Written by Arvid NelsonArt by Matt Camp
Apparently it's Arvid Nelson week at Dark Horse, as Zero Killer finally returns to the shelves, something like two years after the last issue was published.
Zero Killer is an alternative history comic from Nelson; in this case, nuclear bombs exploded in New York back in the seventies, flooding the city, and causing a lot of deaths. Any survivors have moved into the top levels of the few remaining sky scrapers, and they eke out a violent and miserable existence.
Zero, a mysterious young man, spends his time attempting to build a boat and sail to Africa. He's run across the path of a girl named Stark, and has been given the mission of retrieving a briefcase from a downed helicopter for a group of Sudanese government guys, in return for passage to Sudan. In this issue, Zero has to infiltrate the Twin Towers (where he has some history), and fight a bunch of Beyond Thunderdome gangster kids.
This comic has always read quite smoothly, and has gorgeous art from Matt Camp. It's a little difficult to pick up on this half way through the run, and I wonder what kind of sales Dark Horse can expect after such a long hiatus. Regardless, this is a good comic, and should read quite well when it is published as a trade.
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