Michael Moreci: My influences are all over the map, to be honest. What genres and influences are evident in “Roche Limit: Clandestiny”? What were your influences while writing “Roche Limit”? The first volume had a great blend of science fiction and noir and “Roche Limit: Clandestiny” is quite different from the first volume. Make sure you pick up a copy of “Roche Limit, Volume 1” and reserve a copy of “Roche Limit: Clandestiny”, which is released on May 6, from your local comic book shop. Just below our interview, check out five exclusive pages from “Roche Limit: Clandestiny” #1, and check back later today for an opportunity to win some cool “Roche Limit” swag! Moreci was nice enough to let me interview him about the “Roche Limit,” its influences, and the amazing collaborators he gets to work with on the series. Titled “Roche Limit: Clandestiny,” the first issue takes a different direction and look, with volume one artist Vic Malhotra passing art duties on to Kyle Charles. Writer Michael Moreci follows up the first part of his “Roche Limit” trilogy, “Anomalous,” with volume two in May. Intriguing storytelling, gorgeous art, and dynamic colors made up a science fiction story that coaxed you into pondering deeper meanings while having a fun time. This inventive and existential series concludes in Monadic.“Roche Limit” was one of my favorite series of 2014 for good reason. Anyone who considered the conclusion to Anomalous tugged at the heartstrings will double their empathy here. Clandestiny supplies heroism in spades, and it’s incredibly moving. A significant majority of comics deal in superheroes, yet the heroic aspect of the equation is often trivial. There are threads that follow through, almost exclusively in the penultimate chapter, but they’re secondary to other strands. There’s a constant threat of foreboding as we know from the early stages that one character has an agenda kept secret from the remaining cast, yet is this threatening or benign?Īnyone expecting an immediate follow-up to events of Anomalous may be disappointed, but that stood alone, as does this. Everyone grieves in some respect, and the mission commander spends time each day pondering the religious trinkets carried by crew members who’ve died under his command. Moreci also packs his plot with well conceived character touches. Danger isn’t ever-present, so the cast have the time to question themselves and each other, to consider what really matters to them. Whereas Anomalous began as a crime story before building into something else, Clandestiny is an altogether more contemplative form of science fiction. Moreci has some questions to ask of us, and paces his material to ensure the time to raise them. It’s complicated by the only person still remaining on the planet being a celebrity of sorts, an artificial human first embraced and then disgraced, and believed to have been executed.Īnomalous dragged in places, but Clandestiny is a step up. Moreci recreates the classic situation of overconfident military up against the unknown, the template that began with Alien, but that’s just shorthand for the mood he gestates as the threat the crew face is very different. They’re enhanced by the solid gloomy colouring of Matt Batagglia. They also have life and character via posture and expression, and although Charles’ backgrounds are spartan they’re all that’s required to set the scene. ![]() He’s from the school of murk, his cast constantly bathed in shade, but that’s ideal for setting the tension of the unknown. Kyle Charles as artist is a vast improvement on the previous book. I know that your line of work is about inquiry and investigation, and that’s fine, but my job is to follow orders.” is the best response they get from the mission commander. “I’m not in the business of asking questions. When the ship is fired upon from Dispater it raises concerns among the scientists. ![]() Scientists intending to explore mines accompany a military team with orders to deposit a cargo. Michael Moreci introduces his wildly differing cast who scrub along without necessarily liking each other much. ![]() ![]() The opening sequences occur on a spacecraft heading off on a vague mission to Dispater, the planet at the centre of introductory volume Anomalous, but it’s almost a century later. That was grand scale space opera constructed from small building blocks, but we’re in different territory. Clandestiny has a very different feel from our introduction to Roche Limit.
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