Reseña de ARC Fathom Volume 1: A World Below - The Starter Edition

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Fathom Volume 1: A World Below - The Starter Edition 

by 

Michael Turner

Bill O'Neil (author), Frank Mastromauro (editor), Jonathan D. Smith (artist), Joe Weems V (artist), Peter Steigerwald (artist)

200 pages

Expected publication: May 14th 2019 by Diamond Book Distributors

ISBN13: 9781941511671

Edition Language: English

BLURB: A brand new value-priced edition of the best-selling series created by comic book legend Michael Turner, Fathom follows Aspen Matthews a young woman who has always been drawn to the sea. As a Marine biologist, she discovers something strange and beautiful on the sea floor; something not of our world. Now, Aspen's life will never be the same, and the fate of two civilizations will rest in her hands. 

My rating: 4 batle oceanic stars

A ten years old Aspen Matthews appears in a ship dissapeared for 10 years; always atracted by the sea, she become an Olympic swimmer and later a Marine Biologist. The story start when she is invited to join a submarine facility where a strange technology is studied under conjoin efforts of Japan and US.

This a sort of The Abysm / Siren, in a bit of pulpy way.

There are various forms of underwater fighting, with and without weapons.

-Mysterious gorgeous girl with mysterious past or amnesia? Check.

Tough Aspen is (big suprise) a speshul snowflake and in the first moment made me facepalm with the SPOILERS---->OH I'm not human - Lets kill ALL the humans then. And train as weapon WITHOUT A THOUGHT IF THAT WAS GOOD OR BAD<----SPOILERS/  and find her not annoying after a moment.

-Incredible hot menfolk? Check.

-Two countries fighting for something thinking that the other is cheating to get advantages (well hello, Stargate) Check. And meanwhile (view spoiler)[passing the game to the bad guys (hide spoiler)].

-The menfolk have a pretty cool technology (alien level and I'm still not clear if they are indeed alien or not). Amphibian bubly ships and stuff. As I said, they remind me of James Cameron's Abyss (1989)

¿Ven lo que quiero decir?

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Romance? Nope. Just an annoying ex

Violence? Oh, yes.

Bad language? pretty covered with #*& style.

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-->Entertaining. I'll give it a try with the other volumens

This comics started at the end of 90s and there was talk -in between demands for copyright with the other publishers- to became a movie but still there are not results. The original author since then pass away.

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Un barco crucero aparece despues de estar perdido diez años, nadie sabe nada y un capitan adopta a una niña huerfana, la protagonista quien no tiene memoria de su vida anterior. Depues ella se convierte en biologa marina y es llamada a ayudar en la investigacion en una instalacion secreta en el fondo del mar donde ven lo que parece tecnologia alienigina del tipo biotecnologico. Mientras tanto hay aviones anfibios, mucho movimiento de hombre de negro, y dos facciones de lo que parecen hombres acuaticos que andan detras de esta chica a pesar de que estuvo como quince años sin que nadie se metiera con ella aunque la vigilaban de lejos.

Asi esta Aston Matthews se ve metida en conspiraciones, civilaciones raras, unos hombres yummy, y mucha aventura.

A pesar de que concluye el arco de la historia, hay varios volumenes que amplian la historia , y la verdad me los leeria.

Bueno este es un comic que a pesar de ser hecho a fines de los 1990s  yo lo veo más bien ochentero, con mucha accion, tipos musculosos, heroes de la marina haciendo de payasos pero buenos para pelear (a lo TopGun), y civilizaciones perdidas en el fondo oceanico que no estan nada de satisfechos con la polucion y con el hecho de que los humanos se crean homo superior cuando son mpas homotrash que otra cosa. Y .... gobiernos que salivan ante el avance tecnologico armamentista y que se dejan cegar por ello.

Sólo me asalta una duda: ¿Que hacia el gobierno de Chile mientras tanta cosa rara pasaba en la Isla de Pascua? ¿Ah? ¿Ah? lol.

[¿en dónde estaba el gobierno chileno mientras tantas cosas raras pasaban en la isla de Pascua? Oo' (hide spoiler)]

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