I know there’s an airline joke I should be making right now.
In-Flight Service #1
About Time Comics (2014)
STORY: Lee Jiles & Peter McLeod (writer)
ARTIST: Youmin Park
COVER PENCILER: Oski Yanez
COVER INKER: Eric Dotson
COVER COLORIST: Nate Tingen
FRONT COVER ART: Neil Chenier
LOGO DESIGN: Eric Bowen
Airline stewardess Callie is at a cafe with her friend when she notices someone odd. Driven to investigate she is far enough away from a bomb to survive, but her friend isn’t so lucky. Now she’s hunting for the man behind the bombing, while so is are the authorities because the man who hired the bomber is part of a plan to hunt agents. One wants to restart the “IFS” and after Callie manages to find one of the men they’re mutually after, he comes to her with a job offer.
What they got right: The full concept is an airline stewardess using her job to hunt down villains. That does sound like an interesting premise. Points for finding the enemy lair and then ramming a truck into the building to reach the boss! That was actually pretty cool.
What they got wrong: Self-defense training might work on a bunch of unlucky stiffs in a bar who approach her the wrong way (she does get called out for it since they didn’t really deserve it but triggered her PTSD), but how is she able to fight a bunch of thugs off? The other agent we follow seems to recognize her but we’re clearly missing scenes because I couldn’t tell you either agent’s name and it seems like a bunch of jumping forward. I had to reread it to figure a few parts out. I miss proper narration.
What I think overall: I like the idea, but this is the only issue on Drive Thru Comics, free or paid. The publisher’s website store does have more issues in print as well as the Godhead comics I looked at the last two weeks, but I didn’t see enough here to really get myself invested.
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