Black Summer TPB (Avatar)

From Juan Jose Ryp’s detailed pencil work to both the large plot arcs and small character moments of Warren Ellis’ writing, Black Summer drives full throttle down your throat! This book reflects the current political climate, telling its story with a wicked acidic tongue.

When one of America’s superheroes gets tired of the way the current government has been doing things and decides to massacre the President and his administration to make the country free again, it puts his old allies in hot water! As the world turns a discerning eye toward anybody with super powers, they find themselves on the run, swept up in a revolution they wanted no part of.

Black Summer is what Warren Ellis does best! Along the current trend of books like the Boys, where superheroes are put into a more likely and realistic perspective, (with a cynical edge of course), Ellis creates a new world of super powered people all his own. He uses science-fiction technology to explain the various powers and how they all evolved while providing full servings of ultra violence, humor, political commentary and more gore than the MPAA would allow in an X-Rated movie! From beginning to end it’s Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, with nary a place to catch your breath! Think of Rising Stars on crack.

It’s nice to see a publisher like Avatar continuing to give creators like Ellis and Ennis a place to tell their special brand of warped stories. Black Summer reads like the next best comic book movie that you’d love to see on the big screen. The only problem is that you’d lose Ryp’s sensational artwork!