Ryder on the Storm #3

Ryder on the Storm #3
Radical Comics
Written by David Hine
Art by Wayne Nichols & Hugo Petrus

This was an interesting read for me. Like some of my other reviews, I was just handed this book to review and wasn’t sure what happened in the first two books. As you may have guessed, this was the climax of the story and there’s one word that I can use to describe the final battle, gooey (you’ll understand when you read it). Just to give you a quick back story without blowing the whole thing for you, Ryder has figured out that he’s one of the alien race and he needs to stop the queen mother anyway he can. He still is getting help from Monk and has to figure out how to finish the job. I don’t want to give too much away; I really did like the premise of the story.

Now, this is the sixth or seventh book from Radical that I’ve reviewed and they have a certain style to them; that comes across in this book both for the art and the story telling. Most of the time, like in this book, it does work. The story flows and they tell you what’s going on in Ryder’s head when you need to know (like when he’s trying to rationalize something while saying something else). The art is detailed just enough to have a good feel but still give you the feeling that something’s just not right. Things just worked on this book, whether by plan or luck, I can’t say.

This book shows that when you have a good company putting good faith in their writers, artists and everyone, you’ll get a good product. This book was well written and makes me want to know what happened in the first two books. I’ll give you the heads up that this is not for young children, again, figure teens and above. In my humble opinion, get the first two before reading this then get this. I give it 3.5 caps out of 5.