Advance Review: Golgotha Motor Mountain #1
Advance Review: Golgotha Motor Mountain #1
Coming soon from IDW Publishing
Coming soon from IDW Publishing is a new horror story set in an interesting location and with a vast cast. Check out my thoughts on Golgotha Motor Mountain #1.
When a derelict chunk of a passing interstellar rock rains down on Elwood and Vernon Damnage’s meth lab in Golgotha Knob, Kentucky, their lives are turned into a redneck body horror nightmare.
Still needing to make their deliveries to the buyers, mutations or not, they set off down Golgotha Knob only to be beset on all sides by crazed addicts, cannibal police, and mutated Neo-Nazis. It doesn’t matter what waits at the bottom of Golgotha Knob for the Damnage brothers because they must ride through a cosmic hell that they’re unlikely to survive. But if these brothers do survive, they’ll finally have made enough money to start over in the beautiful utopia that is Cincinnati.
Authors: Lonnie Nadler, and Matthew Erman
Artist: Robbi Rodriguez
You get a feel for what to expect by kicking off this new story straight from the beginning. In a dump of a town, two brothers are cooking up some meth. They dream of better things and have a plan. This plan looks like they are going to leave their troubles behind. These troubles may have something to do with the threatening messages.
Their troubles increase, though, from an unlikely source - space.
This trouble is one of those troubles where the two brothers don’t know how much trouble they are in yet, and the tension throughout this story is magnificent. As we follow the duo through their deal, we get a tour and history of the town of Golgotha and a kind of inkling of the types of people who make up this story. They are not very nice. The brothers themselves aren’t clean either (see the meth cooking), but there is a degree of sympathy for them.
Things are not going to go their way.
The aspect of the rock, mixed with the meth and the town and townsfolk, make for an interesting powderkeg which has just started in this initial issue.
I love the artwork and colouring. The use of bright colours - like the masks and the rock- creates an interesting contradiction to the story's location. With dust and space, we get a wicked combination. The characters are well-crafted, and there are some good uses of light as well. I can see the artist had some fun with this, too.
A tense introduction, which covers a lot of bases - certainly a must-buy for sci-fi and Breaking Bad fans!
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