Moscow doesn't have that kind of hotels
The first review in a new format. Being like a top Comicviner, yep.
The Good
Fabian Nicieza is hitting his second arc on Red Robin. To be honest, I was a fan of this series since its launch and all the twelve issue that a magnificent Christ Yost managed to write were one of the greatest comic-book experience of 2009 and partly 2010 years. And as a dedicated follower I was really worried after the news of Yost's departure and Nicieza-dude continuing his work. I remembered quite well his Robin story called Search for a Hero, with Ulysses Armstrong as Anarky, and it was not the best way to spend your money. Once in a while Yost made me really CARE about a character, each issue was a generic action adventure with a bit of a good, light humor and after a year of careful building up it all could easily go to the lowest levels of the Batcave (and I think that's, like, a bottom of a waterfall). But here we are, one arc behind, and Tim Wayne is more alive than ever. With a subtile Hit List presence, in issue #18 Red Robin is going to Moscow planning to kill two birds with one stone: 1) as Tim to get a grant check for his new program, Neon Knights; 2) as Red R. to investigate a grant check giver, Viktor Mikalek, and his connection to super villian underground network known as Unternet. The story as a concept is pretty great, especially a cameo of Red Star. Nicieza is trying to tie all of his ideas back from his previous run & is doing it swelly well. I'm really looking forward to see what's role this "Promise" will play and the explanation of what happened in the last couple of pages. The artwork is great as always, Marcus To is a perfect fit for this series. Tho the color could be more bright, some pages are monotonous.
