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Venus Review

Venus is a four issue mini series from Boom! Studios, written by Rick Loverd and illustrated by Huang Danlan. When a manned mission to Venus is sabotaged the survivors must find a way to survive with limited supplies in harsh conditions. The set up initially feels a lot like The Martian. One of the characters even remarks “I mean, what do I know. I’m just the botanist”. The plot very quickly takes a turn in a different direction though. In fact every issue has genuinely surprising plot twists.

Often it can take a couple of issues to get to grips with sci-fi comics as the writer sets up the world and introduces the characters. Here though Rick Loverd tells us everything we need to know and gets the ball rolling within a couple of pages. It’s quite an impressive bit of writing that allows us to get stuck right into the action without ever feeling lost or confused.

Huang Danlan’s art has it’s strengths and weaknesses. There are initially a lot of panels with no backgrounds, although this does improve in later issues. There were also a couple of wide shots that I thought didn’t have the level of detail that was really required. Much better though is his character work. Each character has distinctive facial features full of life, no stiff looking figures. This is something even seasoned artists can struggle with so it’s nice to see Danlan handle it well.

Loverd and Danlan are both really solid storytellers who tell a really enjoyable tale. It’s a shame that it ends so abruptly as it feels like there is still a lot of story left. I don’t know if there are any plans to continue Venus but i’d love to revisit this world, there is a lot of potential here.

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Beserker #1 by Dale Keown

Variant cover by Jeremy Haun

Berserker #1 (W) Rick Loverd (A) Jeremy Haun (Cov) Dale Keown, Jeremy Haun

A brutal new series produced by Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia and DiVide Pictures! The lives of Aaron and Farris, two young and completely different men, are turned upside down when they discover an animalistic and uncontrollable rage living inside them. Meanwhile, two mysterious organizations seek them out for their newfound strength and power for their own purposes. But what good is strength and power when you can’t tell friend from foe? From Friday Night Lights screenwriter Rick Loverd and artist Jeremy Haun (Chuck, Leading Man) comes a raw, bloody series in the spirit of Wanted! Featuring variant covers by series artist Jeremy Haun and Dale Keown (The Darkness/Pitt).

Cover A – Dale Keown Cover B – Jeremy Haun

Full Color 32 pages $2.99 ongoing series

Expected Ship Date – June 17th, 2009

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CANTLON: WOLF PACK WIN 3-1 OVER SPRINGFIELD

BY: Gerry Cantlon, Howlings HARTFORD, CT - A second-period goal by Phil Di Guiseppe turned out to be the game-winner as the Hartford Wolf Pack upended the Springfield Falcons 3-1 Saturday night before 3,876 at the XL Center “Our first two periods were fantastic. We gave up just seven shots. We managed the puck well. In the third period, we got away from some of those things, but we finished strong.“ said Pack head coach, Kris Knoblauch. The Pack plays tomorrow afternoon against Rochester at 3 pm. The game was more of a KHL game played by SKA Hartford and Dynamo Springfield as there were long stretches of no action in the middle of the ice and the play was all along the boards. “Tonight wasn’t the prettiest, but it’ll (help) the younger players and encourage them to keep doing the right things,” remarked Di Giuseppe. The message on the whiteboard in the Pack locker room said it best as instruction for the team going into the contest. “Hard work beats skill when skill fails to work.” Filip Chytil was one of the few players who was strong on the puck all night (eight shots) and earned a goal (the empty-netter to seal the win) and also had an assist. “Filip has been playing really well. Sometimes guys make poor decisions and they force passes, he has, but he has also been so responsible with the puck. He has a lot of skill and accents his accents very well,” a hoarse sounding Knoblauch stated. The Pack's Russian netminder, Igor Shesterkin, is obviously used to a KHL-style of play. He had 17 saves and shut down Springfield who were seizing momentum in the third period. One of the better saves was on Dominic Tornato when he was open for a shot on the left-wing. “He really made some incredible saves in the third and made the difference (in the game)," Knoblauch said. The Wolf Pack and Springfield's recent history had a familiar early ring to it as the game commenced. The Thunderbirds score first. The second period played like the first. The offense was spaced out with more action on the periphery and select times were players in front of the net for either team. The Pack got several chances including Chytil with a backhander in front and Gabriel Fontaine on the left-wing. The Wolf Pack were able to gain the lead on the powerplay at 15:33. The Pack got solid puck movement with Jeff LoVerde passing to Chytil, who snapped a quick cross-ice pass to Di Giuseppe, who took the shot in one motion to score his first goal as a Wolf Pack. “The ice was a bit chippy out there, not as crisp as you would like. Fil and I have been working on this after practice, and it's nice to see that work pay off. We found ourselves four or five times (tonight). It was nice to get that (first) one,” remarked Di Giuseppe. The Thunderbirds took their only lead as Jonathan Ang took a quick cross-ice feed from Kevin Roy and put one high glove side high on Shestyorkin at 9:49 on the powerplay. At 18:06, the Wolf Pack tied it late as Nick Jones scored his first pro goal in the slot taking a perfect soft backhand pass from Patrick Newell off the half wall. His quick release put the puck in the back of the net on Thunderbirds goaltender, Philip Desrosiers, who was making his pro debut. “Jones and Newell complement each other well. You can see the skill. The pass from Newell was an elite play and the shot (by Jones) was a quick release.” LINES: Nieves-Beleskey-Kravtsov Fogarty-Lettieri-Fontaine Chytil-O’Regan-Di Giuseppe Gettinger-Newell-Jones LoVerde-Lindgren Goertseen-Keane Day-Raddysh SCRATCHES: Jeff Taylor Nick Ebert Ryan Gropp Ville Meskanen NOTES: Gropp and Taylor have yet to play this season. Knoblauch said there will be lineup changes tomorrow, but they haven’t decided yet what those changes will be. Adam Huska will start in goal. Wolf Pack Fan jerseys of the night: 7 Adam Tambellini now with MODO (Sweden-SHL), 10 J.T. Miller now in Vancouver 14 Jack Combs presently not playing and 36 Craig Weller who is retired. There was also a 55 Dan Girardi London Knights jersey and a beautiful powder blue Maine Blueberries special Maine Mariners jersey. The winners, however, were a beautiful WHA New England Whaler #2 Rick Ley and #9 Mr. Hockey Gordie Howe. They should have kept that logo. Read the full article

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For Sale Berserker (Volume 1) #0 Cover A £1 Published February 2009. Cover Artist Dale Keown. Writer Rick Loverd. Artist Jeremy Haun. Colourist Dave Macaig. This issue is in NM Condition there are some spine tics present. Postage on orders within the UK are £1.77 with an additional 50p for each additional purchase. Free postage is available on orders £25 and over For international orders postage will be calculated upon purchase. Free delivery is available on all international purchases $100 and over. (at Nerdvana Comics) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByGLk7YBncE/?igshid=urq4x8k6s6pt

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“VENUS Volume One″ Review by Counter Monkey Nicky

Would you like a gripping sci-fi story about outer space colonisation that actually has some plausible science backing it up? If so, look no further than Venus, which comes to us from writer Rick Loverd whose dayjob involves the letters “N-A-S-A.” This is no dry scientific treatise however; the first Venus mini-series hit the shelves with all cylinders firing and didn’t slow down once.

Set in the distant year of 2150, the story opens with disaster already under way: the first scene of the book gives us the spaceship Mayflower on the verge of a crash landing. This is the first ship of the United State’s attempt to colonize the inhospital planet of Venus -- the slightly-less-dangerous Mars having already been claimed by the Chinese. In the race for mineral rights in a world of ever-decreasing resources, the US needs this newest “frontier” for the value that can be dredged from its surface, but for the surviving crew of the doomed Mayflower, living to see tomorrow is suddenly a much more pressing concern than cultivating any resources to send back home...especially with the fears of sabotage that come hand-in-hand with the disaster that left them stranded on the surface of this deadly world.

For the crew of the Mayflower, this “final frontier” may turn out to be a very fatal one! Of course any sort of colonial expansion is going to carry with it an intrinsic risk, but Venus presents a load of dangerous not found anywhere else. (Imagine you’re playing Oregon Trail, only instead of dying of dysentery, your party risks being crushed to death by the very, very toxic air around them any time they go outside.) The dangerous environment isn’t lessened any by the fact that the captain went down with the ship, so now the second-in-command (a civilian chosen for publicity, not military rank) has to hold what’s left of the crew together while figuring out who is being insubordinate because they don’t trust her leadership, and who is actually trying to destroy the mission. Add to that the fact that the base that was supposed to be ready and waiting for them isn’t exactly up to snuff and you’ve got more than just one recipe for disaster. Then they finally manage to contact Earth...and things get even worse! 

Venus is a story of one deadly mishap after another, pitting the pioneering human spirit against the worst that outer space colonization might throw at a crew -- with a dash of homegrown troubles thrown-in! And there are a lot of things hiding under the cloudy surface of our setting. Not only are there lots of secrets and closet-skeletons hinted at among the crew, but the story ends on an ominous note, leaving the reader eager to see what happens next! While I’m waiting for volume two to start, you can pick-up the first collection now and head out into the great, sulphuric-acid-filled beyond!

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Venus #4

Writer: Rick Loverd

Art: Huang Danlan

Colors: Marcio Menyz

Letters: Colin Bell

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Venus #4 (of 4)

Writer: Rick Loverd Artist: Huang Danlan

Final issue! With no government and no rules, how do you punish a traitor?

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Venus #4 preview. With no government and no rules, how do you punish a traitor? #comics Venus #4 (of 4) Writer: Rick Loverd Artist: Huang Danlan Final issue! With no government and no rules, how do you punish a traitor?

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PREVIEW: VENUS #2

Pauline and the rest of the survivors from the Mayflower take stock of the base on Venus, but there’s a saboteur in their midst who’s sowing tension in the ranks. STORY BY Rick Loverd ART BY Huang Danlan COLORS BY Marcio Menyz LETTERS BY Colin Bell COVER BY W. Scott Forbes PUBLISHER BOOM! Studios COVER PRICE: $3.99 RELEASE DATE Jan 27th, 2016

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BOOM! Studios brings us the Sci-Fi epic "Venus", December 23rd

BOOM! Studios brings us the Sci-Fi epic “Venus”, December 23rd

Science writer, screen writer, comic writer Rick Loverd crafts a story that fellow creators like Jim Zub, Mark Waid, and Ron Marz are calling intense, meaningful, and fascinating. So I figured I’d check it out. They were so right! The American spaceship “The Mayflower” is crash landing on Venus, it seems there’s been sabotage and the crew is in near panic. Commander Manashe has to take command of…

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CRAWFORD: WOLF PACK NAME STEVEN FOGARTY CAPTAIN

Ryan Lindgren, Vincent LoVerde and Boo Nieves to Serve as Alternate Captains BY: Bob Crawford, Hartford Wolf Pack  HARTFORD, October 3, 2019:  Hartford Wolf Pack general manager Chris Drury announced today that forward Steven Fogarty has been named the 12th captain in Wolf Pack history and that defensemen Ryan Lindgren and Vincent LoVerde, and forward Boo Nieves, will rotate as alternate captains. Fogarty, a fourth-year pro out of the University of Notre Dame, was the Wolf Pack’s second-leading point, goal and assist-scorer last season, with pro career highs of 21-31-52 in 66 games.  The 26-year-old Chambersburg, PA native also logged ten games with the parent New York Rangers in 2018-19.  A third-round (72nd overall) draft pick by the Rangers in 2011, Fogarty has totaled 198 career games of action in a Wolf Pack uniform, notching 37 goals and 56 assists for 93 points, along with 93 penalty minutes. Lindgren is entering his second year of pro hockey out of the University of Minnesota.  In 65 games with the Wolf Pack last season as a rookie, the 21-year-old native of Burnsville, MN chipped in 12 assists and served 94 minutes in penalties, the second-highest total on the Wolf Pack club.  He also got into five NHL games with the Rangers, registering eight PIM.  Lindgren was acquired by the Rangers from Boston February 25, 2018, along with Ryan Spooner, Matt Beleskey and a 2018 first-round draft pick, in exchange for Rick Nash.  He was originally drafted in the second round (49th overall) by the Bruins in 2016. LoVerde is a ninth-year pro, and two-time Calder Cup champion, who was signed to an AHL contract by the Wolf Pack July 1.  The 30-year-old, Chicago, IL-born LoVerde brings 432 games of AHL experience to the Wolf Pack, having amassed career totals of 45 goals and 107 assists for 152 points, along with 316 PIM, in action with the Manchester Monarchs, Ontario Reign and Toronto Marlies.  A product of Miami University (Ohio), LoVerde captained the 2014-15 Monarchs to a Calder Cup title and also won a Calder Cup with the 2017-18 Marlies. Nieves, a 25-year-old fourth-year man out of the University of Michigan, skated in 43 games with the Rangers in 2018-19, contributing four goals and six assists for ten points.  He also saw action in 16 games with the Wolf Pack and registered three goals and five assists for eight points.  A second-round (59th overall) draftee by the Rangers in 2012 and a native of Syracuse, NY, Nieves is a veteran of 72 career NHL games, in which he has totaled five goals and 14 assists for 19 points, plus 20 penalty minutes, and 104 AHL contests with the Wolf Pack, having produced 19 goals and 33 assists for 52 points, with 28 PIM. The Wolf Pack opens its 2019-20 regular season this Saturday, October 5, with a home-ice contest vs. the defending Calder Cup-champion Charlotte Checkers.  Faceoff is 7:00 PM.  Tickets for that game and all 2019-20 Wolf Pack home games are on sale now at the Sunwave Gas & Power Ticket Office at the XL Center, on-line at hartfordwolfpack.com and by phone at (877) 522-8499.  Tickets purchased in advance for kids 12 or younger start at just $10 each, and all tickets will have a $3 day-of-game increase. To speak with a Wolf Pack representative about season or group tickets, or any of the Wolf Pack’s many ticketing options, call (860) 722-9425, or click here to request more info.  To visit the Wolf Pack online, go to hartfordwolfpack.com. Read the full article

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Venus #2

Writer: Rick Loverd

Art: Huang Danlan

Colors: Marcio Menyz

Letters: Colin Bell

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Venus #1

Writer: Rick Loverd

Art: Huang Danlan

Colors: Marcio Menyz

Letters: Colin Bell

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Venus #3 (of 4)

Writer: Rick Loverd Artist: Huang Danlan

In the wake of a horrific tragedy, Pauline struggles to maintain order and keep the crew focused on survival.

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Venus #3 preview. Pauline struggles to keep the crew focused on survival #comics Venus #3 (of 4) Writer: Rick Loverd Artist: Huang Danlan In the wake of a horrific tragedy, Pauline struggles to maintain order and keep the crew focused on survival.

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Venus #2 (of 4)

Writer: Rick Loverd Artist: Huang Danlan

Pauline and the rest of the survivors from the Mayflower take stock of the base on Venus, but there’s a saboteur in their midst who’s sowing tension in the ranks.

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Venus #2 preview. There’s a saboteur who’s sowing tension in the ranks #comics Venus #2 (of 4) Writer: Rick Loverd Artist: Huang Danlan Pauline and the rest of the survivors from the Mayflower take stock of the base on Venus, but there’s a saboteur in their midst who’s sowing tension in the ranks.

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Venus #1 (of 4)

Writer: Rick Loverd Artist: Huang Danlan

In 2150, Earth’s resources are depleted, and countries race to outer space to mine what they need from other planets. China has laid claim to Mars, so the U.S. and its allies have to make do with getting what it needs from the inhospitable world of Venus. But for a group of Americans making its way there, survival has become all too real. After their ship crash-lands on the planet, the scrappy crew is forced to do whatever it takes to navigate the harsh landscape in their journey to find the science base they were flying toward. In the vein of great adventure survival stories like Lost and The Martian, there’s only one reality on Venus—adapt or die.

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Venus #1 preview. In 2150, Earth’s resources are depleted, and countries race to outer space #comics Venus #1 (of 4) Writer: Rick Loverd Artist: Huang Danlan In 2150, Earth’s resources are depleted, and countries race to outer space to mine what they need from other planets.