginative.

[Theediscerning · Rating 1 out of 5]

A work that could have been so much better. A team of doctors on a SHIELD Carrier-type airborne hospital are being blackmailed into working for the baddies in the battle of the superheroes by some nasty alien-styled villain. And that's it - these three issues certainly don't make a full arc, and what with breaking off in the way this does and with the heinous levels of flashback and verbose exposition it's clearly just a beginning. I'd like to say I'd be back for more, but the average art and the really high levels of wordiness probably mean I won't. I'll miss the f-a-f new doctor though - yum and my.

[R Z · Rating 1 out of 5]

I think the premise really has the potential to go somewhere. The plot is simple: a dedicated force of doctors to fix up super villains after battling super heroes.

The premise is really intriguing, which is the reason I picked up this graphic novel, but the execution was lackluster. The characters spoke oddly, exposition was put into places they didn't make sense in, and it just felt cluttered. I wish I liked this, but I just did not.

[Annette Jordan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really liked the concept of this book, it was such an original idea, and I could see a lot of potential. Unfortunately the first couple of issues were quite disjointed and almost garbled, making it difficult to really get the story, and understand the characters and their motivations. Also I was not a fan of the artwork, which was very muddy in the first issue, although it did improve as the book went on. For me, the execution failed to live up to the potential.

[Dev · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review

This was just such a great concept - a group of people offering medical care to supervillains - but it fell completely flat for me. I didn't really like or connect to any of the characters and I'm not sure what the plot arc of this volume was even supposed to be - it just felt like it was all over the place. Also the copy I got had really small images and huge watermarks over every part of the page. I get that you don't want people spreading this everywhere, but if you watermark it so much that it makes it difficult for me to read that's not helping anyone.

[Zacki Kino · Rating 3 out of 5]

as a med student it was really interesting
the plot is a bit on the meh side
i enjoyed the art style but i would have liked this one alot more if the story was a bit more polished