Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Jeremiah Harm - Weekly Update #6

I'm sorry, but I haven't been able to collect any news this past week that I could even pretend was Jeremiah Harm related. So instead, I'm going to summarise the first issue of Jeremiah Harm for those of you not sure whether to pick it up yet. This is mainly a summary, so there will be spoilers, keep that in mind.
If there's any other slow news week in the future (which I'm sure there will be) I'll summarise the next issues as well, along with my thoughts on them.


The first issue of Jeremiah Harms starts off not with Jerry, but with a woman named Ayoma Skiver. She's a reptilian inmate in a prison filled with intergalactic scum. She helps another inmate, a male reptilian called Dak* Moira escape. They obviously have history together, but it's not entirely clear what it is.


Upon escaping the prison with the help of *'PLOSIONS* (as seen above), the prison warden has to figure out how to get Dak and Ayoma back without getting into trouble himself. This is where Jerry comes in. He's an inmate at the same prison, and is the one who originally brought in Dak. He's the perfect man to get Dak, though the warden's got some suspicious plans to get Jerry to agree.


We meet up again with Dak and Ayoma at a distant world, Dak's fiddling with a device called a bumper (it's basically a stargate) which they will use to escape. They go to a backwater, mudball filled with primitives. No advance technology is there, no stargate bumper to bring them back. And what are they going to do there exactly? Well, isn't it obvious? They're going to destroy it. Like any good comic book villian.

Meanwhile, at the other end of the galaxy, Jerry has left prison and is questioning the local wild life on a Las Vegas like planet, and by questioning I of course mean killing everyone there till someone tells him where his informant is. Yup. 
When he finally finds Fusti** Bomba, he learns that Dak is most likely off to a mudball, backwater planet. A planet designated 49. A planet known to the inmates of Jerry's prison as Earth.


And that's pretty much it. That's what happens in the first issue. It's more or less the promo that Vuorensola and his team filmed this autumn, with some obvious changes. Most likely due to having to fit as much of the character set-up as possible in a very short amount of time. 

I like this comic book, it's good fun. I like the fact that there really aren't any humans/terrans around except for Jerry, and that everyone else are a pretty wide range of reptilian like creatures.There's some stuff I can't really understand why are happening, but I think that's more due to the fact that this is the very first issue of a six-issue series. Things will be revealed as we go a long, and maybe we'll even get a clearer image of what the film will be about. 


I got all six issues of the comic on BOOM! Studios own iPad app, where each issue costs 99 cents (USD). And I would highly recommend you read it in preparation for the 2014 film. 


Oh, and I almost forgot. MOWR 'PLOSIONS!

(Yeah, this is gonna be fun.)



*Mentioned in the promo
**Seen in the promo


Epilogue:
There are now 111 submissions for the 1,000,000 aliens needed campaign. I think the first wave has pretty much ended now, the people who got immediately inspired have handed in their stuff. Now we wait for the people who need a bit more to get inspired, and hopefully, they'll have some pretty awesome stuff as well.
The promo is now at 126,768 views and going strong!


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