When John Taylor was a boy, he and his father were out riding a motorcycle when they were abducted by aliens. John was returned with a fuzzy memory of what happened and strange voices in his head that tell him things. His father wasn’t so lucky. He disappeared without a trace. Left to grow up without a father and the constant chatter inside his brain that the doctors think is schizophrenia, which John is able to keep at bay by taking psych meds. That is, except for once a month when he uses the voices to tell him the winning numbers at the roulette table in Atlantic City. He thinks that no one is the wiser, until his wife is trying to get a promotion at the local radio station and uses John to come on and tell his story of the Translators in his head. Little did John know that the government has been watching him and his special abilities and now they need to cash in on his expertise to be able to translate any language through the voices in his head. You see, the end of the world is coming and it’s not going to be from global warming, nuclear war, or genocide. It’s going to be coming from outer space and the aliens that abducted John when he was little and the government needs his help. Will it be too late to save man kind?
The Translator is a unique Apocalyptic tale from Gord Rollo, the man that brought us the gems, The Jigsaw Man and Valley of the Scarecrow. He uses his imaginative vision to carve out the approaching end of the world using everything from Area 51 and Roswell, NM to the Loch Ness Monster, Machu Pichu, and his take on the Bible’s Revelations. John is a three-dimensional character that you soon feel for and I love the take on the whole Area 51 and Mayan end of the world calendars. However, I wasn’t crazy with the biblical battle at the end. It seemed a tad hokey and had the “what’s the point?”factor going on. But, that’s a small complaint for great characters and crisp writing. Rollo has been MIA the past couple of years and that’s sad to see. He is definitely a talent that I have come to know and love and hope that he’s able to get back into kicking out more works of his imagination on a more regular basis.
4 Horseman of the Apocolypse out of 5 (or was it 4?)
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