The Fellowship was fortunate enough to obtain a copy of THE SPIRE #1 from BOOM! Studios. Simon Spurrier writes, Jeff Stokely draws and Andre
May colors.
With her father very recently deceased, the new Baroness is
rather short on patience. Add to this the fact that her childhood nanny has
just been murdered. Captain Sha picks up the case, amid all of the usual racism
she faces as Sculpted. The odd thing is that the nanny was found dead along
with two other local hoodlums, who Sha had been pursuing the day before.
The Spire is a pretty big city with a somewhat medieval, low
fantasy feel. The Sculpted (often called “skews”) are modified people – Sha has
tentacles that retract into her back. And the hoods wear powdered wigs and
speak in pseudo-Shakespearean verse (most of the time). The combination makes
for a fascinating bit of worldbuilding, and Sha is just a cop trying to get by
in it. The art really helps to build that world as well, especially with the
brief scenes outside the city.
There are layers to this story that I haven’t even touched
on here (partly for space, but also to avoid spoilers). I’m really looking
forward to seeing this world and this story built out further. This is
definitely a picker-upper.
~Mike ( @MikeyGeek )
