Truths & Destinies Part 1
Writer: Ron Marz
Artist: Marco Turini
Colorist: Andy Troy & Bill Farmer
Letterer: Troy Peteri
Editor: Bryan Rountree, Betsy Gonia and Matt Hawkins
Publisher: Top Cow Productions and Image Comics
On Sale: May 1st, 2013
Price: $3.99
Format: Full Color
Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama
Rated: T+/Teen Plus
“TRUTHS & DESTINIES”
Tom Judge and Tilly Grimes are not the only ones that know the hidden truths of the universe. The Catholic Church knows dark realities kept secret from the world and they have agents to protect us from those secrets, whether we want them to… or not. RON MARZ and new artist MARCO TURINI re-introduce one of Top Cow’s most popular characters into the “Rebirth” universe!
I’ve been pondering my reaction to this issue. Where issue 26 left me feeling as though things had not been resolved, issue 27 just made me happy. And then it hit me… Magdalena, that’s what made me so happy. It was a story with one of the characters I had missed. She kicks butt, she’s beautiful and she doesn’t take crap from anybody. That is the only way I can think to put it.
This is the type of story I love when I read Artifacts, fast paced, action packed and with a touch of humor. Ron Marz storytelling shines in this issue as does the art of Marco Turini. It is an issue that makes me truly wish that Turini would be staying on this title to show us just what he can do with all of the characters. He jumped in with both feet and showed that changing artists isn’t always a bad thing for a book. Sometimes the new blood is just what is needed to re-energize things.
Magdalena hasn’t looked this good in … I can’t remember when she last looked this good. Tom Judge comes off the page as the gruff character I have always envisioned him being if he were a real person. Beat down but never defeated, always ready to get back into the fray and not afraid to ask others to do the same. The action scenes had energy that sometimes can be missing when looking at a 2D image. The story moved at a pace that had me on the last page before I knew it and wishing the next issue were coming out today.
Final Score: 9/10
