BRZRKR Vol. 1

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I was prepared not to like this, but I wasn’t prepared to like it. Which I did. Like a good action film, it might be simple but it was an enjoyable enough way to past the time. BRZRKR Vol.1 does not have much to offer on the narrative angle, however, it is filled with vibrant art that screams action, violence and gore-fest. It's not a great book, neither a bad one - it's just too shallow - that I hope improves going forward. That said, there are things that will take a good action movie and take it to being a great movie- characterization, dialogue, plot and though we are just at the beginning of the story, I don’t think we will get to that level.

Huh...ok then. I've seen my GR friends talk about this comic (Anne actually drew my attention to it). So I read the first volume. It introduces this, so far, unnamed character who seems to be unkillable. He later implies he is immortal.Nevertheless, once the rage comes over him, he is a formidable weapon. The problem? It's not what he wants.

A WAR WITH NO END. The man known only as B. is half-mortal and half-God, cursed and compelled to violence…even at the sacrifice of his sanity. But after wandering the world for centuries, the Berzerker may have finally found a refuge – working for the U.S. government to fight the battles too violent and too dangerous for anyone else. In exchange, B. will be granted the one thing he desires – the truth about his endless blood-soaked existence…and how to end it. Definitely not for the squeamish, this one: the art is all blood and bones and eyeballs and violent red slashes. Gruesome, though it's a sketchy kind of style so it's not quite as confronting. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review* The biggest comic book event of the year is Keanu Reeves’s BRZRKR. While there has always been celebrity tie ins from Alice Cooper and KISS to CM Punk and the Ultimate Warrior to Kevin Smith and George Romero to Brandon Sanderson and Orson Scott Card to Gerard Way and Joss Whedon among many others. Various levels of involvement and talent.

If you can get past the gratuitous violence, it has some great themes- the hero's birth and crossing the threshold of manhood, the death of the parents or guardians, the eternal war of the uncivilized portion of the psyche and the civilized part.

I love you, K-Reeves. I don't care if saying lines isn't your thing. You're a beautiful human being and I'll watch anything with you in it. Amen. Apparently, his mother prayed for a weapon to deliver her people from marauding tribes, and ended up with a lightning bolt to the twat that impregnated her with a BRZRKR baby. Did I read this because of Keanu Reeves? Yes. Was I surprised? No. Was I blown away? No. Was it super bloody and gory. Yep. Do I need the next volume in the series? YEP. Artwork wasn't my favourite but it does work really well for this story. I think a more realistic style would have won me over completely but as it stands it was a great, brutal read that I very much enjoyed. Really, people, it's a totally angry and tired immortal written by and featuring Keanu. Sorry, I mean, Tool/Weapon. :) And that's what he is in the comic, a tool by the US Gov but a tool since his birth 80k years ago, never dying, fed on bloodshed, and now just wanting to be mortal.

The first chapter is sprint through his latest mission single handedly taking out a whole army to destroy a dictator.

Keanu Charles Reeves is a Canadian actor. Born in Beirut and raised in Toronto, Reeves began acting in theatre productions and in television films before making his feature film debut in Youngblood (1986). He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), and he reprised his role in its sequels. He gained praise for playing a hustler in the independent drama My Own Private Idaho (1991) and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break (1991) and Speed (1994). The story is fantastic and I was hooked immediately - our protagonist is a violent, unkillable man who wants to die. He's working with a scientist to dig further into his past and figure out a cure. Meantime, he's the military's secret weapon - just as he has been for many cultures over the past 80,000 years. Aah, yes, the comic every Keanu Reeves fan across the planet has been clamouring to read. Moronically titled BRZRKR, it's been hilarious watching everyone struggle to spell it; is it BRZKR? BZKR? BRZRK? What a kerfuffle!BRZRKR: Fallen Empire is written by Reeves and Mattson Tomlin and drawn by Rebekah Isaacs, with colors by Jordie Bellaire. Boom's official description reads, "The lone survivor of Olos, a long-dead–once thriving–empire, tells a tale of B.’s distant past and the death and cataclysm he brought forth. But what did B. find that could have driven him to such violent ends? The desires of the heart are as much a weapon as any in B.’s arsenal…"