Invisible Republic #1 (Corinna Bechko/Gabriel Hardman)

[Dhargo]

Source : CBR



Story by Corinna Bechko, Gabriel Hardman
Art by Gabriel Hardman
Cover by Gabriel Hardman
Publisher Image Comics
Cover Price: $3.50

“INVISIBLE REPUBLIC, is first and foremost a sci-fi, action-adventure story. My background as an illustrator and storyboard artist for films like Inception and the X-Men movies means that designing exciting action sequences is what I do,” said Hardman. “That said, the kind of stories Corinna and I tell are always human-scale. They’re point of view driven, not spectacle driven. Serialized comics, especially creator-owned comics, are the perfect medium for telling stories with real stakes where anything can happen. Any character can die. The audience can’t trust that everything will be happy in the end. Comics are perfect for telling stories that take narrative risks and reward close attention, in short, everything that works so well on cable television dramas now.”

Conceived as the epic history of the rise of an empire, INVISIBLE REPUBLIC is nonetheless told on an intimate scale. While hunting for a human-interest story during a humanitarian crisis, reporter Croger Babb uncovers the four-decade-old journal of Maia Reveron, detailing what she knows about the legendary Arthur McBride. Maia has been erased from all the official histories, but she alone knows what Arthur is really capable of.

Bechko added: "Maia Reveron is a woman who has been expunged from the history books but who knows many secrets. This may be science fiction, but this is hardly an unknown phenomenon in our own world. It's rare that those in power give much thought to the people who could reveal their own 'secret histories,' especially if the people holding the secrets happen to be female. And sometimes, they overlook them at their peril. Gabriel and I have always enjoyed writing 'poli-sci-fi' and here we have the chance to imbue Arthur and Maia's story with all the drama, pathos, and adventure we've been dying to unleash."

[Zen arcade]

Cool.

Image rocks !

[doop]

C'est très joli !

[NRV]

J'aime de plus en plus ce que je vois d'Hardman!

[Jorus C'Baoth]

+1

[Fletcher Arrowsmith]

La première planche est magnifique. Hardman a toujours fait du bon travail. C'est un artiste que les Big Two n'ont pas su bien utiliser.

[scarletneedle]

Bah, il n'a jamais bossé pour DC à ma connaissance!
Ce sont Marvel et Dark Horse ses terrains de chasse.

[Fletcher Arrowsmith]

	Citation:			Posté par scarletneedle
	Bah, il n'a jamais bossé pour DC à ma connaissance!

[Mode non je n'ai pas tort : ON]

Mais si voyons tout le monde se rappelle de son travail sur Weird War Tales (Vol 3) #1 ou sur Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (Vol. 2)

[Mode non je n'ai pas tort : OFF]

[scarletneedle]

Ca doit représenter 10-20 pages! C'est énorme!

[FredGri]

Comme quoi en effet DC n'a pas su déceler le potentiel du gars...
Mais bon, ca nous donne d'autres occasions d'admirer son taff

[scarletneedle]

Bin, il était surtout exclu chez Marvel avant de partir chez Dark Horse pour bosser avec Madame sur Star Wars & Co : les 2 choses qu'il a faites étaient entre 2 contrats.
Ce serait bien de ne pas tout mélanger.

[FredGri]

Exactement ce que je me disais...

[wildcard]

On voit que Hardman a fait ses armes comme storyboarder : ses planches sont toujours superbement composées.

[Al Pennyworth]

Graphiquement superbe, j'ai hate de voir ce que ça donne coté scénario.

[gillesC]

Fluchte. Va falloir laisser tomber une autre série pour compenser...