Rock the Vote!
Top Cow wants you to pick which Pilot Season book continues
Top Cow wants you to pick which Pilot Season book continues
Nov. 17, 2010 -- Top Cow is pretty serious about its 'Pilot Season' project, where it publishes different new comics and lets the readers pick which ones will continue. So serious, in fact, that they have let me post all five of 2010's Pilot Season books online -- for free.
That's right, you can read 7 Days From Hell, 39 Seconds, Asset, Crosshair and Forever for free, free, free right here on the site. Then, if you've a mind, vote for the one you like best. And you're not limited to a single vote. As they say in Chicago, "vote early, vote often." And you can do it RIGHT HERE.
Here are the books, located conveniently in our Comics News section:
And for the complete explanation, here's the Top Cow press release. Don't delay, as voting ends Nov. 30 -- and that's when I have to take the comics down.
Comments
CapNewsboy!Evidently voters crashed the system, and that's why you couldn't get in. So it must be working. And Top Cow has extended the voting, which is really cool, because posters on this thread have guided me to things I want to read!
I hated Forever. It took way too long to move on to the surprise--which didn't surprise me. Saw it coming a mile off. All the stuff leading up to that point was dull. The art was so-so at best. I have no interest in reading more.
Unlike Luke, I thought The Asset's sexual manipulation was intriguing and dynamic. I was hooked on page one. The art was terrific, the plot was thrilling, and the characters believable.
So which of the five would I vote for? Well, I would vote for The Asset except that Top Cow's website says that the polls are closed. The press release said you could vote until November 30 but that seems to be untrue.
7 Days from Hell: I found the action brutal. I've a feeling I should be able to name the actors the two leads were modelled after. The demon lady is really superbly depicted, with as much personality as an actress would bring to the part.
39 Minutes: I mostly read the stories without enlarging the art, and I had to enlarge that of this one to get what you didn’t like about it. I found the tale less of a fantasy story than the others, which I thought a strength. It’s another brutal story, but in stands apart from the others in that in it the violence is almost entirely committed by the bad guys, and they mostly get away with it.
Crossfire: I suspect this one was inspired by the Jason Bourne movies, which I haven’t seen. (I did see the Richard Chamberlain mini way back when.) I like premises involving a collision between identities, so I found that aspect of the comic very appealing. But I’m not sure it’s what the story’s supposed to be about. I didn’t like the mall sequence as it made the protagonist look like a super-terrorist. I couldn’t make head or tail out of what the manipulating character was up to.
Forever: I found this one the odd man out of the group, less of an action thriller and more of a horror story. I thought the art stylish and suited to the material, and the concluding imagery, with the gang walking away in those masks, really striking.
Asset: The comic’s sexual manipulation plot is a type of story that isn’t interesting to me, and it didn’t win me over.
*It is 39 Minutes, not 39 Seconds.