nash review
nash review
nash-a review
okay. hey yo! so, in your illustrious career, you've been known as vinnie vegas and diesel and big sexxy the giant killer. you've held major championships in the two biggest professional wrestling federations. you've been a fan favorite and a heel and currently you're semi-retired from the sport so you and your best friend, the former razor ramon, can hang out together while you book matches for the company you're currently under contract to.
so, what do you do for an encore? well, it ain't go to disneyworld, friends. you write a comic book. and that's exactly what professional wrestler kevin nash has done.
nash is a new series from image comics and next entertainment. written by nash, with pencils by marat mychaels, inks by jaime mendoza and colors by next color, nash is a futuristic tale of survival. better than let me try to do this, let's let the folks at next describe it in this synopsis from their website: "nash, a sci-fi action adventure comic, blasts into the future world of 2023. there is no money, no middle class, no justice and no hope. food is the only commodity in a world divided into social casts: the affluent elite who live in the domed cities and tattered poor who inherited the unwanted waste lands. out of this desolate land steps nash, a massive man with a plan, intent on giving the establishment in the domed cities a butt kicking and the poor of the waste lands a piece of the pie....."
whew! i'm tired just from reading that!
nash is a desert wanderer and a bit of a legend in this book. hey-i guess if you wrote it, you can make yourself a legend. the world he dwells in is very much like that of mad max or many other futuristic wasteland sci-fi tales you've probably read or seen. the oppressed keep getting stepped on by the strong and it's up to nash to come forth to rescue them and score some fine looking women while he can.
basically, kevin nash' wrestling persona in a post-apocalyptic world.
if you're looking for more than that in terms of a plot, you won't find it here. of course, i may be selling the book short. not too much has been revealed in the first two issues except that nash is the good guy and minister parch (see, the world is drying up...parch!) is the chief baddy. and nash talks with a ton of bad clichés and has sex in the middle of it all.
nash came out with a ton of hype, both in the comic and wrestling world. nash the real character did a stint at wizard world in chicago to promote the book. there's about a gazillion(over-estimate here) variants(including a $100 platinum edition. haven't we been here before? over-priced variants died when superman came back from the dead) available for the first two issues. there's the ultra-cool looking next site and, i'm sure, big kev's own site must have some hype about it.
it's not that the book is bad, it's just that it needs work. i'm a firm believer of the john byrne method of comic writing: something which can be read while sitting on the john in twenty minutes. in reality, you could read both issue #1 and #2 of this book in twenty minutes, and still have time to start the new york times crossword puzzle. at an average of one word balloon per panel and six panels to a page, it makes for darn quick reading.
there are some nice bits though, mostly in the glib attitude of the title character who, quite obviously, gets the best lines in the book. early on in issue #1, nash sticks this explosive little green ball he uses throughout the series into the mouth of one of parch' men. it proceeds to blow the poor soul's head off. nash comments: "messy...but i love the noise it makes." at one point our hero in doing the nasty with some female conquest, who is screaming about how she thinks the ground is moving. there's a reason for that: it's an attack by parch and his men.
but the single best line, albeit one used by 'ahnold" before is this scene. during a battle with one of parch' faithful, nash grabs him in a traditional arm-bar(trust me, it's a traditional wrestling move). nash: "quit struggling or i'll have to break your arm...on the count of three." when he reaches two, he breaks the arm. the attacker cries out in pain, saying: "you said i had until three". nash' response: "i lied!"
drum roll please!
the art by marat mychaels is...well, it's marat mychaels. he has a very long, angular line with very little weight to it and everyone who has ever inked him follows that thin line to the letter. the same is true with jaime mendoza. so, if you're a fan of mychaels previous image work on titles like brigade, you'll like the art. if you're looking for more depth, you won't find it here. next color's work, provided on this book by mark nicholas, is good in spots and real weak in others. the first time we see this larger than life character, the splash page will blow you away. two pages later, there is a shot which is so overly enhanced that it looks worse than a caricature.
in other words, this book has potential but is currently very uneven!
if you've got the cash to spare and are into pro wrestling, you might want to pick this up. although, quite honestly, the wrestling based titles which chaos! has been pumping out as of late have far more action and a lot more soul. give mr. nash a few more months to try and get this house in order. after that, it's back to the old timers' federation for you!
this book is definitely not too sweeeet!
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