Romulus #1

Romulus, Issue #1 is a comic that was recommended to me by a friend, and I thought I'd finally give a go at reading it before Issue #2 comes out in two days.  I hadn't heard of the creators when I bought it (aside from the excellent letterer, Troy Peteri), so I approached it with a little trepidation.  I mean, it's an Image comic, so it's probably good, right?  It's the story of a 22-year-old assassin named Ashlar, formerly a Wolf of the Ancient Order of Romulus.

Romulus is pretty cool.  You've got a woman assassin, trained by her mother, turned on by her masters.  She meets with Nicholas Franklin, the genius scientist.  Together, they will save five billion lives, she promises.  The scope of this series is immense, as there are seven billion people on Earth, and she only wants to save five billion of them.  Anyway, this issue is a good start, and I look forward to buying Issue #2 on Wednesday.