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jkcarrierCounting down more of our favorite short-run comic book series. The CBR thread is here:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?436434-The-Sixth-Day-of-Classic-Comics-Christmas-2012
and my pick for today is...
7. The World Below
(4 issues, 1999)
Paul Chadwick took a couple of breaks from Concrete to do this more action/adventure-oriented series. A wealthy industrialist discovers a vast underground world filled with exotic lifeforms and futuristic technology. He sends a team of six explorers down there to scavenge some of that tech, so he can reverse-engineer and sell it. Each issue, the team has to contend with a different weird menace, either biological or technological (or both!), in the course of their quest. The premise is straight out of an old pulp mag, but Chadwick brings a modern sensibility to it -- the characters are explored in depth, as the pressure-cooker environment of the underground world brings out their secrets and insecurities. There are some great monster designs here, grotesque and disturbing. There were two 4-issue runs of The World Below, but apparently it never took off, and the last issue ties up the storyline rather abruptly (albeit with room for a sequel). But what we got of it is great, and highly recommended.
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?436434-The-Sixth-Day-of-Classic-Comics-Christmas-2012
and my pick for today is...
7. The World Below
(4 issues, 1999)
Paul Chadwick took a couple of breaks from Concrete to do this more action/adventure-oriented series. A wealthy industrialist discovers a vast underground world filled with exotic lifeforms and futuristic technology. He sends a team of six explorers down there to scavenge some of that tech, so he can reverse-engineer and sell it. Each issue, the team has to contend with a different weird menace, either biological or technological (or both!), in the course of their quest. The premise is straight out of an old pulp mag, but Chadwick brings a modern sensibility to it -- the characters are explored in depth, as the pressure-cooker environment of the underground world brings out their secrets and insecurities. There are some great monster designs here, grotesque and disturbing. There were two 4-issue runs of The World Below, but apparently it never took off, and the last issue ties up the storyline rather abruptly (albeit with room for a sequel). But what we got of it is great, and highly recommended.
