Publisher: Pulp Theatre Entertainment
Email: info@pulptheatre.com
Website: www.brodielaw.com
Writer: Alan Grant
Artist, Cover & Co-Creator: David Bircham
Price: $2.95
Comments: On the back cover of each one of these comics, it reads: "What would the law mean, if every day had a different face? I came to possess the power of anonymity and with it I became a law unto myself but it came with a heavy price. Each journey into the body of another took me further into the darker recesses of the human mind. I am no longer alone. The voices within are getting louder." Wow! This comic book is more action packed than the Punisher, more darker than Spawn and more terrifying than the movie "Saw". Jack Brodie the anti-hero of this comic book gives me the creeps. Let me explain. Starting off with issue #1, the reader meets Jack Brodie, a dark and forbidding character. A character that seems to have many demons inside. He feels self-righteous when he goes after Marla (his ex-wife and the mother of his son Damien). As dark as Jack Brodie is, I wouldn't be surprised if his son doesn't have the mark of the beast on him somewhere. Damien is probably traumatized by his own parents, but that is my thought on this story.
Let's keep on going. Marla is hooked on Odessa. Odessa is a crimelord that has a club that is filled with thieves and pushers. Marla is not only hooked on Odessa, but is strung out on coke. She blames Jack Brodie for this. Jack Brodie, a vigilante in his own right goes into the club and takes full control of Odessa and his men. He takes Marla out of the club. But, this is only one part of the story. Come to find out Jack Brodie was also hired to steal a computer disc from P-Fact Labs. Brodie is now a wanted man throughout the land, he broke into the labs and stole a disc that is encoded with new science that could endanger the world! There is dark humor in this comic book as Tony T - who refers himself as the 'assassin of the stars' does a mock-up reality TV show joke of some sort in which he gathers some underworld criminals and calls his made up reality show "The Big Countdown". His main question to the first criminal called James 'Knuckles' Moran (I wonder if he is related to Bugsy Moran?...hmmm) is "where is Jack Brodie?" The countdown begins and when he receives no adequate answer, Knuckles gets a bullet in the head. There is a scene shift to a clandestine meeting between Mr. Della Cruz (head of P-Fact Labs?) and Detective Harry Wade (who had run-ins with Jack Brodie in his past). Mr. Della Cruz wants Brodie and he wants that disc. Marla is found murdered in the Bates Hotel (and Norman Bates didn't kill her in the shower - she is murdered by someone else).
There aremany spectacular action scenes without word balloons and the artwork is amazingly graphic, not for people with weak stomachs. This is a top-notch comic book with a thundering storyline and artwork to match! Brodie on the other hand does his own investigation and snatches up a beautiful Asian babe that used to work at P-Fact Labs as a DNA researcher, her name is Tomokai Yoshida. Tomokai agrees to work with Brodie, because she is determined to understand what is on the disc. This is her science personality that steps through and just in time for Brodie. Brodie kidnapped Tomokai and with the struggle to capture her, she is now a willing participant in Brodie's game plan of finding out what is on the disc. What is on the disc is quite shocking, it deals with human morphing and Tomokai makes a serum for Brodie. If Brodie doesn't have the right DNA in his body, the serum could kill him. If everything adds up, Brodie can morph into another human being. Step into the maddening world of Jack Brodie, if you can survive the first issue, then be prepared to be terrified by events that can be beyond human comprehension! Brodie's Law is impossible to put down!
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