It is fun seeing Kieron
Gillen writing something so extremely different from what seems to be his
norm. First off I have never been a great fan of his work. What I have read was
good, but it was never 100% to my taste. With such a wide and heavy number of
books I get he often gets cut. Still everything I have read has been very
readable and well structured.
Uber #1 according
to the back matter was written two years after Uber #0 and it shows. Uber #1 is
a superior book to Uber #0. Zero suffered from trying to establish too many
things at one time. The base story line is WWII did not end with the Battle of
Berlin because the Nazi’s managed to develop and unleash a group of super
soldiers that turned the tide. This issue picks up after the Nazi’s have won
that battle.
It starts with Hitler about to blow his brains out when he
receives news they have won the battle. We jump around and find out Churchill is
crushed by the news. There is hope as England has a spy that has been
part of what the Nazis have been doing. She succeeds in blowing up production
of the drugs that are making super humans and is trying to make it to England . The
Nazis are reveling in their glory and some are wondering what they have
unleashed. The atrocities of WWII just got ratcheted up a level as we watch a
super soldier slaughter POWs.
Where zero was uneven, this issue set up the premise and
gives us a divergence point as we now build the alternative reality. These
stories, when done well, are always fun and I believe a writer named Harry
Turtledove has made a career out of this type of stories. Someone let me know
if any of his stuff is worth reading.
The art is not the strongest. Caanan White has not made his entire cast distinctive enough. Perhaps
it is the uniforms that are causing some of it as I’m not 100% sure which
German general is which. I feel that the art is at times muddled by the heavy
handed coloring, but that maybe to cover artistic flaws. I always feel a little
bad criticizing any artist because I can’t draw at all, but I know what I like
and don’t like. White’s work is on the bottom end of acceptable, but in the end
does convey the story.
Buy it.
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