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Resurrection, Vol. 1

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RESURRECTION takes the standard "Alien Invasion" story we're all so familiar with, and turns it on it's head: What happens AFTER the Invasion? When the Invaders mysteriously disappear, and Humanity can safely emerge from it's hiding places, how will we exist without laws and civilization and leadership?

The series seems to take it's cues from Robert Kirkman's THE WALKING DEAD series, right down to the look of the artwork. We follow a few different groups of survivors, whose paths eventually cross, learn a few bits and pieces of information about the Aliens ("Bugs") and the Invasion, and get a few tantalizing glimpses of the post-Invasion world, but ultimately the books crawls along at a glacial pace....Some of the characters are connected in ways that are never made clear, we leave the book knowing far too little about the Bugs, and are left with more questions then there were when we started.....Granted, these questions will all be addressed within the pages of the upcoming RESURRECTION series, but Author Marc Guggenheim really didn't make me care enough about any of the questions to want to come back to this world again. The art is decent enough, but there's a kind of sameness to the faces that often makes it hard to tell who is who.

184 pages for six dollars is a steal, and I applaud Oni Press for making this book so accessible and wallet-friendly. RESURRECTION: THE INSURGENT EDITION has some great moments, and at this price, it's not going to require you to break the bank, so pick up a copy and decide for yourself.

Countless authors have attempted to illustrate what would happen after the world is wracked with an apocalypse of some sort, or the life that we know undergoes a radical shift of paradigms and conveniences. I'm a big fan of the easiest comparisons here, those being Y : The Last Man and The Walking Dead (and a little bit of Vonnegut), so I'm always interested to see a new interpretation of how we're all going to slowly waste away when the chips are down. I have read The Zombie Survival Guide, after all.

The title of the collection doesn't refer to any kind of zombie happenings, even if the toothy monster on the cover implies otherwise. The idea of "resurrection" refers to the slow rebirth of humanity after a period of 10 years in which alien destruction and experimentation have ravaged the landscape and population of Earth. However, through the course of this collection (which covers the first six issues of the series, and a bonus Annual issue), humanity seems to be more concerned with shooting each other than doing anything noble or grand.

While the beginning of the book makes a strong showing for an emotional tale of the lone survivors trying to make sense of everything, it quickly degrades into a mess of incomprehensible politics that are very likely (and inconveniently) explained by events that happen after this collection ends.

I like this book, but not because it feels exceptionally compelling. The art is very awkward and inconsistent, and it's hard to care about any given character, if you can even tell them apart visually. I do, however, feel that this is worth reading because it's very obviously going somewhere very, very interesting--which is only revealed in the very last page of the collection's main story. The Annual issue, which is also included here, runs on a tangent to the main plot but is exceptionally more interesting.

It's also worth noting that this series has undergone an official reboot since the events of these issues, so while these set a foundation for something, later collections may prove to be a more solid addition to your collection also.

There's a lot of guns and a lot of blood, a few heads crushed with large rocks, as well as profanity, which is selectively @#*&^-ed out.

Ultimately, I am compelled enough to want to see where this is all going. I want to see if humanity digs itself out of their own selfish squabbles to really create a new society, or if the aliens decide to come back, or what they were doing there in the first place. It's a premise with a ton of potential that I hope the creative team can live up to.
-- Collin David

i got the free issue of this at free comic book day and fell in love with the story. A post alien apocalypse conspiracy/survival story I'M IN!!!! bought this with its very appealing price tag of $6 and now i'm fully excited about this series. buy it. $6 come on.