Proxima Centauri #1

Proxima Centauri #1

by Farel Dalrymple

"PROXIMA CENTAURI," Part One 4.243 light-years from Earth, the teenage wizard adventurer Sherwood Breadcoat is stuck in the confounding spectral zone on the manufactured dimensional sphere, Proxima Centauri, looking for escape and a way back to his brother while dealing with his confusing emotions, alien creatures, and all sorts of unknown, fantastic dangers. In this issue The Scientist H. Duke sends Sherwood on a salvage mission and gives counsel to the troubled boy in his charge. PROXIMA CENTAURI will be six issues of PSYCHEDELIC SCIENCE FANTASY ACTION COMIC BOOK DRAMA starring Sherwood Breadcoat, "The Scientist" Duke Herzog, Dr. EXT the Time Traveler, the ghost M. Parasol, Shakey the Space Wizard, and Dhog Dahog.

31 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 13, 2018

About the author

Farel Dal lives in Portland, Oregon and is currently working on a comic book called ROBot TOD. He is the creator of: 20202020 (2022 floating World comics), THE OFTEN WRONG(Image comics 2019), Proxima Centauri (Image comics 2019), IT WILL ALL HURT (Image Comics 2018), Pop Gun War: Chain Letter (Image Comics 2017) and POP GUN WAR: GIFT (2016 Image Comics, 2001 Dark Horse), The Wrenchies (First Second Books 2014), and Delusional (Adhouse 2013). Farel was a co-founder and contributor to the comic anthology, Meathaus, and the artist on Palefire (Secret Acres 2015) written by Mk Reed, Prophet (Image Comics 2012) by Brandon Graham, Omega the Unknown (Marvel Comics 2010) by Jonathan Lethem, Jenny Finn (Dark Horse 2018) by Troy Nixey and Mike Mignola, and Caper (DC Comics 2003) by Judd Winick.
Farel Dalrymple and Soph Franz just debuted MONSTER_US!!! a 64-page monster art zine which you can get on their store https://store.fareldal.com/

Reviews

[Liz (Quirky Cat) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Proxima Centauri is a new series by Image Comics. I literally knew nothing about it when I picked it up, but Image has been taking a lot of fun risks lately so I’m willing to reward that by giving most of their new series a try.
The storytelling style for this series is a little bit scattered and rushed, but it does have potential. I’m not going to pretend that I understood everything that was happening, but I expect a lot of it will get explained further in the series. Clearly the goal for this issue was to grab our attention and curiosity.
I really love the rougher art style for this series. You can clearly tell it was all hand drawn – something you don’t see all of the time these days. The plain backgrounds was an interesting choice, but I actually think it really complemented the art style perfectly.

[Kristin · Rating 2 out of 5]

This issue #1 left me more lost than I like to be after paying $4. The art isn't to my preference, but if the story is good, that doesn't matter so much. Looks like we have a couple more issues in the waiting-to-read pile, so I'll be giving it a bit more of a go, and see if the story becomes more comprehensible to me.

[Chris Thompson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bizarre, and not in a good way. Lacks structure or any idea of the rules of this story’s world, and everything feels random as a result. The art is okay. Usually I’ll finish a mini-series like this, but this just doesn’t hold interest for me.

[Paige · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was very visually compelling, but there was no way to make heads or tails with what was happening in the story. They were jumping to all different places and there were just a lot of complaints. It was hard to have sympathy for the main character when I couldn't figure out what was going on.