Publisher: BLACK MASK
Writer: Curt Pires
Art: Eric Pfeiffer
In the Forevers, seven people take a pact and perform a ritual that brings them the fame and fortune they crave – for a price.
Actually, that isn’t accurate. It might explain the series as a whole, but not this issue. In this issue we briefly see the ritual, jump 10 years into the future and follow the lives of two of the seven. Lives that just happen to be shallow, superficial, very “Hollywood” and filled with random sex and drug use.
There is no plot, no story and nothing really interesting. If you have seen any film about the shallowness of fame – then you have seen this. In fact, the way the emptiness and shallowness of fame is presented is very “Hollywood” itself.
Only on the first and last couple of pages is the supposed occult aspect played upon.
Oh, yes – the dialog. In the first few pages the dialog is absolutely terrible. Hard to read, want to close the book bad.
The painted pages may look stunning – and in many panels they are – but as a whole the art doesn’t hold up. Too much of the book is too dark and murky. This is a neo-noirish story with gothic undertones, and the art is reflective of this.
Any quality of the painted art is lost with how dark it is. So dark that at times it is hard to tell who is doing what. If the dark ambience was toned down a little, the artwork and flow would be improved. As it is, the darkness overwhelms and make the art inaccessible.
Can one call The Forevers edgy? Sure. It will find and audience that laps up sex-filled, drugs crazed stories with the hint of conspiracy. (Oliver stone type stuff.)
Is this first issue good? No. Does it do enough to generate interest to read the next issue? No.
I loved the cover.
FINAL THOUGHTS:
It is not just the characters and lives showcased in this first issue that are shallow and empty, but the story itself is shallow and empty.
RATING: 4
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