Writer: Kieron Gillen
Illustrator: Caan White
Inks: Keith WIlliams
Colors: Digikore Studios
Letters: Kurt Hathaway
Publisher: Avatar Press, Inc.
On Sale: May 6, 2013
Price: $3.99
Format: Full Color
Kieron Gillen’s World War II epic rages on. The German Ubermensch have arrived, delivered to Hitler in the dying days of the war. Outmatched, the Allies encounter the first superhuman soldiers with deadly consequences. But deep within the ranks of scientists for the Reich, one woman holds the key to the Allies obtaining their own super soldiers. She must escape a re-surging German military and evade the ranks of living weapons which now occupy the war-front.
First let me just say, it has taken me a couple weeks to get up the courage to read this book. Why? My father was a WWII veteran who fought for his homeland, was captured three times by the Germans and escaped three times. He saw friends and loved ones die and suffered his own wounds during the war. So I was afraid of what I would find when I opened the book.
Kieron has done what he said in the “letter” at the end of the book. “As much as it’s possible for a book like Über to be respectful, I need it to be respectful (and I was always aware that may be impossible, at least in some people’s eyes). It’s about WW2, not using WW2.”
Without having read issue #0 it did take me a little bit to understand what was happening. However, the story is well told and Kieron Gillen manages for the most part to keep the reader from getting lost as it shifts from one nation in the war to another. The concept puts a bit of a twist on some of what Hitler was attempting.
While the art was dark and even a bit graphic, Caanan White manages to keep it in tune with the story the art portraying.
I have yet to decide if I will pick up the next issue considering the topic is a painful one as it brings thoughts of my father who I miss. But if I don’t continue it won’t be for any failing of Gillen or White’s part.
Final Score: 7/10
