The Ghost Fleet 1

For the world’s most valuable, dangerous, or secretive cargo, you don’t call just any trucking service . . . You call THE GHOST FLEET. When one of the world’s most elite combat-trained truckers takes a forbidden peek at his payload, he uncovers a conspiracy that will change his life forever! A new series of badass action on the open road begins here!

I don’t often find that I run into a book that’s completely like anything else I’ve read before.  Typically, it’s got something that reminds me of another monster tale or a hero’s quest.  When it comes to the story of The Ghost Fleet though, I can’t say I’ve experienced a book like it before.  That right there lent itself to interest right from the beginning and kept going to the end.

The story initially goes into a brief historical flashback into the so to speak origins of the “ghost fleet” operation.  Once we start the real story though, things escalate very rapidly.  It seems to start off as just a high risk, heavily guarded trucking operation.  Completely normal for the most part right?  As the story progresses we see that this particular run was far from normal, most especially the cargo.  Although we don’t see what it is exactly, it’s like something out of X-Files and highly dangerous.

So far the artwork has been pretty good, painting a clear albeit insanely violent picture of this story.  The sheer brutality of some of the scenes was done beautifully, if that’s the appropriate word.  The rougher style of linework fits really well in this book, adding to the grittier feel for things.  I was quite pleased with the movement in all the action scenes, especially those involving the plethora of vehicular mayhem.

With this quite original book filled with action, violence and mystery, my curiosity is definitely piqued.  I’d really like to see where this goes past the madness already laid out in the first issue.  If you’re looking for a brand new book that doesn’t look like it’s going to slow down, this seems like a good one to grab.  I certainly want to know what the hell was in the truck.

For more on The Ghost Fleet or other Dark Horse titles, check out Dark Horse Comics.

The Ghost Fleet 1 will be available 11/5

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