Manifest Destiny Volume 1 Flora and Fauna TPB

Manifest Destiny VOL 1 Flora & Fauna

Image Comics

Off and on for the past 5 years I have had people talk about how Manifest Desting from Image was a neat twist on a historical adventure comic.

Last year I was at the  nearest Books a Million and  found vol 1 on their used shelf. I think I paid 5 bucks,cover price is 10 bucks. Then it got put into the TPB/Hardcover/OGN read pile. 

And got forgotten about until today. Sure it is summer but there was enough breeze to make it bareably to sit out  on the pier. I brought a huge stack of comics with me and Manifest Destiny Vol 1 caught my eye. So put on some music and 30 minutes later I was looking to  see if the rest of the series is out in  tpbs and how much it is gonna cost me. Cause damn folks this is good.

Written by Chris DIngess with Matthew Roberts handling  pencils and  inks Manifest Destiny started at Image in 2014. In the series you are following  Lewis&Clark as they explode the mid west/western part of the  USA.

With in the first 3 pages we get hints that something isn't right. Cause while this comic is based on  actual history,they add a nice twist.

They dock their boat and head to a nearby fort. Which is the furthest west settlement in the US. Here is where Lewis and Clark are suppose to meet Sacagawea. 

On the land they get attacked by a creature that is part horse,part man and part buffalo. Yea not a minotaur not a centuar but some weird hybrid.

When they make it to the fort it appears to be abandoned. Until a few of the guys,while looking for supplies,discover that some of the  fort denizens are still around but now look like  Swamp Thing.

So now our group adventurers are stuck in the  fort,cause a pile of the Buffalo-taurs have surrounded it. And got a pile of these planet people in the  fort after them. Shooting the plant people does nothing. Cutting them up just makes the parts cut off come alive and attack. They figure out that fire works. And this is when a few of the survivors from the  Fort appear.

The survivors explain how some kind of infection hit and turns you inside and out into a plant based life form. Who all share one mind. 

The group is worried about how they will survive,cause while they  can handle the plant people in the fort. They doubt thhey can get around the Buffalo-taurs. And have a very limited amount of food left.

Our leads come up with a decent plan. Having 5 people sneak out and lead the buffalo-taurs one way while the rest run  for the ships.

They are about to execute the  plan when  Sacagawea shows up. She has killed all the Buffalo-taurs. And wow there is a great scene showing her killing them  looks like  something out of a John Woo Hong Kong  action movie.

After making  it back to the  boats. And digging out some greek fire from the ships storage,they  plan on going and burning all the plant people. To try to prevent this infection from  spreading. It  kind of reminds me of kudzu. 

Anyone that gets the  plant people liquid on them  will turn into one and it works the same on animals. So  you  get a scene with a plant possessed deer.

And a great scene where one of the  good guys meets a plant possessed skunk

Lewis and  Clark get captured by the big plant that is the  hive mind of the plant people. And it's plan is like the killer plant from that one Superman annual that Alan Moore wrote. IE give the victims their heart's desires while the plant feeds off their bodies.

Native American  Ninja Sacagawea comes and saves our leads. And this trade  ends with her joining the group as they plan  on  leaving the next morning to finish their expadittion.

Really Really hoping this series is either over or near ending. Cause I plan on ordering all the tpbs at once and spending say 4 days just reading this series.

Never heard of the writer or the artist on the series. But the writer has a good way with dialogue. And the artist makes all the scenes full of 100 shades of green be super interesting to stare at.

Manifest Destiny VOL 1 Flora & Fauna gets a A.

                                                

Manifest Destiny VOL 1 Flora & Fauna

Image Comics

Off and on for the past 5 years I have had people talk about how Manifest Desting from Image was a neat twist on a historical adventure comic.

Last year I was at the  nearest Books a Million and  found vol 1 on their used shelf. I think I paid 5 bucks,cover price is 10 bucks. Then it got put into the TPB/Hardcover/OGN read pile. 

And got forgotten about until today. Sure it is summer but there was enough breeze to make it bareably to sit out  on the pier. I brought a huge stack of comics with me and Manifest Destiny Vol 1 caught my eye. So put on some music and 30 minutes later I was looking to  see if the rest of the series is out in  tpbs and how much it is gonna cost me. Cause damn folks this is good.

Written by Chris DIngess with Matthew Roberts handling  pencils and  inks Manifest Destiny started at Image in 2014. In the series you are following  Lewis&Clark as they explode the mid west/western part of the  USA.

With in the first 3 pages we get hints that something isn't right. Cause while this comic is based on  actual history,they add a nice twist.

They dock their boat and head to a nearby fort. Which is the furthest west settlement in the US. Here is where Lewis and Clark are suppose to meet Sacagawea. 

On the land they get attacked by a creature that is part horse,part man and part buffalo. Yea not a minotaur not a centuar but some weird hybrid.

When they make it to the fort it appears to be abandoned. Until a few of the guys,while looking for supplies,discover that some of the  fort denizens are still around but now look like  Swamp Thing.

So now our group adventurers are stuck in the  fort,cause a pile of the Buffalo-taurs have surrounded it. And got a pile of these planet people in the  fort after them. Shooting the plant people does nothing. Cutting them up just makes the parts cut off come alive and attack. They figure out that fire works. And this is when a few of the survivors from the  Fort appear.

The survivors explain how some kind of infection hit and turns you inside and out into a plant based life form. Who all share one mind. 

The group is worried about how they will survive,cause while they  can handle the plant people in the fort. They doubt thhey can get around the Buffalo-taurs. And have a very limited amount of food left.

Our leads come up with a decent plan. Having 5 people sneak out and lead the buffalo-taurs one way while the rest run  for the ships.

They are about to execute the  plan when  Sacagawea shows up. She has killed all the Buffalo-taurs. And wow there is a great scene showing her killing them  looks like  something out of a John Woo Hong Kong  action movie.

After making  it back to the  boats. And digging out some greek fire from the ships storage,they  plan on going and burning all the plant people. To try to prevent this infection from  spreading. It  kind of reminds me of kudzu. 

Anyone that gets the  plant people liquid on them  will turn into one and it works the same on animals. So  you  get a scene with a plant possessed deer.

And a great scene where one of the  good guys meets a plant possessed skunk

Lewis and  Clark get captured by the big plant that is the  hive mind of the plant people. And it's plan is like the killer plant from that one Superman annual that Alan Moore wrote. IE give the victims their heart's desires while the plant feeds off their bodies.

Native American  Ninja Sacagawea comes and saves our leads. And this trade  ends with her joining the group as they plan  on  leaving the next morning to finish their expadittion.

Really Really hoping this series is either over or near ending. Cause I plan on ordering all the tpbs at once and spending say 4 days just reading this series.

Never heard of the writer or the artist on the series. But the writer has a good way with dialogue. And the artist makes all the scenes full of 100 shades of green be super interesting to stare at.

Manifest Destiny VOL 1 Flora & Fauna gets a A.