Where? Planet earth
When? Whenever!
The Red Wing is the newest creator owned project by fan favourite Johnathan Hickman, and involves a load of high concept time travelling! Cadets from the 23rd century prepare to follow in their father’s footsteps as fighter pilots in a war across time in The Red Wing squadron.
Flying TAC (Temporal attack craft) pilots sneak up on enemies by flying through space in a different time period, before jumping back through time to attack or retreat, it’s all rather clever really! This produces some excellent chase/dogfight scenes as the scenery changes constantly when the pilots attempt to outmanoeuvre each other through both space and time. We fly with dinosaurs in the Tithonian Age and even dogfight over roman amphitheatres.
The dialogue is as slick as the flying, and the narrative contains backstory that feels necessary to the plot rather than forced expositional flashbacks. The characters too are very convincing.
The artwork is spaceship-tastic and makes everything feel like the best bits of every science fiction film all squeezed together into something that becomes it’s own animal entirely. It’s like George Lucas, H.G Wells, Stan Winston and James Cameron sat down together and decided to write a comic called The Red Wing.
Overall it feels like a film of epic proportions, the first few pages would make the best five minute introduction to a film ever. This is a triumphant introduction to a hopefully incredible four part story, Jonathan Hickman makes Dr. Emmet Brown proud.
John Paul de Quay.
