Resurrection Vol. 2 #1

Written by Marc Guggenheim
Art by Justin Greenwood
I really enjoyed the first volume of Resurrection. It showed a world recovering from ten years of occupation by an alien race, but focused more on the personalities of its individual characters, as one group attempted to travel through their blighted world, and as others attempted to gain control of government, for personal gain.

This new volume has all of those elements again, only in colour. In this issue, we follow a small group of survivors as they argue a lot, get attacked by Road Agents (I've always loved that term), Burns, and eventually find their way to one of the characters from the first series.

I can imagine that new readers might be a little confused by the settings and pace of this book, but hopefully they are intrigued by the story - it's very reminiscent of The Walking Dead to me, only with bug aliens instead of zombies.

The art is serviceable - it's not amazing yet, but the potential is there. It does look good in colour. None of the aliens appear in this issue - I'm curious to see how Greenwood draws them, as they looked quite cartoony in the first volume.

If you haven't read any of this series yet, go get the trade. It's only $6 for the first 6 issues, plus the annual, making it the bargain of the year. It's also a very very good comic.