D4VE #2

The second issue of Ferrier and Ramon's robotic comedy finds D4ve's life take an unexpected turn for the better, just as everything else gets worse...

Writer:

Ryan Ferrier

Artist:

Valentin Ramon

Colours:

Valentin Ramon

Lettering:

Ryan Ferrier

Publisher:

Monkeybrain Comics

Continuing the trend established in the prior issue, D4ve's mix of humour, tragedy and dream sequences underpin a looming threat on the horizon.

Now let's start with the good: D4ve has been chosen to be a key part of a new initiative to seek out new energy resources for robot kind (beyond that I have no idea, as our protagonists rather humorous take on the meeting is just a few words interspersed with *waffle waffle waffle*). Now the bad: his wife is leaving him, he's been left with a son that was delivered just this morning who's already a teenager. Oh and there's an alien armada that just touched down with what seems like a less than wonderful intent.

Because of all this happening it felt a bit like D4ve #2 was treading water a bit when it came to plot compared to last issue. To make up for this though, we have a upswing in humour, mostly general in nature but the funnier stuff focusing on D4ve's misfortunes and frequent flights of fancy.

I said it in my last review, but Valentin Ramon's art really does go from strength to strength. Be it by the strength of the collaboration or off his own back, the world of D4ve is bursting with small details that make the world feel alive and larger than just what we see on the page. Just the throwaway sight gags alone would be enough to launch other comics, but it all adds together with the humour, characterisation and plot to make one of the best comics I've had the pleasure of reading...well since D4ve #1.

Add in THAT ending and well, I'm just glad I've Issue 3 to look forward to soon. I don't think I could wait any longer!

You can buy Dave #2 here, or else subscribe to the entire series via Comixology. For the insanely good price of $0.99 its worth it.

 Reece Morris-Jones can be reached on twitter @reecemjones. He's not a spam bot. Honest.

Geek-o-Rama received a copy of this comic for the purpose of this review. All thoughts, comments and opinions are those of the individual reviewer.