Damaged #1

Damaged #1
Radical Comics
Written by David Lapham
Art by Leonardo Manco

Here’s an interesting person to put yourself into. Imagine this, you are a soon to be retired police officer named Frank Cassidy. You’ve been getting pressure to solve a growing organized crime problem in your city and it seems you haven’t been doing that good of a job. You’ve met your replacement, a young upstart, who shows how inexperienced he is. Just when you think it can’t get more fun for you, you come up on a crime scene where almost all of a Russian crime family is murdered and burned and it looks too familiar to you. All I have to say is, fun times.

This offering from Radical was really well done. The paneling was easy to follow and allowed the story to flow. Looking at the art, it has the same style as most books from this company, yet they gave it just enough of a different look and a different feel. It still had a city, gritty feel, almost like Cassidy’s life is put on display. Now we come to the writing, the characters jump off the stage. Their voices resonate with you, as if they’re talking to you directly, and I don’t mean because of the thought bubbles.

This is going to be a series of six books (at the moment, you know how comic book companies change that). Reading this, I was able to gather all the important information that I’m going to need in the other books. This was a good read and what could be a good start. I want to know what happens to the new guy coming in, what’s going to happen to Cassidy, where is this story going and all the grittyness of the story that we like. In my humble opinion, this is one you want to get. I give this 4.5 caps out of 5.