Shakara – Complete Collection
writer: Robbie Morrison
artist: Henry Flint
letter: Ellie Deville and Annie Parkhouse
Publisher: 2000 AD/Rebellion
Publication date: March 2025
There are something very satisfying about the basic, relatively simple rhythm exhaust.
Stripes – First published 2000 AD Starting in 2002 – The following pattern is usually followed: Make readers aware of some serious space disaster or injustice. Those responsible for the above-mentioned space disaster will be something. That something It’s a tall, spiky S&M universe threat, and is one of the coolest sci-fi designs you’ve ever seen. Then something Waste everything with violence efficiency, by yelling exhaustWoolen cloth
Life/comics are good.
Of course, this is all simplified exhaust The comic created by the author Robbie Morrison, artist Henry Flint, and letters Ellie Deville and Annie Parkhouse. First serialize on the page Avant-gardethese comics are now collected for the first time in a well-listed new book Shakara: Complete collection.
Like the basic, satisfying pace of the concept, the book is good too. But if the storyteller doesn’t use the above rhythm as a jump point for more complex and surprising storytelling, it’s the risk of getting dull, which is what I am most shocking when reading these comics as a whole. As this collection develops, a thoughtful paper on the nature of violence and revenge dissatisfaction, a cycle of play over and over again when leaders choose oppression and death as solutions to problems.
But it wasn’t until about half of the book that this really began to appear in full. By then we’ve seen our protagonist compete with interesting and diverse enemies. There is a famous assassin named Death who cannot resist his last major job before retirement, Shakara’s daughter of a murdered enemy just wonders why he does this, with a conceited cyborg dinosaur killer, a conqueror so accomplished that he grows up and goes on.
When I read all of this, I was impressed with the flexibility that initially became a simple concept, despite one being filled with complex traps and humor. The famous Assassin storyline is a great lesson in the value of comic relief, and it’s a story full of super violent. This does not make killing or death (this is cheesy), but rather plays a role in the way of looting, bringing us a certain attitude before we seriously return to killing and death. In that arc we get the imitation characters, and my favorite is Indiana Jones Analog Indian ball. It’s all fun and a good transfer.
Throughout the book, it really is a raucous sense of joy when it has the chance to sit in a quieter moment, and it’s been there from the beginning, when the opening sequence teases a story about the last survivor after the destruction of the earth before having some ugly astronaut smash his head and move on. The writing has a subtle sense of humor, and the lines pop up unexpectedly, like “either get out of the situation or be ready to be executed!”, which makes me smile at myself.
The artwork is excellent, too. Flint has established himself as one of the most interesting artists on the page Avant-garde, It means that I was loved last year Judge Dredd Headline story arc, A better world. But by contrast, his work at Dredd’s futuristic home in the mega-city was shackled. exhaust Taking over a world of deep space, Flint is absolutely crazy in his design work, offering designs after a great design that looks like a large set of Shakara dismembered, surfaced in a large set (on a long enough timeline, everyone in the book is dismembered by Shakara).
The lettering is also very strong, and I especially like the white of the black work where the protagonist (and the big bad guy) talks. If I have a note on this collection, it is that it takes a radian or two to find its foothold here before the real story. The concept has been around since the beginning, but it feels a bit like what the creator needs to play something on the page before discovering it Shakara’s Real sound and sense of purpose. That’s not the main explanation, though, as those early arcs are still interesting and they managed to set everything up later.
The narrative bread crumbs have only one perfect trace that makes us all 300+ pages of readers, which makes us very excited as we slowly learn who Shakara is who and why he is doing what he is doing, so we slowly learn more about the nature of Shakara.
Overall, I had a great time in these comics. I was shocked by the high level of craft execution and how thoroughly the second half of the book was putting me in, which made me almost forcedly try to see through it to see how it all ends. Whether you are a newbie exhaust Or, you read these strips every week, and I highly recommend your new full collection.
Shakara – The complete collection is now available through 2000 AD
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