Top Cow First Look Volume 1 TP

by Adam Freeman, Marc Bernardin, Christos Gage

Six New #1 Issues for only Five Bucks!
In an unparalleled publishing initiative, Top Cow proudly presents a collection of six never-before-seen first issues of upcoming series bound in a single collection. Sunset by Christos Gage (Avengers Academy) and Jorge Lucas (The Darkness) tells the tale of an old Vegas enforcer on a quest for revenge in his twilight years. The Pilot Season 2008 winning team of Marc Bernardin & Adam Freeman (The Authority) and Afua Richardson (Cyblade) returns with Genius--a story of a young African-American military genius taking over LA's gangs. Jason Rubin (The Iron Saint) and Tyler Kirkham (Green Lantern Corps) unveil the supernatural murder-mystery Mysterious Ways. B. Clay Moore (Hawaiian Dick) and Nelson Blake II (Magdalena) take you deep into space horror with Black Vault. And reintroducing Top Cow's Minotaur imprint come two dark series: Joshua Hale Fialkov & Rahsan Ekedal's (The Cleaners) generational serial killer Echoes, and Last Mortal, a supernatural noir adventure from Filip Sablik, John Mahoney, and Thomas Nachlik.

160 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2010

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Reviews

[Kris Shaw · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is one of those $4.99 sampler trade paperbacks that I am such a sucker for. The main difference between this and the Vertigo samplers is that these were all as-yet-unreleased new titles. This is a great idea, as it sucked me in to two of the series for sure when the inevitable collected editions surface. Sunset by Christos Gage (writer), Jorge Lucas (artist) and Felix Serrano (colorist) is really good. It's the tried (or is it tired?) and true scenario of the old guard rising up for one last gasp, and I'm hooked. Echoes promises to be one fucked up read, and I can't wait to read more of it. Genius seems interesting but I won't be going any farther along. This book offers a tremendous entertainment value for a measly $5.00.

[Cairnraiser · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a sampler of 4 different Top Cow and 2 Minotaur titles containing the first issue of each title.
There was only one title I really felt like I wanted to follow up and that was "Genius" by Marc Bernardin, Adam Freeman and Afua Richardson about a young female gangbanger who unites the LA gangs and goes to war against the police force.
The rest of the titles seemed OK but nothing I would go out of my way to look up. However it is a cheap way of looking at some titles I would probably not have picked up on my own, and I would certainly buy a similar album (not just from Top Cow) if I came across it.