Review: Dominé
The planet Dominé is a barren desert wasteland. Once a green Utopia, its resources were plundered to such an extent that famine and violence have decimated the population. The tyrant King Reyland rules a domain within a huge, mobile fortress called the Avarus. In return for survival from the unforgiving environment, his followers pledge their allegiance to him...
Those who prefer to stand apart form a bandit alliance: the Ungovernables. Proud and brave, they mount an assault against the gargantuan armoured stronghold, but they are a rag-tag bunch with poor weapons. Is this a charge towards glory... or suicide?
Dominé by writer James Roberts and artist Pizo Meyer is a very bitter dystopian tale with lots of violence. The good guys are driven by desperation, which takes some of the shine off their heroism, but lends an authentic edge. Their weapons are a mix of high-tech and low; they have a few airborne fighter pilots in gunships but mostly they ride horse-like native steeds and brandish swords and daggers.
The Avarus has gun turrets but its foot soldiers have no rifles so they too must face the enemy with mostly scimitars and cutlasses... Much decapitation ensues, and we learn that the green reptilian guys have yellow blood.
The artwork is expressionistic, loose but energetic with bold, surreal colours. The desert and sky are many shades of red, like a blood-stained corpse of a world.
The Ungovernables face certain doom before the mighty Avarus... or do they? Perhaps the scarlet sands may soon be splashed a different hue...
Zak Webber
Twitter - @sfcomicartist / Instagram - @sfcomicartist
JOIN US ON FACEBOOK! - SCI-FI COMIC NEXUS
*****
***
*
Comments
Post a Comment