HEADS

“Headspace” #1 is yet another solid debut from Monkeybrain, features the writing of Ryan K. Lindsay and art from the tag team of Eric Zawadzki and Chris Peterson with a color assist from Marissa Louise. Lindsay and company provide the most information about Shane, but he really becomes the hero of the story only by default. As Lindsay states through Shane, he’s not sure why he’s there or who put him there. Shane lives in a fairly tranquil community known as Carpenter Cove. At least it’s tranquil until the story pulls back and shows readers the big picture. That big picture includes dragons and demon monkeys, flying patrol bikes and cybernetic bartending dogs. It’s a trip to loo at, and the story around the imagery never quite comes together enough in “Headspace” #1 to do anything except trigger questions and induce wild wonderings. Lindsay handles most of the story through caption boxes, which keeps the “Headspace” #1 rolling along and enables his artists to pepper the readers with

Since Brandon Graham’s “Multiple Warheads” one-shot five years ago (and a short story before that), his career has exploded a bit; first with the successful “King City” from TokyoPop and then Image, followed by relaunching “Prophet” into the best science-fiction comic currently being published. Now Graham brings the title back with “Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity,” the first of a series of mini-series. And if anything it’s even more inventive than I remembered. If this is your first experience with “Multiple Warheads” you don’t need to worry; not only is there only a little material already out there, but Graham brings you up to speed on the few things you do need to know about Sexica, Nikolai, and Nura. The reason why it’s just a few things is that in part half of the fun of “Multiple Warheads: Alphabet to Infinity” #1 is just soaking up the strange world that Graham’s created as his characters make their way through it. The book opens and closes with Nik and Sex traveling