The Couriers, Volume 2: Dirtbike Manifesto

The Couriers #2

by Brian Wood, Rob G (Illustrator)

Sometimes Moustafa and Special, The Couriers, run guns. Yeah, it's not the most admirable job in the world to take on, but they got rent to pay and ammo to buy, and M has acquired a rather expensive new hobby: building the ultimate motocross dirtbike from scratch. But their latest gig goes bad... all kinds of wrong... and it ticks 'em off. They head to upstate New York to track the guns to the source to and get a little vengeance and get P-A-I-D in the process. Ever been to these half-dead New York towns? The slow economy hits hard up there, and the streets are dead on a weekend, and half the shops are boarded up. Lots of pissed off people with too much time on their hands, and half of 'em own guns... don't need two young arrogant punks from The City to roll into town like they own the place...

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction, Thriller, Graphic Novels Comics

88 pages, Paperback

First published January 31, 2004

About the author

Brian Wood's history of published work includes over fifty volumes of genre-spanning original material.

From the 1500-page future war epic DMZ, the ecological disaster series The Massive, the American crime drama Briggs Land, and the groundbreaking lo-fi dystopia Channel Zero he has a 20-year track record of marrying thoughtful world-building and political commentary with compelling and diverse characters.

His YA novels - Demo, Local, The New York Four, and Mara - have made YALSA and New York Public Library best-of lists. His historical fiction - the viking series Northlanders, the American Revolution-centered Rebels, and the norse-samurai mashup Sword Daughter - are benchmarks in the comic book industry.

He's written some of the biggest franchises in pop culture, including Star Wars, Terminator, RoboCop, Conan The Barbarian, Robotech, and Planet Of The Apes. He’s written number-one-selling series for Marvel Comics. And he’s created and written multiple canonical stories for the Aliens universe, including the Zula Hendricks character.

Reviews

[carter Edwards · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book because it explained a lot of things on the dirt bike so that was cool to learn a=bout.

[47Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

This episode does away with a great deal of dialogue in favor of car chases, shootouts and hand-to-hand Combat. It's even more brainless and shallow than the first one. It's so unrealistic it's stupid, but this series isn't striving for realism, character development or any other things that make a comic achieve a fandom. If you're looking for pure action, this comic is a good choice.

After mourning a fallen friend during a busted weapons deal, the Couriers head upstate for the only clue they have about who set up the deal. They have to face racist rednecks along the way. It's a good opportunity to test out Moustafa's dirt bike. This latest adventure will have the Couriers confront their redneck counterparts.

The redneck militia is a force to be reckoned with. The Couriers find proof that the weapons from the deal came from them, but are disarmed and beaten up. It's on now! The two kick some serious ass in revenge.

[Krishnakumar Mohanasundaram · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is in many ways similar to the first album.

When a fellow courier is killed in a deal gone wrong situation, Mustafa and Special take up on a journey to find the killers.

Like the first album, we have an extensive action sequence at the end of the book.

[Steve Howells · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a fun quick read.

[Ryan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definitely better than the first volume. I found myself more invested in the characters even rooting them on. The action scenes only managed to get better and bloodier. I did give this 3 stars only for the lousy portrayal of upstate New Yorkers, really poor characterization of the enemy.

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite entertaining, even though (1) the art wasn't as intricately detailed and (2) the story wasn't as engaging as in The Couriers Volume 1. More than worth a read, though.

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a lot of fun, and a gripping story like this deserves to be longer and more complex. Still, it was a helluva ride and I want more.

[Sam McCanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

comics,crime,drama

[Anya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like it a lot for what it is, I wish there would be more. Can't fault him for writing more DMZ though.

[Drew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Moustafa has big dreams about his dirtbkike, but when a friend of his and Special's is killed in a deal gone wrong, the two head to upstate New York to get some revenge.

[Zanne · Rating 5 out of 5]

12.95