4 out of 5

I wish I could do podcasts.  There’s interesting stuff out there.  I’ve been able to do weekly, popcorn TV because you have two signals – visual and aural – which I can switch off between while I do something else.  Podcasts, though, you only have the one – aural – which ends up meaning you have to pay attention; if you miss the cues, you can’t fall back on looking at pictures to catch you up.  I tried doing podcasts while doing something mindless, like running, but it turns out I don’t treat those tasks mindlessly.

Anyhow, I made it through several episodes of Sayer, the building narrative of things-gone-wrong on the proposed idyllic Typhon, very much things to the eponymous AI sorta running the joint, and I wish I had the podcast-ability to listen to more.

A comic book series, though?  Yessir!  That I can do!  And with this intro issue, recounting a passenger to Typhon awakened from cryo-sleep, I do hope the operative word is ‘series.’  As illustrated by Jonas Goonface (very reminiscent of Jim Lawson, who did another Sayer book), this short tale strips the story of some of its dark humor – and I actually prefer it that way – to allow Adam Bash to give us some short and effective horror.  I do think the ‘reason’ for the awakening could have used one or two more hints as to why it occurred (or about the passenger’s background), but that’s where I can again hope that this blossoms in to more issues…