Waterstones Port of Earth Volume 1
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Price: £14.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: PORT OF EARTH: Imagine if aliens came to Earth not in war or peace, but with a business deal: open up a spaceport here on Earth in exchange for advanced technology. But when our alien visitors break Port restrictions and wreak havoc in our cities, it falls to the newly formed Earth Security agents to hunt down and safely deport the dangerous rogue aliensback to the Port of Earth. A gritty sci-fi action thriller from new comic bookwriter Zack Kaplan (ECLIPSE) and Andrea Mutti (REBELS, STAR WARS, BATMANETERNAL, PROMETHEUS). Waterstones Port of Earth Volume 1 - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781534306462
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ISBN: 9781534306462
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Author: brandon
Rating: 5
Review: This is a great twist on a classic theme of aliens coming to Earth
Author: A. Ross
Rating: 1
Review: This collects the first four issues of the comic, in which the basic premise of the series is established. Aliens finally visited Earth and have negotiated the establishment of a port some fifty miles off the coast of San Francisco. It seems that spaceships are powered by water, and Earth has plenty of that, making it a convenient interplanetary gas station of sorts. In exchange, Earth gets to learn how to convert to water-based power, ditching fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, etc. This is a boon, except it disrupts the economy to such an extent that unemployment is at 25%, and so there's plenty of tension about this "deal." This is all introduced via a running interview that opens the first few pages of each issue. After those pages of info-dump, each issue then moves on to the story of two Earth Security Agents -- Rice and McIntyre. Despite clear rules that alien visitors are restricted to the port, periodically there are "incidents" where aliens pop up around Earth and wreak havoc, killing lots of people, etc. So the ESA was established to "contain" such incidents using strict "rules of force" protocols to try and get rogue aliens back to the port without having to kill them. The story here follows Rice and McIntyre as they investigate a possible rogue alien in a kind of shantytown near San Francisco, but this first volume ends with the storyline unresolved. All in all, I didn't really go for this in any way. I was hoping for a more global view of how this all worked -- it was never clear if the civic unrest was just in the US or worldwide. And why off the coast of San Francisco -- why not in the middle of the Atlantic, between the US. South America, Europe, and Africa, for example? And the story about the two ESA agents is super-generic: one plays by the rules, one doesn't, wow! The artwork is equally uninspiring, rendered almost entirely in a muted gray and brown palette, with blasts of aqua for alien technology. I guess it's supposed to convey a bleak and moody vibe, but mainly it just felt dingy and unfinished. All in all, a total misfire for me.
