From Image Comics, Jeff Roenning, Jean-Paul Bonjour, Robert Love, Diana Shukartsi, Diego Simone, Drew Gill, and Branwyn Bigglestone.

 

Remember when the fan made “Saturday Morning Watchmen” cartoon went viral?  And we all thought, boy wouldn’t it be funny to take a very serious comic and make it for kids.  That is the simplest way I could put Alpha Girl #1, but its so much more.

First off, stick with this book.  As someone who has read thousands of comics over decades of time I can tell you with experience, there are things in this first issue that you don’t realize are here yet.  Sure on the surface it seems like the classic tale.  The story of a young woman narrating her childhood with drug addict parents, the fall of society, and her current life warring against zombies. Its a legend we’ve been told a thousand times.

The cartoony style of the book is misleading.  There are adult themes on every page, some real deep messed up things going on.  However, because of the bright colors and thick lines it seems easier to handle.  Judith (the Alpha Girl) is somehow simultaneously hard core and adorable.  Her brother, Buddy, is much less of one and more of another.  We assume she is the hero of this story but what of her brother?  Is he the villain, or the one to be redeemed? This alone is reason to keep reading the book.

But then we meet the researchers!  The two scientists guilty of creating this virus as a by product of perfume/pheromone research.  They are not perfect, but not evil either.  In a horror story that looks like a cartoon it is only safe to assume that nothing is black and white nor as simple as it seems.

I’ll be sticking with Alpha Girl for at least the next year.