Garth Ennis

2016 will be a year for Aftershock, Garth Ennis, and some great comics journalism.

Well, some of my theories about the nature of this ship were born out by this issue, while others turned out to be bogus. More than anything else, this is a sad issue, as virtually all of the characters have been whittled down until only a couple of people are left alive at the end. Be aware, I will be discussing numerous spoilers here, so if you don’t want to know who bites it, don’t read any further. Consider yourself warned.

Finally, we are caught up with the storyline. This was my favorite issue of the series thus far. Not only was it scary (I expected no less), but it sheds some light on just what the hell the crew of the Caliban has gotten into. I hope the remaining issues will live up to the standard set by this one.

Now it is starting to hit the fan. That’s a telling statement, given that the opening issue of this comic has the Caliban crashing into an alien ship. Now, however, the crew knows that somebody is going around squishing people’s heads, and it’s one of their own.

Caliban #2 has the group taking stock of their situation and realizing how little they know about what they’ve gotten themselves into. Ennis teases us with several possibilities before we see the real danger confronting the crew, or at least a hint of the danger’s true nature. Even when it only has a few fleshed out characters, something about this story manages to be engrossing and disturbing all at once.

Caliban #1 Written by Garth Ennis Art by Facundo Percio Published by Avatar Press I’ve been really digging on this comic the past few months, so I’ll be running through the first four issues to get readers all caught up with it. Caliban is written by Garth Ennis and is a horror story set in …

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