Days Missing from Archaia Entertainment is a comicbook that is based on a concept by a Roddenberry executive named Trevor Roth. The series tells the stories of a mysterious eternal being known only as “The Steward” who has the ability to literally “fold” the days of time in on itself so that he can secretly remove critical days from our shared history in order for him to forever change the course of mankind in such a way so as to “remove” detrimental events from the timeline in order to secure the future of mankind.
To be totally honest with you readers, what first attracted this reviewer to the title was its 99¢ price tag for the initial issue. Yep, that’s right; the first issue on the rack was actually under a buck. Needless to say, that proved to be a great marketing come-on from Archaia, and seriously, who can pass up a deal like that? Still, even a cheap price cover price won’t keep readers around if the story or art can’t deliver. Thankfully not only did, Days Missing #1 absolutely deliver a completely riveting story right from get-go. Phil Hester’s script proved to be wonderful, and truly sucked the reader in right from the first page, and that’s not something that many comics can boast these days.
It not only kept this long-time comicbook reader entranced for the duration of the comicbook, but brought him back for the rest of the initial five-issue run. According to Roth the series follows the Roddenberry tradition of stories that are both cerebral and substantive in nature, “Our hero, The Steward, goes on a legendary voyage that shapes the history of humanity,”
The first five stories dealt with an Ebola outbreak in Africa, dropped in on Mary Shelly’s true inspiration for her classic horror story, Frankenstein. Follow Cortez as he discovered the New World. Discover what was really going on with the EU’s Large Hadron Collider, and other intriguing tales. Well, those first five tales were collected recently in a Trade Paperback and the series has launched into a second story arc where the Steward discovers that he is not as alone as he once thought.
As it turns out, there is a second immortal, a woman named Kestus, only her motivations are not as altruistic as are the Stewards. More so, it seems that she is actually undoing many of the “folds” that Steward has mad, and the streams of time could very well becoming unraveled. What makes this series work so well is that it tapes into half-remembers tales that the reader already “knows” and then spins them off in a direction that is wholly unexpected direction, giving a new and altered view of how said event “actually” took place.
Days Missing is an engaging comicbook, and a compelling story, readers would be well served in not only picking up the original series (in either comic book or Graphic Novel form), as well as the new five issue series.
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Thanks for reminding me that there are still cool comics being created. Intricate storylines and intriguing plots are so much more fun that spandex soap operas...
You're welcome, Jeff, I've been reading comics for so long that when one surprises me like this I just have to tell people about it.
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