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Prehistoric empires! Dystopian futures! And everywhere in between! The past, present, and future of our universe are about to meet an untimely end, and only the mysterious Ivar Anni-Padda can prevent all three from collapsing in on themselves. Unstuck in time, and pursued by enemies simultaneously across every moment of his time-lost life, can the man called Timewalker save everything that ever was, is, and will be?

Get ready for a clock-stopping odyssey into the distant past and far future as the most unlikely Valiant hero of all leaps into his first history-ripping adventure!

Writer:

Fred Van Lente

Artist:

Clayton Henry

Publisher:

Valiant

I've a lot of patience for people who try crazy ideas. If the concept of a person who travels through time constantly via one way portals with a physicist who one day will create time travel isn't crazy, I don't know what is. How about we add to the mix that our time traveller may as well call himself Paul McGann and start trying out for the 8^th Doctor roles? Or that our physicist seems to have the vocabulary of a fratboy, regularly calling everyone she meets bro?.

It's an odd start to a series for sure, especially as for myself (and I assume this will be the case for many of the readers of the series), this will be the character's debut, instead of whatever introduction he's had in other Valiant series.

So yeah, what did I think? I think it's a series with a lot of promise. Issue one throws a lot of balls into the air for writer Fred Van Lente to juggle and he handles them well. From doling out it's 'rules' on time travel, to setting up our characters so they are interesting enough and have to overcome enough challenges to make it worth following them through the entire series, he manages to throw it all in without it feeling forced, even if the odd speech patterns of all the character's did confuse me. Perhaps it's an American thing, in that their scientists ask you to 'get off their jockstrap'. I don't think I'll bother finding that one out.

Still, it's certainly an enjoyable enough romp through a few time periods, even if it's probably not one that will hold up to long term introspection. If you're waiting for the new series of Doctor Who to start and want something that has the essence of that, whilst having a recognisable American tinge, check it out. Those who don't know their Doctor Who from their Doctor Phil, well do you like tricksters and time travel japery? If you do, pick this up!

Cover image courtesy of Valiant.

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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.