The Rising, Earp: Saint Or Sinner & Hotwire: Deep Cut #1 - Comic Review

The infrastructure inherent in new comics means creating a sense of place with resolute characters that both understand their shortcomings but also portray a sense of darkness where everything is not necessarily true. Using predetermined ideas of genre helps to create a backstory, especially in the case of many  properties of Radical Publishing. With "The Rising" despite its "V"intentions, the suspense reigns in the ability while "Ryder On The Storm"perfectly anticipate its wants. "Hotwire: Deep Cut" recognizes its strength the most while "Earp: Saint For Sinners" uses a predetermined character structure within a new world to balance similar and new emotional repercussions.The Rising (Radical Premiere) With a prevalence suggesting a V-type structure where aliens come to rescue the perception of human life then wrestle it into a texture of martial law, the comic knows its baseline. Its darkening structures within its reading point however to a more primal basis linking "Avatar" with "300". The ideals become one of loss versus overwhelming odds. The dark vicious green and blacks that permeate the page especially with the smatter of blood add a unreal yet earthy feel to the proceedings as the vista of New York blanketed with the tentacles of alien spaceships give warning to the impending onslaught to come. While the mythic tendencies point to a bloody battle ensued with a lack of possibility, the identity based structure of the characters especially at the end with a "Cool Hand Luke" homage speaks to a more basic understanding of the mythology.Earp: Saints For Sinners (Radical Premiere) The retelling of the Wyatt Story, especially in the New West, carries a sense of nouveau vision especially with a new world where banks have collapsed, the movie studios have imploded and the sense of general America is a still-flawed vision of right and wrong but one where these battles take place on a national scale. Flight plans are closely guarded and most outlays need to take place on ground since the digital blood that served the world in the beginning of the 21st Century is now poisoned. The impetus that makes the introduction work is the personification of Wyatt as the reluctant soul who even after taking down many of the criminals in a task force became the unwitting poster boy of a "good guy" movement when fugitive/wanna-be do-gooders like Jesse James challenge him at every point. Granted these men are ingrained in the American consciousness but their relativity fits interestingly within the confines of these world especially as the first issue closes with the derailing of a bullet train in the middle of the desert.Hotwire: Deep Cut (#1 of 3) Like the impetus of Alice we have seen before, mired in self doubt because of her creation, the relative balance of her love/hate for the people she hunts resides in a netherworld where she cannot deny who her true self. At the inset we see a young woman who is taking intelligence dampers to lose the pain, only to watch a man she is involved with fall to his death after failing a moral code of "blue-light" [new code for ghosts]. She is dropped back into the fray when new robot-fused carriers make her job distinctly more difficult despite her numbing of the situation. While the neo-modern possibilities make the comic richly vibrant glowing in its incandenscent neutrality, it is Alice who pinpoint the confused energy allowing a bit of chicanery to infiltrate the settings.