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The Red Wing (2011)

by Jonathan Hickman(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1607064790 (ISBN13: 9781607064794)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Image Comics

review 1: An invading force has devastated the 21st century, and in the 23rd century time travel is being used to try to stop the force before it arrives, with predictable anachronistic problems- going back into time to change things, then coming forward to see what’s happened, is not an easy way to make things the way you want them. An interesting take on the time-travel genre, with a father and son pair as the main characters. This standalone graphic novel works well in the genre, and will be enjoyed by teens.
review 2: To stay alive in the future, the best fighter pilots in the world not only have to perfect their skills and master their aircraft, they also have to know how to travel through time. But when Dominic Dorne's father, legendary pilot Robert Dorne, is los... moret in the past, Dominic joins the ranks in an attempt to rescue him. But things don't exactly turn out as one might expect.Collecting the acclaimed mini-series into a trade paperback graphic novel, The Red Wing is brought to you by award winning writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Nick Pitarra. Jonathan Hickman is doubtless most known to comic book fans as one of the great Marvel masterminds and the personal singularly responsible for bringing the Fantastic Four back to respectability (along with Secret Warriors, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Ultimate Comics Ultimates ... none of which I've read, but they're all extremely well-received). The unfortunate downside to all this commercial success is how little press his more indie, creator-owned work gets. The Red Wing is just the latest in a long string of brilliant stuff he's doing with Image Comics (not the least of which was The Nightly News, one of the first books I ever reviewed for this blog (highly recommended).The Red Wing isn't quite the achievement that The Nightly News is, but it's a solid book, nonetheless. Its intriguing premise (and first issue) is squandered by the fact that this book is only four issues long. This is a large, expansive concept, and telling it in a little over 100 pages isn't ambitious, it's a fools errand. Hickman does his best with the time he has, but it confuses me why anyone ever thought this story could, and should, be wrapped up in the time it takes me to make and eat a Philly cheese steak sandwich.Both Dom and Robert are likeable, with Robert being a guy that I wanted to spend some more time getting to know. I feel like this book could have been a treatment for a much larger series rather than the whole kit and kaboodle.*There was so much potential for something really great. As it stands, The Red Wing is just a good tale, easily digestible, but easily forgettable.I will say, though, that it is the type of book that offers more with repeated readings (sadly, a trait uncommon to a lot of graphic novels). There's some subtlety going on here that I find refreshing, some nuance that's above and beyond for the genre. This is a characteristically complicated and imaginative script by Hickman, and there are a few twists and turns that are fun to see again from a new angle upon a second read. For that reason alone I would call this book a "buy" rather than a "borrow."*Sorry for saying that just now. less

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