“It’s happening all around the world. Things that aren’t where they’re supposed to be slipping free of the confines of their containers, all signaling the advent of one event in particular.”
Xombi #1 has some mysterious forces seeping into the world. The initial signals may seem small, but it appears to be pointing to something bigger that is coming. When these signals set off alarm bells for those who monitor the super natural, the call is sent out to David Kim, Xombi.
David Kim was a medical researcher who has been infested with nanomachines. These nanomachines keep David young, and in peak physical condition. His body is super efficient so that he doesn’t produce waste, he doesn’t get sick, old, drunk, or fat. The nanomachines also gives him the ability of molecular reconstruction, allowing him to turn one object into something else. Although In this issue he only shows that he can do it with small scale objects. And in David’s words, this makes him an”immortal weirdness magnet.”
So David is sent to a secret prison beneath Dakota to make sure that the prisoner kept in the green house doesn’t escape. Its a cryptic message, but you can feel that its serious. The prison is said to be under the care of The Church, and when David arrives there he is met by a few of The Church’s agents, Nun Of The Above, Nun The less, Catholic Girl, and Father Maxwell.
Locked in the basement of a larger building, the prison is a village of houses that have been shrunk down to the size of doll houses. Yet they keep their mass so that they are just as strong as when they were full size. The prisoners are shrunk down to 1:18 scale and kept in the miniature prison.
Nun The Less uses her power to shrink down and goes in to investigate the prison. She finds that all of the prisoners have been brutally murdered, except for the prisoner in the green house. He’s missing. David now learns that the prisoner was James Church, who was infected by a copy of “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” This caused him to develop a Hyde personality of his own.
While Kim is trying to get a handle on this information they are attacked by a trio of ghostly aberrations. Father Maxwell seems to die of horror while Catholic Girl generates a force field to protect her and the two nuns, and David engages the ghosts. And while these ghost have given the group a little freight, the rear horror in yet to come.
This is a cool comic book. John Rozum writes the story of weird happenings and mystery. I like that everything isn’t being fed to you right up front and that things are being revealed as you read along. I like that its a little cryptic and mysterious. And this issue gives you a sense that there is a lot going on in this world. Some of it might be peripheral to the main story, and everything isn’t examined in depth, but it adds a lot of texture to the story. Rozum has created a weird and interesting world that is inhabited by weird and interesting characters.
The art is does an incredible job of feeding this story. Frazier Irving handles all of the art on the comic, with Dave Sharpe doing the lettering. This issue is excellently rendered and has good story telling. The thing that is really going ot stand out to you is the coloring. The different places are colored with a different over all hue. Some scenes are colored so that everything has a yellow cast to it, and some are cat in a green, blue or purple. This really adds to the work and helps to create some stunning visuals. It also helps to create the unworldly feeling of this comic book.
Xombi was created by the late Dwayne McDuffie during his days with Milestone Media. And this issue is a great tribute to what he added to the world of comic books. Xombi #1 has an interesting setting with a lot goiong on around it. The characters are unique. And the artwork is awesome. The little story and reveal at the end is creepy and has me wanting the next issue. This is a cool, weird, unique comic book that you should be reading.
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