Red Between the Lines #2
by Joe Price
You know I was thinking before the APA came that I wasn't sure if I was going to have much to write about because not enough happens in one issue to change anything. However, when I got the APA & saw all this new stuff I knew that was not going to be case. I just quit my job so that means I'll have more time to focus on trying my creative hand. Of course, most of that time will be spent looking for a job, not a whole lot more than I was looking for a better job, but still I won't have all day (just half of it).
I am entering a period of my life that is darker than any other thus far. It feels like I'm walking near the edge of a shadow and every time I step into the light it blinds me and I quickly step back into the shadow. Each time I step back into the shadow I go deeper into the darkness.
OK, enough about me let's start the review.
Review:
THE FOOT SOLDIERS #2
Image Comics November 1997
Writer: Jim Krueger
Artists: Phil Hester, Tony Salmon, Scott McDaniel
$2.95 US, $4.30 Can.
O.K., I know since this is an image book it's not exactly small press, but I can hardly tell. This is an excellent title from the superhero genre. The first issue wasn't very good, but I think the reason is the pacing. Jim Krueger tries to get us up to speed on what happened in what was published by Dark Horse.
This issue though is great. It's really realistic and really
gets the reader involved. This book takes place about 50 years from now in a time when manned robots "keep the peace", they act as police. These robots and there operators are called B.T.L. for Bio Technic Law but when spoken they usually say beetle.
The problem is that the world is completely poverty stricken and the B.T.L. merely oppress further. All the heroes were killed a couple of generations before. An old man chooses 3 kids to become the new heroes.
Their primary objective is to end the B.T.L.'s reign of terror. One of the Foot soldiers has a girlfriend who is a B.T.L., but at the beginning of # 2 she quits the B.T.L. and joins the Foot Soldiers (that conflict between her and her boyfriend I wish he had played out longer) and takes the name Wallflower. While the Foot soldiers are training, Wallflower's best friend who is a B.T.L. finds them ties them up and tries to prove the 3 boys are deceiving the people, that they're not really heroes like they claim to be; but she does not succeed. Then Wallflower finishes untying herself and shows that this friend who ambushed them is just as afraid of what the B.T.L.'s are doing and she goes unconscious (another thing I wish he would have played out longer). Then there's another large story in this issue that shows how self-righteous so many religious leaders are. Trying to bribe one of the Foot soldiers to be healed and young again while they let a young girl in their service suffer, starving.
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