BUY THIS: Viking #1.
Viking #1: Written by Ivan Brandon, art by Nic Klein, logo by Tom Muller
I’m sure I’m probably the millionth blogger to write and sing the praises for Ivan Brandon and Nic Klein’s first issue of Viking. The language was steep and rich: the speech bubbles often required a second reading to get the complete meaning, something that I can say is only equaled by Jason Aaron’s Scalped, and the wider book size was also eye catching to the benefit of Nic Klein’s art. To describe how finite Klein’s art was take a look at page four, the first full page spread spotlighting Finn and Egil. I must have spent 10 minutes examining every inch of that page, and I suggest you do the same. I’ll wait. Okay, the sky is what does it for me, you can tell its just starting to set, the perfectly straight lines behind the figures of our main characters, tells that the sun is setting to the left of the reader and its windy out. There is no way Egil’s hair is permanently stuck like that, flowing to the right with winds coming from the direction of the setting sun, though it may not be so difficult. God knows, when the last time these guys showered (bathed? whatever). The best part? Its not just this page, this kind of detail is throughout the entire book.
You can buy it any of your local comic book shops, though hurry up, it sold out at the retailer level before it even came out.
