Mike Mignola's sketches are transformed into an unbelievably odd and oddly cool story in Radio Spaceman 1. Read our full review here:
Going into a new comic series blind often has mixed results since you have limited expectations, if any, about what's coming, but you often at least finish the first chapter with a decent idea of what's going on. Radio Spaceman #1 from Mike Mignola takes a different approach, however, by reveling in missing context.
Radio Spaceman himself is unsurprisingly the perfect example of this phenomenon. The character consists of a skeleton in a spacesuit, and he's drawn in a cartoonish way – consisting of a floating head within protective gear that's adorned with everything from a medal and a sledgehammer to a utility belt and a lightbulb.
Dialogue is just as absent as context in some cases—Radio Spaceman isn't exactly the talkative sort—so without those elements, we're left with the artwork to tell the story. Radio Spaceman's alien world is both by-the-books spacefaring with vivid colors and species that defy expectations, but it's also a refreshing deviation in other ways. Space travels in stories often consist of sleek, minimal ships with doors that go"woosh" and hologram expected everywhere.
Another element sometimes overlooked but specifically deserving of praise in Radio Spaceman #1 are the sound effects that pop off nearly every page. These dangling onomatopoeias which are staples of most comics sometimes blend in with the background between quips, but in a story like this one that relies so much on environmental storytelling, they carry a lot of weight.
By the end of the first chapter, we still don't know a ton about Radio Spaceman himself, but we know it's a good thing he's around both in the context of this story and in general, too. A particularly captivating panel towards the end shows our protagonist armed with only his hammer against a horde of aliens, not as a hardened combatant but instead with a"here we go again" stance.
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