I'm a bit conflicted on this rating, so here's my breakdown.

Plot Transparency: 1
Artwork: 5
Creative World: 4
World Building: 2
Would I read the next volume? 5

That ends up around 3.4 but I'm rounding up. Cause dat artwork.



But it's not just the big panels, it's the small stuff too.



And look at this gorge overlay/memory shot!



And wow, all those caps are really purpley-blue, so take a look at this creep-monster's teeth!



And this old man's face!



And these scary things!



But yeah, plot made almost no sense. He's on a space ship that crashes on a planet that apparently doesn't get too many visitors? But they don't space travel, maybe? And he sees these creatures when he lands that we don't see again. And weird lightning critters are out there. And there's a guy that doesn't speak. And he works shoveling worm poo all day... To buy a gun? And there's a little girl that annoys the guy that doesn't speak. Oh and a crazy as hell priest that is crazy.

The end.

But would I read this again?

HELL YES.

GIVE ME MORE.

Copy courtesy of Diamond Book Distributors, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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Science fiction comic collection with monsters

A spaceship crashlands on a planet and the pilot has to learn to live amongst rogues and monsters. There is a lot of mystery involved as various characters are introduced but left unexplained.

The dialogue is stilted and not particularly well-written but the artwork is well-executed and clear.

This doesn’t work for me so I won’t be bothering with Volume 2.
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(ARC was provided to read and review.)

Abram Pollux is forced to make an emergency carsh landing on a planet, which seems to consist mostly of a bleak desert landscape. After barely surviving the landing and severly injured, he finds himself not only in an immediate encounter with strange reptile looking aliens, but also in a gunfight and rather surprisingly, he survives both.
He wakes up in some sort of surgical room and the woman, who just tended to his wounds, informs him, that he was unconsious for three days, something which he will later start to question.

Pollux isn't prepared to waste any more time and wants to get back to his ship asap and now various storylines start to run parallel.
There is his encounter with a strange preacher, who sees him as a "godsend" and has obviously a story of his own. Pollux will meet more varieties of dangerous aliens and the inhabitants of the Western-style town and will help them in their struggle to survive. And then there's a very intriguing, dark character with a breathing mask, Emmerich Bell, which reminds me quite a bit of the movie The Dark Knight.

What could now make for gripping and entertaining twists and turns of the story, had me often confused and the dialogues sometimes didn't make sense. I still try to piece it all together, which is sad, because there's the potential to so much more as the illustrations are a feast, if you like your graphic novels with fantastic futuristic cities and desert planet landscape, as I do. Not to forget the aliens, where particularly the "bear" and the dark sky covered in lightning were a complete hit with me.

Will I look out for Volume 2?
Yes, as I'm prepared to give Ivan Brandon's Drifter one more deserved try and Nic Klein's artwork is amazing as always. ( )