With the Sci-Fi Channel series pulling in high ratings and critical praise, there have been a lot of fans awaiting the new BATTLESTAR GALACTICA comic book series. Judging from Dynamite Entertainment’s special “#0″ introductory issue, I’m betting they will be disappointed.
I know there’s not much story one can squeeze into a smaller-than-usual issue (it’s a mere 25 cents for a reason), but this was completely disposable for me. I read it, I didn’t retain it. I read it again, it was gone just as quickly. That fault lies with MARVEL 1602: NEW WORLD scribe Greg Pak, but where this BATTLESTAR really crashes is in the art, by Nigel Raynor. With the exception of panels of robots or spaceships, it looks rushed and ill-defined. Though Raynor succeeds in making Edward James Olmos’ Com. Adama character a great deal less pockmarked, he can’t draw Mary McDonnell to save his life. On the tube, her character is clearly middle-aged and riddled with cancer; here, she looks like she just finished sorority rush.
There is no sneak preview of Dynamite’s upcoming LONE RANGER comic as initially reported; that space has been wasted by a wordless three pages from RED SONJA #11, not to mention ads for that series, but also Dynamite’s XENA, ARMY OF DARKNESS, HIGHLANDER, et al. If they had put as much effort into the presentation as they did the advertising, they might have had something. Even separated from the show, it’s a dud. For once, the zero denotes more than numerical order. –Rod Lott
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