If You Find This, I’m Already Dead #1: Hello New World

If You Find This, I’m Already Dead #1 is a tense sci-fi thriller that will leave readers out of breath by the end of the issue. 

There is no sugar coating it, this issue is brutal and certainly not for the faint of heart. A premiere issue, the story kicks off with humanity finding access to another realm. For now, answering how a quantum realm has been found isn’t important so much as the “what comes next.”

For reporter Robin Reed, she is the first press/civilian to enter the realm with a group of elite soldiers. Within the first few pages, the group are attacked by hostile aliens turning an envoy into a fight to survive. 

Writer Matt Kindt (whose work was also on BRZKR, another bloody title) is no stranger to making the violence part of the plot. This is visualized by Dan McDaid (art) and Bill Crabtree (colors) in very graphic ways. Blood and limbs might as well be side characters. 

From a story perspective there is not a lot of character development as the action begins almost immediately. However, the range of aliens that are present in the issue do a decent amount of world building and establishing a political system that is heavily fascist. 

With an entertaining and fast paced story and rough but action filled art, this issue will definitely stand apart from other comics on the stands right now.