The Light #1 – Review

By: Nathan Edmondson (story) & Brett Weldele (art/letters)

The Story: A virus is infecting people who look at electric lights and causing them to burst into flames.  Amid the confusion a father and his daughter try to get to safety while avoiding looking at “the light”.

What’s Good: Thank goodness looking at the lights doesn’t turn people into zombies.  That’s such a crowded genre and even though I love zombies, unless someone really has something unique to say about them, it’s better left alone.  This first issue (of five total) is really just a set-up for the rest of that story, but it looks like Edmondson is in a good position to tell a nice post-apocalyptic story and that is always a fun genre.

This first issue quickly establishes our two main characters: a lousy drunk father and his teenage daughter.  I think their relationship is handled pretty well.  The crap hits the fan pretty suddenly in this issue and we wouldn’t expect the teenage daughter to respond well to her lousy father storming into her bedroom in the middle of the night demanding that she wear a blindfold.

The art is scratchy and moody.  It isn’t hyper-detailed, but it tells the story effectively.  The cover is a pretty good exemplar of what the issue looks like.