How exciting is this? A brand new character, and a brand new series. Starting from scratch, and by none other than Terry Moore . . doing the writing and the art. Fan-frikkin-tastic! Or as they say on Battlestar, "Frakkin-A!" It's been almost a year since Strangers ended. And I've really missed Terry's view of things. And as usual, he starts out by leaving us guessing as to just what's going on and why. We start out with this girl, Annie, doing a test flight for, what I assume, is the military. She's got some kind of high-tech suit on, with a jet pack strapped on the back. She's flying all over the sky, giving it a run-down, enjoying the view and generally having a fantastic time doing her job. Well, whoever's controlling this test decides to amp it up a bit and puts a jet in the air that fires missiles at her. "Foster! What the hell?". "I think the suit can take the hit, Annie.", is what she hears over her headset. "Yeah? How about testing that when I'm not in it?!" She actually does really good. She evades the missiles for a little while, and then tries to put some altitude between her and them. She reaches about 18,000 feet when she start to have a panic attack. She stops to see if she's far enough . . . and they're on top of her. "KABOOOM!", and the sky's lit up like there's a second sun. Well our lead character, whom we haven't met yet, Julie, happens to be underneath the test sight doing some nature photography. She sees the explosion, the smoke cloud and the jet flying off. But what she doesn't understand is the hail-like objects that are falling down on top of her. They're a little smaller than dime-sized, but the troubling part is that they're not bouncing. They're sticking to everything they hit . . Julie . . her truck. She jumps in her truck and speeds away, after trying to remove one of the pieces from her face. But in doing so . . it explodes like a fire-cracker. A General and a scientist show up to examine the debris. "Clearly the viscoelasticity of the suit is similar to an inorganic polymer. Hmm. I'm no rheologist but, I'd say we may have just created the thixotropic liquid of nuclear weaponry.", is the scientist observation. "In English, Foster.", replys the General. "Silly Putty, General Cade. It appears the supercritical conditions of the explosion turned the suit into Silly Putty. Our on bomb . . . is now many." Clearly our girl Julie has accidentally waded in to the deep end of the pool. But her troubles aren't over yet. She looks at her truck, and finds, in the back-end, a piece of what looks to be fabric. She takes it in the house to examine it, and while listening to her answering machine, the piece comes in contact with her shoulder. All the little pieces on her body start bursting and attaching themselves to the piece. Next thing she knows, her shoulder and half her chest is covered in what looks like a liquid uniform. This is just the beginning. I'm so glad Terry Moore is back on the scene. He did some work for Marvel in the interim. But I think he does his best stuff on characters that he creates. Also, it's a fantastic cover. You can't tell from the picture, but the logo, and all the pellets dropping down are foil embossed. It makes for a really nice effect. Welcome back Terry! I can't wait to see more.
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