By Brandon Graham, Simon Roy, Farel Dalrymple, Giannis Milonogiannis, Joseph Bergin III, Ed Brisson; Image Comics
This review will contain some mild *SPOILERS* for previous chapters of Prophet. For a *SPOILER* free review go here.
Prophet
tells the story of the reawakened Earth Empire as it relaunches its ancient
mission of interstellar conquest. It tells of the soldiers, the legion of
far-flung John Prophet clone brothers, the insidious psychic Mothers, and the
bizarre, alien galaxy in which they operate. Prophet: Brothers continues some
of the storylines from the first chapters and focuses on the rebellious Old Man
John Prophet as he gathers a fellowship of heroes to fight against the
predations of the Earth Empire. Prophet: Brothers is another fantastically
weird comic book: it has that magic of presenting truly alien places, and
concepts, and people with this utter conviction. Everything feels at once
totally real, but also impossibly strange. Which makes Prophet a pretty special
work of Science Fiction. It's also worth noting that the art in this comic is
gorgeous. Giannis Milonogiannis, who draws the majority of this collection, is
just an incredible artist and storyteller. As weird and wonderful as the story
of Prophet is, the artwork in Prophet: Brothers is worth the price of admission
alone. In many ways Prophet as a series functions as an art book as much as a
critically acclaimed Science Fiction comic story. Incidentally, Prophet:
Brothers also adds a sense of continuance to the Prophet series: it really
establishes the wildly different story threads of Prophet: Remission as
elements of a single narrative with a unified purpose. The series is clearly
going somewhere. Prophet: Brothers is a must read comic in a must read series. Boux!
Word count: 250
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