Okay, I really
wanted to pace myself on writing this review.
The Reset is another book that I had backed on Kickstarter. This was actually a book that I had been
looking forward to for a long time, as it promised a “comic of high concept sci-fi action,
time travel and corporate espionage!” Well, let’s dive
right in.
The Reset
is brought you us by: Writer: Matt Kund -
Artist: Kevin Zimmerman -
Colorist: Ertan Ceyhan -- Editor/Letterer: Noah Ray
The world
is about experience a catastrophic event.
A scientist, Mr. Crais, has discovered some sort of time travel/teleportation
that will allow him to “reset” the world to a certain point in history to essentially
save the human race. The Reset follows James,
Mr Crais’s former partner, and James’ team as they try to stop Mr. Crais and
his plan, which is to allow the rich and powerful of the world to maintain their
wealth and power after the “reset” for a fee of 20%.
***Maybe Some
SPOILERS Below***
On the first
page of the book, right away, I am intrigued.
The artwork sets a somber mood for the situation at hand, and in five
panels and less than ten words, I already want to know more about the world
that this book is based in. Unfortunately,
things get a little choppy from here on out.
We meet the main character, James, as he heads into work. What he does for a living is as much of a
mystery to us as is what the world he lives in. James rescues a homeless child from being beat
up by some looters inside James’ place of work.
James decides that the child can make it up to him by cleaning some labs. Kind of strange, but I assume that this will
be a fun Indiana Jones/Short Round friendship throughout the book. Wrong.
Though the child appears to be part of the “team” in the next few pages
he disappears from the cast faster than he appeared. We do meet James’ female teammate whose name
is… hmm… I don’t think they ever mention
her name anywhere. Anyway, the pair is
soon joined by another character named, Alan.
Together, they track Crais’s movements, and try to steal and recreate
Crais’s tech. Meanwhile, Crais is wining
and dining with the rich and famous as they all contend for their spot in the
reset. The story advances pretty fast
for a complex story, and in the end, I’m afraid I really don’t understand what
happens. I’m not sure if the reset
happens, or what James’ team was really trying to accomplish, or if they even
did it.
The artwork
in the Rest is amazing. The colors and
linework are on point and they set the mood for all the scenes. However, I feel like a lot of the story telling
was put on the artists shoulders by the lack of advancing dialogue. The effort was obviously put forward, but in
the end, I was still quite confused on how the story ended.
The story
concept was intriguing; The world is ending, and a miracle breakthrough in science
will allow the human race to survive in the past… but at what point does the world
reset too? Of course, giving one person
the power to decide the fate of the world is going to breed corruption, that plot
device is no surprise. Where I feel the
Reset falls short is their characters.
Short of the first names (at least in most cases) we know extraordinarily
little about the cast other than they are super smart and sneaky. Okay, we at least also know that James was
previously partners with Crais, but what they actually did together, and what
caused them to break their partnership is a complete mystery. On top of that, James and team’s plan isn’t
exactly clear either. It’s clear that they
are capable of infiltrating Crais’s labs undetected, so if stopping him was the
plan, I’m not sure why they couldn’t do that with the skills that they possess.
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