Whenever a new Rick Remenber comic book series is released it is automatically added to my pull list. This is not to say that I’ve gotten into all of Remember’s work but he has shown to have a great batting average with his comic books. The fantasy genre is not my favorite type of stories to read so based on the information released on Remender’s and Max Fiumara’s The Sacrificers I’m not sure this will be a winner for me. Now thanks to Image Comics I’ve been able to read an advance copy The Sacrificers #1. Find out how the newest comic book from Remender and Fiumara turns out with our advance review of The Sacrificers #1.
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Max Fiumara
Colorist: Dave McCaig
SOLICITATION
“Tomorrow is a harmonious paradise thanks to five families who make everything perfect…for the price of one child per household. Now, as that bill comes due, a son expected to give everything for a family that never loved him and an affluent daughter determined to destroy utopia must unite to end one generation’s unnaturally protracted reign.” – Image Comics
REVIEW
When building a new world, the comic books I most appreciate are those that trust their character building to world build. That is something that shines through with The Sacrificers #1. Rick Remender and Max Fiumara have trust in their ability to create narratives around their two leads in The Sacrificers that the world building will come from that.
Going with this approach does not mean The Sacrificers #1 is a perfect comic book. But what Remender and Fiumara accomplish is to get you to understand and want to follow where the narratives of two distinct characters will be. Each of our leads’ starts from completely different positions. These positions give you the opportunity to experience two different angles of the same story.
Though they are coming from what appears to be the same story from two angles the running theme we see play out is that of parental support. With one character we see how they try to survive through physical abuse in being treated as the black sheep of the family by their father. Then the other is an emotional rebuff of the worth their work is providing their family. The former is the big extreme and a focus to position the character as a lead you care about. But even if there is a bit more of a focus on one character the time given to both is handled well enough.
Fiumara also does a great job at adjusting in the artwork to display the two different locations we see in The Sacrificers #1. This allows all the character designs to stand out even more distinct. They are reflective of their setting. And given the tease of other settings possibly being explored in the future I’ll be interested to see the imagination that goes into the other settings we will see in The Sacrificers.
FINAL THOUGHTS
The world building done by Rick Remender and Max Fiumara through what appears to be our two leads for The Sacrificers #1 is handled well. It’s a world you’re experiencing through these leads rather than being given a dictionary of a mythology explained to you. Continuing this direction will make future issues even better than this debut as we discover more about The Sacrificers world.
Story Rating: 7 Night Girls out of 10
Art Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
Overall Rating: 7.5 Night Girls out of 10