Time Before Time #1 Review: Subtle and Elegant
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Time Before Time #1 is a brand new noirish science fiction tale that takes on the idea of working for a better life and feeling like there s no way out. With a heartless corporate-style organization exploiting fairly rare technology to extract fortune and, of course, spread suffering around.
Time Before Time #1 Cover. Credit: Image Comics
In the year 2140, Tatsuo works for a group called The Syndicate, which gets second-hand time machines and uses them for a variety of criminal-related purposes like relocating people to points in the past or poaching from the future. In a means similar to the company stores of yore, Tatsuo is in hock to the Syndicate, trying to work off a debt that keeps rising. He dreams of running away with his love and finding a new life, and circumstances work to deny him in interesting directions.
This week we've got an exclusive look at Heavy Metal's new serialized story Black Beacon, a peek at DC's Pride special, Marvel's Trial of Magneto, and much more.
Jesse Hamm, Marvel, DC Comics and Independent Artist, Has Died
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Comic book artist Jesse Hamm has died. Hamm s wife, Anna Sahrling-Hamm, broke the news today via Twitter, stating that her husband suffered a blood clot in his lung. During the course of his career, Hamm worked for Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Dynamite Entertainment. At Marvel, he provided art for an issue of
Hawkeye, working with fellow artist Steve Liber and writer Matt Fraction. He also drew
Batman 66 #27, an issue of DC Comics continuation of the classic
Batman television series. He drew for Dark Horse Comics
Plants vs. Zombies series and for Dynamite Entertainment s
The Weekly Pull: Future State: Gotham, X-Corp, Time Before Time, and More
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It s almost new comic book day, which means new releases hitting stores and digital platforms. Each week in The Weekly Pull, the
ComicBook.
com team highlights the new releases that have us the most excited about another week of comics. Whether those releases are from the most prominent publisher or a small press, brand new issues of ongoing series, original graphic novels, or collected editions of older material, whether it involves capes and cowls or comes from any other genre, if it has us excited about comic books this week, then we re going to tell you about it in The Weekly Pull.