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Xombi

door John Rozum, Frazer Irving (Illustrator)

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Writer John Rozum and artist Frazer Irving (BATMAN AND ROBIN) team up to deliver the finest in contemporary urban horror - with a super hero twist in this sensational graphic novel! XOMBI centers around David Kim, a medical researcher who was attacked in his laboratory by strange creatures and left for dead. His supernaturally induced mortal injuries were repaired by nanomachines injected into his body. The combination of science and the supernatural has had two consequences. 1) He cannot die. Ever. He can self-heal any wound, any disease, never has to brush his teeth, diet, worry about aging, or use a toilet. The nanomachines in his body process everything and keep him in peak physical condition. This condition brought on BY artificial means is what makes him a xombi. 2) He has now become a magnet for supernatural phenomenon. All manner of really strange stuff occurs with him somehow winding up in the center of it.… (meer)
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For a book that collects a comic starting with issue #1, this really gets going in media res. It's full of exotic supporting characters who get defined on the fly. While the Xombi's powers are the result of hyper-technological "nanites," his friends and foes seem to be mostly supernaturally religious/occult in their origins and orientations. They seem to have some larger background, because they shared in an earlier series, but they are all sort of quirky and enigmatic anyway: the tone is closer to Bob Burden than Jack Kirby. Superpowered nuns and rabbis are funny, right? Although the original Xombi from the 1990s became involved with the larger DC superhero milieu, this reboot sequence (by the original writer) is more contained. The origin story is not rehashed, but rather dribbled out through incidental allusion.

I was motivated to pick this up to read because the art looked good: Frazer Irving provides expressive painted panels throughout, and there are a generous number of full-page tableaux. The six issues of the new series conclude a distinct plot arc "The Ninth Stronghold," and the 2009 re-debut of Xombi in The Brave and the Bold 26 is appended to these. Scott Hampton's art in the latter is looser and more expressionistic.
3 stem paradoxosalpha | Mar 14, 2012 |
Very nice art, good story. Some of the characters have unusual, interesting backgrounds; for instance, the protagonist is Korean-American. An ally of his with superpowers is a rabbi who can create golems to aid them. Another is Catholic Girl, who (of course) wears a plaid skirt. Nun the Wiser, Nun the Less, and Nun of the Above are also colleagues. Kim is a scientist who develops powers when injected with the nanovirus he created, becoming virtually invincible and immortal. (But not completely, because where would be the fun in that?) The plays on words are also entertaining. ( )
  NatalieSW | Mar 9, 2012 |
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Writer John Rozum and artist Frazer Irving (BATMAN AND ROBIN) team up to deliver the finest in contemporary urban horror - with a super hero twist in this sensational graphic novel! XOMBI centers around David Kim, a medical researcher who was attacked in his laboratory by strange creatures and left for dead. His supernaturally induced mortal injuries were repaired by nanomachines injected into his body. The combination of science and the supernatural has had two consequences. 1) He cannot die. Ever. He can self-heal any wound, any disease, never has to brush his teeth, diet, worry about aging, or use a toilet. The nanomachines in his body process everything and keep him in peak physical condition. This condition brought on BY artificial means is what makes him a xombi. 2) He has now become a magnet for supernatural phenomenon. All manner of really strange stuff occurs with him somehow winding up in the center of it.

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