Written by Tyrese Gibson, Mike Le and William Wilson
Art by Tone Rodriguez
Image Comics
Have I read this before? A masked vigilante is out to exact revenge against an unreachable mob boss named Big X. The book starts out in a Chinese restaurant, straight out of a John Woo film, where the hero charges in with the help of his accomplice and slashes, gashes, shoots and deep fries bad guys to find out where the shipment is to be dropped off. Next we find the hero (going by the name of Dante) praying that he can exact his revenge on Big X and not, as the priest suggests, for his own forgiveness. The final part of the book is where Dante breaks up the shipment and we finally see Big X who tells his henchmen "first one to bring me his bleeding head gets ten million."I don't really know who Tyrese Gibson is. I did look him up on IMDB and saw that he appeared in a bunch of movies. But I think that someone should have gave him some comic books to read before letting him write one. The plot is so standard and uninspired that the twist/cliffhanger at the end is not that surprising. But it reads like a standard action film that I loved to watch in the 1980s.
The art by Tone Rodriguez is ok. There is nothing hugely striking as being fantastic with a uniquely visible style. Nor is there any panel that shouts out as being done in a half assed manner. There is violence, but it doesn't make me wince. There are explosions, but I didn't really feel the force of them. Competent but not spectacular.
So if you pass on this title on the shelf, don't worry about it. There are many better books out there for us to read.
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