Jon Del Arroz reviews Hungry Hearts, the second in the Right Ho, Jeeves series.
The first issue of Right Ho, Jeeves had a lot of set up. Characters were introduced almost with bios, the scene was set for nearly half the issue. It was enjoyable, but it took for issue 2 for this series to really hit full stride. Kwapisz shows a mastery of cartoonist-style art that gives characters poignant and identifiable features to amplify the humor of the situation. The period pieces and drawings are absolutely gorgeous in the background, which won’t get much credit, but should.
This issue starts where the main character has set a bunch of his colleagues up in different romantic schemes to impress their ladies, and all of them have backfired. Instead of extricating himself from the situation, he doubles down and tries to repair them with more schemes based on deception, only resulting in more hi jinx and more troubles. Jeeves, the butler, is the confidante in these schemes, and one can tell he thinks his master is somewhat crazy, but he’s very diplomatic in the way he phrases his thoughts on the plans.
Read the whole thing there. And just think how this issue is going to look in print!
While we’re at it, one minor bit of production news. After meeting with our printer today, we’ve learned we are going to be able to offer limited edition gold logo comics to add a collectible aspect to Arkhaven and Dark Legion comics. The first 2,500 comic books and 1,000 graphic novels off the press for each issue will sport the gold logo. We have ZERO interest in getting into the games of variant covers and fake #1 issues that the more established publishers play, but this is a harmless way of giving collectors a potential long-term reward for being the first to support us.
The backer editions will not feature the gold logos, but will be set apart in other ways, including the unique covers for the hardcovers.