Origins #1

This opening issue of BOOM! Studios' six-part series sets a striking tone right from its Jakub Rebelka cover: a lone, masked figure — white-haired, draped in a pale cloak, and gripping an ornate red staff — sits amid a lush green overgrowth reclaiming the ruins of a collapsed civilization. The juxtaposition of vibrant nature pressing in against crumbling architecture and scattered machinery gives the image a haunting, elegiac beauty that feels both post-apocalyptic and oddly tranquil. With Clay McLeod Chapman writing and Rebelka's vivid colors brought to life by Patricio Delpeche, Origins #1 arrives as one of 2020's more visually arresting new series.