Red Spike

Red Spike #3 of 5
Image Comics
Written by Jeff Cahn
Art by Salvador Navarro & Mark Texeria

I just finished reading Red Spike from Image. The story follows a soldier who joined a secret research project to make him a better soldier. He joins others and begins training and has an operation done that boosts all of his natural responses to situations. It increases his strengths and senses and just about everything you can think of is better. In the meantime, One of his teammates goes rogue the former soldier is sent out to capture him and bring him back to base. Then, all the fun happens because more information comes out about what’s going on.

Let me start with the art and go from there. The art was really well done. The characters have their own looks and feel to them but there are times that you can get a little mixed up on who’s who; the background and tones really come through. The paneling is not overdone and don’t clutter a page and move the story along. Now, we get to the writing. To me, everything jumped around and not because they are doing flashbacks. It was a little difficult to follow the story at times. Some points, I felt lost. Of course, this could be due to me getting the third book, first.

The story has been done but I did like where everything was going. I interested in seeing what happened in the first two issues. As I said, this could change my opinion on the writing. Reading through this, you can see what’s happening in this series, happening in real life (giving it more debth). In my humble opinion, get the first two of this issue before getting this one; you’ll most likely have a better idea of what’s going on. I give this 3.0 caps out of 5.