One of the awesome things about quarter and fifty cent boxes are little gems like this one. When at my shop's Toy and Comic Fair I found Pulse of Power, a $7.99 dollar book when it came out new, for fifty cents. I knew zero about this book. I have never read Anne Elizabeth's work that I know of for sure. I do read a bunch of anthologies of supernatural or paranormal romance so it is possible. I only knew that the character had to be a magical red head. So I bought it. If she had held a sword in her hand there would not even had been a hesitation.
It is really well done. It has a world where magic is around the real world but hidden. Those with magic have rules to follow and evil stuff can skirt around from what I gathered. Tia, the main character uses her meager abilities to hunt the bad magic users and eliminate them. Here though we see her dealing with strange dreams and there are three dudes casting spells concerning her.
She has a best friend that plays heavy into the story. There is a cop love interest that goes no where. The big bad is gruesome enough and looks funny in the three piece suit. The magic building where Tia works is really cool. There are many crazy looking beings that are in and out of the place. Best way to describe it is by comparing it to the arrival and departure area in Men In Black. Just a mish-mash of weirdness.
It was a good buy. Apparently there is a second book that came out in Oct. of 2011. The link for PULSE OF POWER has a link to the next book. I will be watching for it in the long boxes at HeroesCon.
BDS
People probably think the only books to come out right now are DC's New 52. It is genius in a marketing sense to have the dominating releases of an entire month. it has opened up a few possibilities for me. I have paid for the month in advance and I can try out a few books because I have the cash to check them out. One of those books is Warehouse 13.
I almost missed the fact that this book was coming out. I think I saw it online somewhere in a mention of new releases that people do. I asked for it to be placed on the old pull list and had it there when I had the big stack of DCnU. I love the show. I have to watch it on Hulu.com because we do not have cable or satellite. Getting a comic was just a nice surprise.
Sadly, this is not a comic with any wow factor. If you want a story like the show, then you will be happy. There is a good use of the medium by having and artifact that can earthquake an entire city out of existence. It is an international tale that is worthy of the original format. Plus Pete talks Myka into a teeny tiny Carnivale costume. To be fair, he runs around with his shirt off and Myka looks like Myka still, no breast enlargement for the sake of sales. Really the scenes with her in them dressed like this are muted. She was being encouraged to sidle up to the suspect and try to get his attention with her feminine wiles. Could have been played for some humor, but that missed that chance.
I am not giving up, but with the cost of comicbooks, they had better get a bit better than just good real fast. It is a good story and a understated first issue.
BDS
