Operation Boom - A new Reckless Adventure
Operation Boom is a new action comic from Reckless Hero. Written and drawn by Chris Imber with Chris Jenkins providing colouring and lettering.
This new adventure follows the success of RH’s first title The Last Sheriff (Review of the 1st 3 issues coming soon) and focuses on a group of mercenaries reluctantly hired by the government in a ploy to recover tech stolen by a deadly criminal organisation. In this introductory chapter we’re introduced our protagonists in a way that has echos of opening of a new story arc in Chris Claremont’s legendary run on X-men where we’re able to quickly meet the team and understand some of their abilities in advance of the main adventure beginning in full.
Further influences can be seem from other team up pieces both in comics and video games with individual team member’s skills supporting the others to build one deadly unit. I’d draw parallels with Xbox classic Brute Force, but for fear of losing any readers I have before I make even a single power of Vengar reference, so instead I’ll stick contemporary and say Overwatch.
Visually, Imber and Jenkins’ work is bold, colourful and shy of neither taking a full or sometimes even double page to give action shots the weight they need to build the story or throw in some blood soaked violence to these action heavy heroes’ endeavours.There’s also some great composition work and use of picture in picture images to create a sense of pace. Stylistically the anime influences are easily identified, both in the character design and composition as well as the bold colouring choices. For me the look and feel of the characters in particular also resonates strongly with those found in video games, especially 80s / 90s Capcom classics such as Final Fight, Street Fighter & Strider - Which in my book, is far from a bad thing.
All in all this action packed start paves the way nicely for some epic action in what promises to be an explosive follow up issue. I’m looking forward to seeing where this goes next.
You can buy Operation Boom the Reckless Hero’s Website or for news on upcoming titles follow @RecklessHeroHQ and creators Chris Imber @Reckless_Imber & Chris Jenkins @TheMightyBurbs
Until next time - Andy
Twitter @Superandyt83
PS Brute Force forever.
