There are some stories that are rather subtle. They drama’s in the layers of mundane everyday life and its activities. The heroes are ordinary people and the villains sometimes the conditions of the lives they live. Those require a delicate balance to mine the story for extraordinary meaning in the face of seemingly ordinary occurrences. That is NOT the deal with Deathbed #1 out this week from Joshua Williamson and Riley Rossmo. This is the story of Antonio Luna and his ghostwriter. And it’s going to be whacky, bold, and bizarre ride. It also just might be as much as you can have with a comic book.
There have been many words to describe Antonio Luna: Myth, hack, sex symbol, and stark raving lunatic come to mind. He’s the greatest adventurer that you’ve never heard of. Well, he was. Antonio Luna disappeared a couple decades ago and everyone’s pretty much written off the ninety year-old. Now, a new visitor will arrive at his home in order to tell his story, the most daring and exciting ever! She’s a failed novelist named Valerie Richards. Valerie travel’s to Luna’s castle (because no one this boss settles for a mansion) to hear Luna’s tale as he lays in his deathbed. Except this assignment will be anything but a straightforward linear narrative for Valerie. She’ll be brought into a life unlike any she’s dreamed up.
Sometimes you want a book that’ll take you by the shoulders and shake you up a bit. That’s exactly what Deathbed seems hellbent to do. There’s nothing subtle about this first issue. It will be in your face and challenge you for an old school style of adventure that would make Kavalier and Clay giddy. Will this be the greatest tale ever told? We’ll have to read and see. But this is definitely a fun beginning to what promises to be an epic story.
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