Do A Powerbomb: Black & White #1
Creative Team
writer/artist: DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON
letterer: RUS WOOTON
publisher: IMAGE COMICS
Turn on the pay-per-view, Daniel Warren Johnson and Mike Spicers award winning limited series Do a Powerbomb is back, and you can have it in any colour you want as long as it’s black.
You don’t just spot a DWJ comic on the wall, you feel its presence there. DWJ comics have three distinct ingredients: Bombastic artwork, a rich emotional core, and visceral feel-it-through-the-page action. Do A Powerbomb has them all in spades and they’re Michelin star quality.
Lona Steelrose is following in her mothers footsteps, attempting to make something of herself in the professional wrestling scene. But it’s not so easy when you’re contaminated meat, with Lona’s mother dying in the ring, no promoter, or trainer is going to touch her.
Enter the guitar shredding, tournament hosting, full-time necromancer Willard Necroton and his promise of raising her mother from the grave if she can win the tag-team tourney thrown by him.
The book is so fast-paced it can be hard to keep track of what the hell is going on and that's not a bad thing. Every page is exciting, or poignant in ways that comic about a wrestling through a tournament in hell shouldn’t be! Comic books lie open at night in bed and dream about being this comic book!
So what makes the black & white edition different? Well each issue is bigger, and Mike Spicer's incredible visual palette has been taken away. But now, nothing can hide, the action, the emotion, the twists, they are all laid bare. You get to take a peak behind the curtain and see what Spicer had to work with and it’s no surprise the original run came out looking as incredible as it does.
The book still soars as high as Cobrasun, and can crash down on you just as hard, the gut punches feel like a rollercoaster stopping mid divebomb. The opening sequence alone could be its own comic and it would be a struggle to find a better one in recent years. It's hard to say more, every fibre in your being screams at you to tell people, “just read it” instead of listening to a recounted tale.
Final Verdict
Do a Powerbomb is still a must read. The black and white version is just as loud, just as brutal and just as powerful. So really, not much has changed, and why would it need to?
| Criteria | Score |
|---|---|
| Writing | 10 |
| Story/Plot | 10 |
| Art/Line Work | 10 |
| Colors | 10 |
| Final Score | 10/10 |
