Roman Empire takes you behind the curtain for a closer look at one of Sports Entertainment’s biggest Superstars, Roman Reigns, as he tries to hold onto the WWE Championship while his former allies Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose gun for his crown.
Roman the Big Dog. The juggernaut descendent of wrestling royalty has made it to the top of the mountain in WWE – just as everyone predicted he would. But it’s lonely at the top, and with the top two contenders for the WWE Championship being his former Shield brothers Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins, keeping the title will be a lot harder than winning it.
Writer Dennis Hopeless ( Jean Grey, Spider-Woman ) and artist Serg Acuña take readers on a ride full of broken alliances and big action.
Dennis "Hopeless" Hallum is an American comics writer from Kansas City, Missouri who has written for Marvel Comics, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Studios, Arcana Studio, and Oni Press.
A really good comic. In the world where the WWE is real. Roman Reigns the big dog with an even bigger chip on his shoulder, he knows he has a destiny, the drive, the build, the bloodline, but the fans have never taken to him as they has to his former "brothers".
Using his rage to fuel him, Roman has made it to the top, but his past is right on his heels. Good action, and an okay story. The last issue completes the circle of the beginning and end of the Shield. The cover gallery also has all the variant covers, including some tributes to past legends. The thing I did not like about this book is that I hate books ending before the end of a fight. I don't care if it is artistic. I don't like it. Which is the only reason I did not give this 5 stars.
This volume returns more to the style of the first volume, and focuses on the career of Roman Reigns. Specifically, when he was world champion and feuding with the other members of the Shield. They also brought up the fact that even though he was the top pushed star in WWE at the time, the fans rejected him and he was being booed out of the building.
Not quite as good as volume 1, but I preferred this type of story more than the one in Volume Two.
Best of the three Shield series, this one revolves around Roman Reigns and the story actually goes into dealing with his real life reactions of being a babyface character but not being accepted & getting booed by the audience. Blurring the lines between kaybabe and reality.