Deron Generally
Deron Generally
The War #1
BOOM! Studios
Written by Garth Ennis
Art by Becky Cloonan
Colors by Tamra Bonvillain
Letters by Pat Brosseau
The Rundown: A group of friends find themselves trapped in the city as the world starts to end around them.
Things continue to deteriorate geopolitically and a group of friends in New York are not immune to the fear being generated by the apparent breakdown of talks between rival nations and the specter of possible nuclear war that the friends find themselves debating as one couple prepares to welcome new life into the world and the rest worry about whether they will survive in it or not. Things become more intense for everyone involved when they discover that London and St. Petersburg are both destroyed in coordinated nuclear attacks.
As the friends wake to a world slowly collapsing around them, they look for comfort either with each other or in trying to find a means of escaping the city before the attack eventually targets New York. As two find comfort at the bottom of a bottle, others look for a physical escape and find it impossible as their attempts to return home are met with a devastating attack.
The Story: Garth Ennis crafts an intense, biting and prescient political story in this first issue. It taps into the real fear many are feeling as global politics teeters on the edge of a knife and the only news seems to be a feeling that things are getting worse. The back and forth between the characters as they deal with their own feelings of uncertainty is beautifully mature and engaging as you begin to care about these characters and the story doesn’t shy away from emotion as things come to a destructive and intriguing head.
The Art: Cloonan delivers fantastic art throughout the first issue. The story is beautifully character based so the art reflects the emotion of moments, but Cloonan also creates brilliantly detailed environments and a visually stunning and shocking final few pages.
The War #1
