Wayward #1
Publisher: Image
Writer: Jim Zub
Artist: Steven Cummings
Release Date: 8/27/2014, ongoing series
Imagine if your parents divorced and you moved to a new country to live with one of them. Culture shock right? I bet a lot of you have experienced that.
Now imagine that you are attacked by giant turtles (think evil ninja turtles), and saved by a mysterious girl. A girl who won’t explain anything and quickly disappears after you buy her a milkshake. I bet that part hasn’t happened to you (if it has contacted me NOW!).
That is Rori Lane’s life, a half-Irish, half-Japanese teenager who has moved to Japan to live with her mother. She can somehow see odd red lines tell her where to go . . . Odd.
First thing out of the way: Wayward is a beautifully rendered book. Art, inks and colors are superb. The art style is a mix of traditional ‘western,’ or ‘American’ style, and manga style. Neither style overwhelms the other. The balance between them is near perfect.
The writing . . . hmm, this is where I see that some people may be down on Wayward. That is not because the writing is bad, but because this isn’t an epic, earth shattering first issue. You know what? It doesn’t have to be.
This #1 introduces the main character, gives us a journey she is on, gives us a resolution to that initial journey and starts Rori on a path to a new journey. This issue does everything that it needs to.
This is another solid start to another Image series. This is getting to be a habit with them.
Rating: 6.5
Ace Masters
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