Bliss #1by Patti MartinsonReviews may contain information that could be considered 'spoilers'. Readers should proceed at their own risk. Publisher
Credits Grade: 7 Bliss opens with a young, bespectacled man sitting in front of a Judge on an exceptionally high dais. He appears to be attempting to defend his father of a mass murder.We later see that this man, Damien, was born of something of a shotgun marriage between his mother and father. Living with his parents in a bad neighborhood in a bad city, Damien, now a boy of 10 or 12, becomes sick. His father travels to a really, really bad area to take on a job for the money necessary to heal his son. I was first put off by the opening pages of this comic -- with the arrival of a hick father with a shotgun to force his pregnant daughter to marry the baby's father and then disowning the daughter anyways. Then the judge comparing a mass murder to a banker selling subprime homes. However, when we get to the part of the father traveling to super-bad part of town to save his son, things get more interesting. Also interesting, the leaders of a mafia-like group all look like aliens of some sort. And they possess a substance called bliss, which wipes out peoples' memories of the past couple of hours. Kind of an interesting way to justify how people can sleep at night, given what crimes they have done. This doesn't look like this will be a pleasant series to read, but darned if it isn't compelling anyways. Written: July 22, 2020
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