“Yesterday’s” Comic> Fathom: Beginnings vol 2 #1

“I think we used the wrong lightbulb.”

Michael Turner’s Fathom: Beginnings vol 2 #1

Aspen MLT (digital copy–February, 2011)

WRITERS: J.T. Krull & Michael Turner (creator)

PENCILER: Koi Turnbull

INKER: Jason Gorder

COLORIST: Christina Strain

LETTERING: Dreamer Design

DIGITAL EDITORS: Frank Mastromauro & Vince Hernandez

A flash of light the night before isn’t the only strange thing a cruise ship has been exposed to. In the morning a naked eleven-year-old girl is found in the ship, unable to speak and scared. The captain gets a passenger, Navy Captain Matthews, to reach out to her. When she goes to wash her face, she has a brief flash of memory as the woman she became narrates how she was part of the Blue and escaped her parents’ murderer. While the memory fades her voice returns and she tells the captain her name: Aspen.

This is only a nine-page preview, but it still manages to be a complete story, showing how Aspen ended up on the surface, being adopted, and giving us a hint of her powers. The art is really good and the coloring is amazing. I’m kind of jealous of the coloring skills after looking at my own stuff. Being so short there’s no room for any objections beyond how the double splash page ends up formatted digitally. It does a good job of introducing a newcomer to the main Fathom series, and better than some of the other previews I’ve reviewed in this series recently.

This is one of the good comics to introduce yourself to the Fathom universe.