Quatermain #1

writers: Clay & Susan Griffith
artist: Patricio Carbajal

Allan Quatermain is a character whose cultural legacy was almost salvaged by Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (and whose role in the movie Moore reviled torpedoed both his prospects and Sean Connery's continued interest in an acting career), so it was great interest that I discovered this particular Bluewater effort.

In short, Quatermain makes an ideal alternative comic book hero, because he's about as unlike anything else you'll find that you call make that your excuse to care. He's an older figure, and his adventures take place not only in the past, but on an entire continent usually only relevant to the medium when some preposterous figure like Black Panther is prancing about.

And the amazing thing is that this comic is actually really good. Well, maybe the art is just adequate, but the writing is superb, making you wonder all over again why Quatermain was only attempted once before as a member of a literary hodgepodge.

Long story short, you need to read this one.