This series continues to surprise me...The volume increases the pace and mystery of the first. The war between countries back home is a new story line I really enjoyed, I was enjoying the ‘space story’ more in volume 1 but it evened out in this volume!The story in space reveals tiny bits and pieces but just enough to make you desperate to see what’s happening with this ‘alien life’I’m going to have to go straight into volume 3, and I’ve just ordered 4,5 and 6. If it keeps on the course it’s goin...

Good luck putting this one down. Once you open it up, you're committed. I really enjoyed the first installment of Soule's space opera, and volume two builds on each perfect element of the first in every direction. Every issue ends with a compelling cliffhanger, expertly balancing the House of Cards style political drama with the all-too-realistic first contact endeavors of the crew of the Clarke. We get our best look at the aliens yet, and the distribution of pathos is just enough to keep reader...

Tension, lots of slow-building tension. Even before this book was done for me, I was sure it wouldn't resolve any of the big questions: who will win in the battle between 43 and 44? Will the alien Chandelier turn out to be a weapon or a communication device (or something else)? How will international tensions be eased? Will the U.S. (and the world) survive? Even one issue in, Soule's masterful, deliberately slow but progressive unspooling of the plots is painful...because it's impossible to let

Charles Soule kicks the story into gear with a spectacular 2nd volume! Every time a storyline is looking a little stale he does something to change the entire playing field and keep readers on their toes! The alien threat is changing, and the lines between heroes and villains become blurred. The aliens are fucking rad! I'm loving the way they look, the way they communicate and just about everything about them. Charles Soule is really impressing me, and I'm so uncertain where this is going in the...

House of Cards meets Interstellar. Solid title.

Letter 44 Vol. 2 Redshift collects issues 8-13 of the series written by Charles Soule and art by Alberto Jimenez Albuquerque. President Blake has decided to prepare informing the world about the aliens hiding in asteroid belt. But first he has to take care of some loose ends on Earth, including ending a war by using some of the technology created if they ever have to battle the aliens. Meanwhile, the crew of the Clark continue to investigate the alien presence but the Clark continues to fall apa...

The setup for the series: the first non-white President of the United States, Blades, inherits war in the Middle East and an economy in free fall. He learns from former President Carroll in a letter that the reason for the wars and the financial meltdown has to do with a massive secret: there are aliens camped out in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and they’re assembling what looks to be a giant weapon or mining tool. A ship - the Clarke - was dispatched years ago to make contact with...

Still a very entertaining "House of Cards"/"2001: A Space Odyssey" mash-up, but this time around from a visual perspective at least the quality seems to have taken a step down as a lot of the art feels...perhaps "rushed" is the right word? Still, definitely worth a read- Charles Soule is on quite roll!

This series is KICKING MY ASS! So good. A mix of the expanse meets house of cards and more! LOVE IT!

President Blades makes a (not approved by Congress!) reveal to the world hoping to end the ongoing wars, but the most dangerous force in the world throws a huge spanner in the works. And in Washington his team goes all out to neuter Congress. In space it's looking FUBAR!The second volume maintains the integrity of the first and builds on it. The slower approach to the tension and issues in space works very well. But yet again it's the politics that grabs my attention as the games of faux transpa...

I may have rated this higher, except by halfway through I was so annoyed by how the artist depicted the 3 women in this book that I couldn't get into the story. Not sure I'll read further.

Awesome fun sci-fi series that continues to entertain in Vol. 2. The writing & artwork are both fantastic, combine that with the fact that it's about aliens building something in the outer solar system, & possibly invading earth or possibly doing something else entirely,....its not an original idea but its still one of the best ideas as far as I'm concerned. Looking forward to Vol. 3!

Out in the asteroid belt, the aliens who have been lurking, unknown to everyone except a very small section of the US establishment, are stirring. And when I say 'stirring', what I mean is that Jupiter is now down a moon, though not one of the famous ones, and it's not like it doesn't have plenty left. Meanwhile, on Earth, President Blades has deployed the top secret technology his predecessor was stockpiling against the extraterrestrial threat in order to get the US out of its various overseas

Who Has the Biggest Gun?Spoilers ahead.The premise: Oh no, mysterious aliens are building a gigantic gun in the asteroid belt, do we have enough fire power to defeat them? Mr. President, to the rescue! By the end of this volume we learn that those aliens may actually have come to save us from “something worse” out there, a plot twist that neither comes as a big surprise nor fundamentally changes things: something very bad is still approaching Planet Earth. I guess Mr. President now has to team u...

The story continues with Earth coming to grips with Alien problem. Except only the US has been prepping for the alien invasion and that R&D is churning out next gen weapons. In space the crew has come close to the alien ship and a rather interesting set of events begin to develop.This is the 2nd volume of this sci-fi opera. Filled with terrible people (I'm still trying to find one person, just ONE of any country/race/etc. that isn't either a fool or an awful person) these people do not really br...

So, I didn't like the set up very much but this volume turned my whole view of this series around, in part because the story 1) involves surprises and 2) I like the aliens (which is also connected to the surprises and the premise as it gets better revealed), and 3) the storytelling tightens up after all the exposition of volume one and it becomes pretty much a grabber. With the pace picking up and the action intensifying, the artwork of Alburquerque seems to have stepped up, too. I don't lean to...

Blades is antagonizing some of his subordinates and the public at large with the way he handles updating the army capabilities using the weapons developed in secret by the former president. Carroll didn't step out of the game completely after being threatened by Blades. He is gathering allies to oppose the current president who is losing ground image-wise. The war is also looking worse when a nuclear weapon destroys most of the new hardware.(view spoiler)[Blades finds himself under impeachment e...

I was leaning towards a 3 (blah blah, shouldn't review with numbers, blah blah, it helps me categorize how I felt), but the last issue raised it toward a 4. For now, at least.A volume mostly about escalation, i.e., when we try to counter a threat, who is going to counter our power, ended up being about who the threat was countering in the first place. Actually, summing it up that way, I think I will actually rate this a 3, but that doesn't signify my disinterest in continuing. Rather, I think th...

WOW for a second Vol of a story, this was just too good to be true.The present President of the USA has learned from the previous administration that an Alien race has planted it self around Jupiter's orbit, the same administration sent a ship of astronauts/soldiers to find out why and they have been keeping it a secret. On top of all that the President is trying desperately to bring back American soldiers safely from an on going war in Afghanistan. In the mean time The First Lady may have to sl...