Mara #5 - Review

Mara #5 (of 6)

Publisher:
Image

Publication Date:
June 2013

Writer:
Brian Wood

Art:
Mind Doyle

What Image says about this issue of Mara...

Everything's on the table as far as the military's position on Mara, but who's the one with the nuclear option? How much power can one woman hold before the world says "enough"?

What can I expect from this issue?

A Brian Wood type of superhero comic book. Wood has created a very different type of Superhero in Mara. She has extraordinary powers and has been on a journey to discover exactly how much power she yields. But more than that, Mara is trying to understand what it means to her to hold such power. Wood explores what happens when two powers (Government/Military and Mara) collide. This is a story of power, isolation and threat.

There is a calmness to this issue due to there being little dialogue (mostly narrative) as well as art work that gives the reader a real sense of Mara's space and isolation. Wood and Doyle succeed in providing the reader with a perspective on Mara as a non-typical superhero. Doyle's art really allows the reader to experience Mara's indifference to the people of Earth as she struggles to deal with the power she now has and how it has impacted on those around her (her brother).

This is a clever book and really invites the reader to empathise with Mara's situation. Even though at the end of this issue you know the power she yields presents a danger to others, you still feel Mara is in the right and that those innocents on Earth do deserve what she is about to unleash on them.

Mara is one of those comic books you will read and make sure stays in your permanent comic book collection. I can't wait for the final issue next month. This has been a fantastic comic book series by Brian Wood and Ming Doyle.

So what did others think?

Comic Vine has this to say...and it's all good news...

Comic Vine Review

Newsarama provides a really good insight to this issue and this series...

Newsarama Review

Geeks Unleashed had a little to say about the awesomeness of Mara too...

Geeks Unleashed Review


So what do I give this issue?

9 out of 10 folks. 

C.