Comic Reviews: MPH #1

A comic by the guy who wrote Kick Ass (Mark Millar)? Where do I sign up??

I took a trip to local Comic Shop “Downtown Comics” yesterday and asked the lady at the front desk, recommend me some number ones to read. Well lady at the front desk who’s name I don’t know...THANKS!

MPH is a comic that I have been describing to the layman as a bastardized version of DC’s Flash Comic. By bastardized, I don’t mean stripped down..I mean you took Flash and turned him into a bad guy, a bastard. Hey..works for me.

MPH , from what I can gather from issue #1, there is a group, however few, that can move incredibly fast. So fast in fact that they can leave a burning trail behind them that can carve a large trail out of the state of Missouri.

Then we meet the protagonist, at first a lovable dreamer criminal who abruptly gets put in jail after one of his running mates deals all of the blame his direction so he can “screw his girl”. Right. Well, after getting in prison this is where he encounters the MPH drug and then badda bing badda boom he can run fast ‘n shit.

Now, I realize that earlier I said “Superhuman” and more recently I said “MPH drug and then badda bing badda boom he can run fast ‘n shit”, but that’s how the comic said it works in that particular chronological order.

Overall I enjoyed issue #1, the art style is fantastic and edgy and the story drives me to want to read more.