I genuinely enjoy VIPER COMICS and appreciate all of their output. Even when their books are not to my area of taste I can still see the quality of work, and interesting concepts. AND, in a comic publishing world populated by niche and super hero publishers, VIPER manages to do whatever the hell they want. I defy anyone to show me anything that VIPER has done that did/does not break new ground. Perhaps I am wrong but I get the feeling that VIPER’s corporate approach and vision is the reason they’ve attracted so many interesting yet different works. However, mostly because their works cannot be summarized easily, despite their quality, I have found them to be decidedly difficult to review. I try to not reveal spoilers in my reviews, so there is a problem with a high concept well accomplished work in that you would almost certainly spoil the work by discussing it. It does not stop me from reading their work, it just gives me fits trying to word my reviews.
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I hope if these books interest you, you will order them from VIPERCOMICS.com or your Local Comic Shop.
Comics By Josh Howard
With 3 different DEAD@17 mini series, an ongoing DEAD@17, The LOST BOOKS of EVE Josh Howard has made his work at VIPER nearly synonymous with VIPER. His works are their signature works. Since I review Josh’s work often I am going to breeze by them. Dead@17 is the creation of a Christian End Times war between heaven and hell mythos. It is considerably well done, and the ongoing series looks to kick some major ass. The Lost Books of Eve is going to allow Josh to write extra biblical stories, in mythic fashion. And I cannot wait for that.
DAISY KUTTER
Kazu Kabuishi
A cowboy steampunk world combined with aspects of many genres. This book is fun, somewhat beautiful and well worth your investment of time and attention. From my previous review “Daisy Kutter is a former gun toting adventuress upon the wild western range. A wild place yes, but filled with odd combinations of technology and intense rivalries. Daisy is now a dry goods store owner, but cannot resist the call to return to the way of the gun. Once in a long while a comic comes along that challenges your perceptions of the medium or style or format used and how this new product challenges the status quo. Will Eisner used a book length story in comic form to create the graphic novel, at a time that Don McGregor and Paul Gulacy did the same at Eclipse comics. The trade paperback originally collected comics as a way to get a comic sold out quickly into the hands of readers, and only later came to mean a permanent collection of a book hopefully worthy of being kept upon a shelf. Viper Comics with Dead @ 17, and now here reviewed with Daisy Kutter challenge the standard view of anime and manga and story telling subject. D@17 utilized an anime style to accompany a dark, rather scary story. In DAISY KUTTER the author uses a manga style to tell the story of a Western heroine, Daisy Kutter, and makes use of steampunk concepts as well as refining the over the top style of most manga to achieve a look that takes advantage of Manga’s light sensitivities regarding content and character development. But in addition, the style employed allows for a great deal of story to be told outside of the common cliché of the western story, at the same time as embracing the portions of that cliché that still work. This is a tpb that is a pleasure to recommend.”
EMILY EDISON
David Hopkins Brock Rizy
The daughter of a repairman of genius intellect and a royal blooded woman from another dimension, Emily Edison has super powers. Unfortunately her parents were too different and divorced, and her worlds were torn asunder. She loves earth but the other dimensional world has its powers, espec
