Published by Markosia at www.markosia.com and produced by Pulp Theatre Entertainment at www.pulptheatre.com
Written and created by David Bircham and Daley Osiyemi
Art by David Bircham
Some comics are a haven of delights to come back to month after month. The mystery deepens. Pieces start to fall into place. The payoff of sticking around seems to pay in spades. They just keep getting better and better, with back issues being referred to over and over again to solidify what happened. This describes the Markosia comic Brodie’s Law.
I had the fortune to read a previous issue of Brodie’s Law and found myself going awfully slow to figure out all the nuances and minutiae of the developing plot. It was worth it, as I found the read here for #8 went much smoother than the read for #7. And that makes sense if your first issue of a book started with chapter seven. It is kind of like explaining a TV show, like LOST or 24, to somebody who just started watching halfway through the season. It does become worthwhile, especially when the plot is so intricately and delicately layered together that each scene plays upon another. Brodie’s Law is accomplishing just that in its fantastic plot.
Our hero is now back in his own body after his mind transference into other people. Can he save his mind and learn how to use this new power, a power which is beginning to manifest other attributes? Can he figure it all out? Can he trust the people who are helping him? Will the detectives on the trail be able to piece it all together? These are just some of the plot details that are marvelously coming to a head right now in the pages of Brodie’s Law.
Suffice it to say, I like what this comic is doing. It moves along at a splendid pace and reads even better issue after issue. Bircham’s art is something to fall into, with a style all its own. His characters are something else. They seem to portray a ton of emotion in every face. I keep trying to place his style and I keep falling back on a kind of Brian Bolland out of Batman: The Killing Joke. Without the faces in that classic comic, it wouldn’t be as great as it is. That seems to be the power of Bircham’s art.
All I know is that I can’t wait for issue #9.
(This was a review I wrote quite a while ago but somehow it never saw print. My apologies to the guys. Now go and buy their books.)
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