The Vim Initiative #1-#3

by Richard Davidson, Sleight (Illustrator), Matt Ryan (Cover artist)

A regular guy wakes up one day and has super powers. Told in a non-linear style, we slowly start to piece together what is really going on behind Vic's rise to superhero status.

72 pages, Paperback

Reviews

[Andy Luke · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with other Back Pocket Comics good reads the writer - also publisher - has a refreshing budgeting of words on the page. Illustrator Sleight makes use of this flexing character positions and expressions at a level not unlike Jamie McKelvie on Phonogram. Sleight also does a bloody good set of robots and office block or six. His use of colour palette is quite impresses. In the script, the love for fun superheroes comes through. Risks are taken with a multi-linear narrative which don't quite pay off for me. The final act drops the ball a bit with a late part villain and a big drop in the quality of lettering, but hey-ho, this was a fun few hours reading.