Imagine my surprise when I saw that there were two artists on Karnak #2! Gerardo Zaffino illustrates the majority of the book and it looks wonderful with his signature sketchy style and unique layouts. Still, I can’t wait for issue three and I really don’t want to wait another four months for it. I would guess it is to not see the affection taking place but I could be totally wrong.

Part of it may be the art shift but the meaning for Karnak to sit and drink water at a restaurant and place his hand on the window after seeing two women kiss was lost on me. My only problem with the issue is the ending is a bit vague. The way Karnak ever so lightly touches the stone stuck in the monk’s face is almost cringe worthy. It’s extremely effective and quite scary. Ellis writes Karnak extremely cold and emotionless and I love when he interrogates others.

It’s awesome and a totally crazy unique idea that I’ve never seen before. The difference here is that the monk using the power holds his hands as if he was holding a rifle. Ellis then introduces one of the most Warren Ellis ideas ever: Zen Gunnery, the power of shooting bolts of lightning from your hands. It’s a visceral, violent and bloody fight and I loved some of the unique ways that Karnak dispatched his foes. It reminded me very much of the movie The Raid one man taking on a building full of bad guys. The first half of the book and some of the middle is Karnak fighting his way through the warehouse where the abducted boy is believed to be held. So was this issue worth a four month wait? Probably not, but it’s a damn fine issue. He managed to take something I was completely uninterested in, made it interesting and the character cool. I’ve never cared about, nor read any other Inhuman comics before Warren Ellis’s Karnak. Man was I anxiously waiting for this issue to hit my hot little hands. Easy enough for a man who finds the flaw in everything. Karnak agreed to rescue the boy as long as he could train him at the Tower of Wisdom. to rescue an Inhuman child who has been kidnapped by the I.D.I.C., a dark and secret organization. Previously in Karnak: Karnak has been given an assignment by S.H.I.E.L.D. Letterer: VC’s Clayton Cowles, Joe Caramagna

Has the four month wait been worth it? Read on and find out! Way back in October Warren Ellis wrote an awesome debut issue for an ongoing Karnak series.

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