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Whatever Happened to the Fastest Man
I remember a past where two 11 year olds surrounded by small piles of Marvel Comics discussed which super powers they would have if by some miracle they were exposed to radio activity or struck by a bolt of alien lighting.
Super strength, invulnerability, flight, mind control, invisibility, you know all the standard fare available to us though this make-believe world that we immersed ourselves in.
One of the super powers I had wished for was to make time stand still, with this my friend stopped and pondered for a second, yeah but if you did that you would get old real quick.
How do you mean I replied? Somewhat confused, well he said if you stopped time but within that stopped time you continued to function then you would continue to age while everyone else stayed exactly the same age,
I listened intently to my friend who was always a much sharper tool from the box than I was.
OK I said I want to stop time without any side effects! He sighed probably realising that everything he had explained had escaped me completely and we continued to explore the realms of possibility.
As the years went by I always remembered this conversation and wondered why it had never been explored in the medium I had chosen to live my life by, maybe it has I would some times think, and I just haven’t read the comic it has appeared in, maybe someday I will write a story about it myself, yeah right, I would say out load it would be a pretty boring story if I wrote it now wouldn’t it !
This brings me to Accent UK’s latest offering Whatever Happened to the Fastest Man which Accent UK kindly sent me a preview copy.
This square bound American comic size black and white comic book explores just that, the concept of stopping time is brilliantly explored in ways I could never have imagined.
First off I was really impressed by the overall quality of the publication its glossy colour cover alone makes you want to pick it up, once you do the interior pages continue with beautiful black and white artwork by Marleen Lowe who uses clever gray tones to further enhance and to create effects between time and time stopped.
The written word by Dave West who you may remember gave us the fantastic Wolfmen with Andy Bloor.
It immediately draws you in, once you start reading it you just cant put it down, now I don’t want to give to much of the story away but suffice to say an evil act is afoot in so far as a huge bomb planted in a landmark building and only one man has the power to be able to do anything about it and that’s Bobby Doyle who if you hadn’t already guessed can stop time while still able to move freely. The resulting way Bobby deals with this menace is beyond heroic, you see that instead of stopping time just to save himself he uses it to save as many other people as well all the while paying for it by shorting his own life in the real world.
And with that I am not going to say anymore ! except that this is an amazing piece of work and you should buy it, its due in stores around the last week in January 2010.
It could well be the best £3.50 you could ever spend on a Comic Book.
10 out of bloody 10
A well mannered review by The Well Mannered Boy
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