Cowboy review

The Cowboy is written by Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulos. This is the story about a bout young boy called Boyd. He is 10 years old but he is a lot mature. Whole story shows us how he is revenging for his young childhood. You can use the following link to reach the copy of the comic book-http://cowboycomic.net/chapter-four/part-six

Whole story tailing consist of a few smaller enlightening stories. First one was about his father. His father as I understood was a thief with a big bounty for his head. Boyd got him from one city jail and brought him to another to get a bounty. That fact that he is his father did stop him. There were two purposes for that: one is that Boyd has to earn for a life somehow and the second is that he was revenging probably for a childhood that he never had and his father didn’t t care about him at all.

 Second is a random story not going by plan. He saved a black guy from bullies. But that wasn t help that man was looking for. He was runaway slave and for no one should have no about him. When Boyd scared them, he made a big mistake and that how he get that sometimes it is better to stay away than help those who are not looking for that. 

Third story is about his brother, who all the time for any stuff Boyd did through him in a pig sty. 

It is a fact that during Wild West everyone was robbing and killing. Boyd could have gone for any of them but he is choosing his family members.

To describe Boyd better author used a special look for him. To show his maturity author giving him all characteristics of grown up man like clothe hat and all that. Only his gun with the horse head let us understand that he is still child at heart. Boyd big head contrasting from other characters give us a mind that he got a lot knowledge about life.

Cow Boy is surprisingly dense and boasts darker, heavier themes than most all-ages.  His story including its earth-tone colors, is so effective that it flows from panel to panel and from page to page.  The story is often funny and action packed, and it's great to see Boyd think himself out of a few different dangerous situations.

NYC2123: Dayender review (Chad & Paco Allen)

by Rafael Takara

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The online graphic novel NYC2123: Dayender is set in a near futuristic cyberpunk New York. The story happens in a decadent post-apocalyptic Manhattan in year 2123 where cybernetic body modifications, brain mods, and open source drugs are commonplace. Megacorporation and street gangs fight for their survival in a chaotic Manhattan where Martial Law has been declared and the island have been isolated from the rest of the world by a physical “Wall” after being hit by a Tsunami. This graphic novel has 6 volumes but this review will focus on the first 3 volumes.

The plot revolves around Julius, Laney, and Jake, three mercenaries with cybermodifications, hired by Wagner, a businessman from a secret corporation, to steal an endangered squirrel to a rare animal collector and transport biological vials. But they have to steal it from a warlord mafia and end up in trouble with other mercenaries. The characters motivation and the plot itself take a while to be revealed but the action sequences are intense and well executed. The extensive use of high tech (eg. flying cars, wifi hacking, brain/body augmentations, etc…) and the mercenaries super skills are what make the graphic novel stand out.

The comic book was designed specifically for viewing on PSP portable system. As a result, a single panel per page had to be used to narrate the story so it resulted in a different rhythm than the conventional multiple panels per page as it gives a faster pace to the story. Also, the authors make several uses of interesting moment to moment panel transition that let the action sequence (see example below) feels like an animation.

The backgrounds are generally not overly detailed. On the other hand, the characters artwork were made using photos of real people and then penciled above facial features. The result was that the characters had realistic appearance to create a more interesting characterization. Their emotional reactions could also be captured with this technique.

The comic is entirely in black and white so that the contrast between the two colours and the artwork could be highlighted. In a few sequences though there is the use of colours to give a dramatic effect to the sequence. For example, in the scene below blood is painted red to emphasize violence of the scene. Fire was painted yellow to give explosion sensation on the viewer. Colour is used in minimal ways but in key moments to give emotional impact on the viewer or to highlight a detail.

Overall, NYC2123 is an interesting online graphic novel read if the reader enjoys a cyberpunk tale with themes of advanced science, high tech, dystopic future, and megacorporation conflicts. It is worth noting the photorealism used on the characters art.