Comic Review: Spectrum #2

Spectrum #2
Written, Penciled, and Inked by Peter Simeti
Alterna Comics
Cover Price: $3

He should be dead. He thought he was dead. But Dr. Glass is somehow alive, although the medics in the morgue think otherwise. Glass awakens just before an autopsy is to be performed on him, and quickly escapes as he tries to remember the events of the night before, in which his lab partner was killed and his lab destroyed, all in the name of an experiment project called Spectrum. Now it appears, that very suit he was working on has become part of his body, and he realizes through the fog of his mind that his family is perilous danger. Meanwhile, the Sponsor, the financial backer of Spectrum, is setting out to tie up loose ends. His first task is to eliminate all ties to Glass, and using Glass's cell phone, sets out to destroy anyone with a connection to Glass.

In Spectrum #2, Peter Simeti returns with his one-man created comic here as he picks the story up right where he left Issue #1. His parallel time running story focuses on Glass and The Sponsor, as one tries to protect life and one tries to destroy it, bringing back to mind the stances that each character takes on science and research in the first issue. The story primarily focuses on Glass, and much of the story is told via internal monologue...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom

Comic Review: Spectrum #1

Spectrum #1
Written, Penciled, and Inked by Peter Simeti
Alterna Comics
Cover Price: $3

Dr. Glass. He's a scientist with a personal investment in the work on a revolutionary body suit that would help the paralyzed walk again. After 182 failures, Glass turns to a synthetic element, Translusium, that he believes that if bonded to the suit will finally make it work. His bold step works, and on try 182, he gets his success. Glass finds that the suit also has an unplanned side effect of being both flexible but incredibly tough, and has neural and nerve enhancement properties. But when the project's sponsors learn of the suit's properties, they immediately see the military functions for it and the profits it can bring. When Glass refuses to hand the suit over, the unnamed sponsors simply send their hired gunmen to retrieve the suit. Glass's two associates are quickly gunned down, and in an ensuing explosion, it is believed that Glass has died. Even Glass thinks so. But he is alive. In what condition he is in, and how he survived, is unknown to him, but he is still alive. And those responsible for tonight's attack will soon learn the true power of Project: Spectrum...continue reading this review at Geeks of Doom