Radiant Black, Vol. 1 by Kyle HigginsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
When Nathan Burnett hits rock bottom and has to move back in with his parents, he finds a strange orb and becomes Radiant Black, a cosmic super hero...
Radiant Black sparked my interest when I first saw the costume on twitter but I don't buy single issues anymore so I had to wait an eternity and a day before I finally got the trade, containing issues 1-6.
The book is a lot more complex than my teaser indicates but I don't want to spoil too much. The first couple issues are pretty standard, establishing the hero and his powers, etc. The pace was more Bronze Age than most modern books so I was into it. The whole "Writing Day" issue felt like a misstep.
Some serious shit happens not long after that and I now I'm all in on the book. The writing is above average, some quips but not enough to undermine the action. Higgins led me off by the hand and then pantsed me and took my lunch money, a great quality in a writer.
The art is computer colored but not obnoxiously so. It's a good looking book but not too flashy. The use of perspective and panel design is pretty fantastic, though.
It took a couple issues but it looks like I'm following another current comic. Radiant Black. Buy it. Read it. Four out of five stars.
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