Written by Steve Orlando, Chaz Truog, and Thomas Mauer
Published by Poseur Ink
Octobriana is a Russian developed comic book character that has made it into the public domain. Today I got a free issue of Poseur Ink’s Octobriana Samizdat Edition. Usually unsolicited works are dubious at best, but I was surprised by the comic book enough to go and get some backfill on the story and see what others had to say about this particular edition. The cool part is that all the writers have written, drawn, and lettered other comics that I have read and loved, and this comic book fits in with their established works well enough to be surprisingly well done. Inking is very good; lettering is very good and readable, with good writing along the story line. This is truly and adult comic book with plenty of sex, guns, violence, hot chicks with realistic bodies, and surprisingly appropriate dialog for the scenes. Not for children, but plenty of adult bits that make the story pop out, especially when Octobriana meets up with Anubis to inherit her status amongst the gods and goddesses.
The cool part is the crazy lady in the rubber cell with some amazingly awesome psychic powers. It is even cooler when the crazy lady uses her psychic powers to interrupt Octobriana in the midst of doing things with her lovers, like exploding someone’s brains. Very awesome, would be better in color, as this comic book is totally black and white. Octobriana spends a lot of time outside her clothes throughout this story, and it works in this case.
I am new to this story line, but given what I was able to find out there is a fascinating history behind the character in how it was developed since the 1960’s and on through today. The Octobriana Samizdat Edition from Poseur Ink follows in the grander tradition of the story line leaving nothing out. This edition also adds some interesting new continuity segments into the story that were not in other editions by other authors. Many authors have played with this, and in reading what was available on line, this is probably one the better editions of the comic book story lines.
Surprisingly well done for an independent comic book, but given the history of the authors, this really should not be a surprised as I have read a lot of other material that they have put out in press, and I love Pop Gun as a comic book series. In general, I tend to pass up free copies of comic books, but this one really stood out as well worth adding to your comic book collection. Hot, fun, engaging, lots of guns, monsters, and dames, it is a taunt story line of psychic power gone horribly wrong. Well worth adding to your collection and very reasonably priced as well. You can pick it up from their web site for a mere three dollars, which is nothing next to what you would pay for 88 pages of comic book goodness. They can send me anything to review at any time.
Full Disclosure: I got this comic book for free unsolicited from Poseur Press.
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