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The Prisoner #1The Prisoner #1 by Peter Milligan

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


(Titan Comics Issue #1)- I am not really familiar with the British TV show The Prisoner, though I know that it is well regarded. Because of that, I might not be biased in certain ways towards this comic for good or bad.

This got really good reviews so I thought I would pick it up. It is written by Peter Milligan, who decades later gets kind of lost in that British/Vertigo wave of comic writers in the 90s. I did enjoy some of his work like his Hellblazer and X-Force/X-Statix, but those are both over a decade old. I picked up his New Romancer a couple of years ago and it was a pretty unreadable mess.

Still, as the press wrote, this seems to be a story down Milligan's alley.

The truth is I was really pleasantly surprise. The knock I had heard was that Milligan overexplains. I don't think that is quite the phrase. The story never feels overwritten. Indeed, the plotting works like you may have been on an island for 20 years and never seen a Bourne movie.

The plotting and explanation though is well paced. It explains the Prisoner plot without feeling redundant or being out of sync with the dialogue.

Milligan has a good feel for the character and its the little touches that bring it to life. It certainly isn't a million miles away from Hellblazer. Collin Lorimer's art is a very workmanlike drawing that you would expect in an upper tier indie book, but with the colors and letters, it gives it a really appropriate feel.

I wasn't quite sure what this would be like, but I think it actually exceeded my expectations. It is very early on so we will see how it progresses, but right now, makes a fine addition to the Pull List.



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