Longshots #1
Marcell Hines
Recap
BUY THIS COMIC, OR ALL OF YOUR FAVORITE HEROES WILL DIE!
X YEARS LATER, and Mojo's got a new game for Wonder Man, Hellcat, Bishop, Rhino and Kraven to play. There are no rules. One survivor wins. The others die. Mojo promises you can vote for the winner with your dollars — but you probably can't. Mojo cannot promise that any of this is true or that you can even vote, as all decisions will be made by Mojo and Mojo alone, in his Mojo dojo, it's fame or fatality in the wildest X-book of the year!
*Void where prohibited, no purchase necessary, unless you plan on missing out on one of the craziest comic book series you'll ever read in this lifetime!
Review
The X-Virus has devastated the Earth, humanity is on the brink of extinction, the X-Men have all but fractured, and there’s nothing good to watch on TV! The apocalypse may have landed, but the show must always go on. No one knows that better than the lord and Executive Producer of the Mojoverse himself, Mojo. With streaming numbers down and viewership in the toilet, Mojo hatches a desperate and deadly plan to keep that sweet sweet ad money coming in.
From the first page Longshots immediately categorizes itself as a book that doesn’t take itself too seriously. With it’s literal pig-headed lawyers, a X-Baby roundtable discussing show ideas, fourth wall breaks, and it’s almost completely random cast of characters that the creative team chose to focus on.
Hellcat, Bishop, Rhino, Wonder Man, and Kraven the Hunter are the newest doomed cast selected for Mojo’s latest and most dangerous ratings ploy by infiltrating the Revelation territories.
Two of Krakoa’s most prolific writers, Gerry Duggan and Jonathan Hickman, have dipped their toes back into the X-Pool way sooner than anyone would have thought. However, instead of giving us thought provoking prose and questions of morality and nation building, they have instead chosen to take a more comedic stroll through the wasteland once known as Earth. The pair have earned it after doing lots of serious work in Krakoa, but the mileage may vary if that’s not what you want to see from them.
On the art front, Alan Robinson does a great job of making the book fun, energetic, and violent with plenty of visual gags to go along with the somewhat snappy dialogue and fourth wall breaks. Yen Nitro’s colors also stand out against the drab backdrop of the event.
Final Thoughts
Longshots #1 is a fun time in a world gone extinct, but it will come off as jarring if you’re trying to keep your Age of Revelation read more on the serious side.
Longshots #1: Must Watch TV
- Writing - 7.5/107.5/10
- Storyline - 7/107/10
- Art - 8/108/10
- Color - 8/108/10
- Cover Art - 7/107/10
