Got to give it to Amy Reeder, she can draw a 15’s emotions so well. I loved the art in this book. She gave characters nuisanced emotions. I don’t see that as often as I’d like within comics. The story wasn’t bad. I just wasn’t as hooked with it as I was with the art.

In the distant future of 2013, the world is run by a massive heartless megacorp, Quintum Mechanics. Also teenagers compose the entire police force, that doesn’t get explained well, something to do with corporate security having all the real authority and the police being glorified hall monitors…But anyhow rocket powered Detective Dayong Johansson is investigating the the board of QM for non-specific seediness related to their super-science and finds herself in the present day of 1986 when QM is just a start-up working out of a university lab. Rocket chases and colourful casts ensue.

The plot is scatter-shot and hard to follow even by the standards of time-travel fiction, I’m still puzzling out some stuff that happened in issue 5. But what really works is the cast, they’re a well-drawn, eccentric and always engaging, I just wish there was more direction from all of them. The present day grad students are introduced as babysitters to a burgeoning superhero Dayong, but that falls by the wayside fairly fast as they become set of talking heads endlessly asking if they should do something about all the madness around them.

The art is wonderful and dynamic and i could stare at some of the chase sequences for hours, there’s an excellent shift in colour palette between the 80’s and the future that at least the reader know when things are if not actually why.

Verdict: Try it. This is a bumpy start to something I sincerely hope improves over the next few issues.