The gambit pays off as Sanz’s beautifully detailed work offers up pieces of a puzzle that aren’t presented in his dialogue. Each scene has its own color tone, mostly sticking to that monochrome look that worked so well on the cover but then throwing in occasionally contrasting colors to highlight a plot point. As I’m typing up this review, I’m going back over the first two issues and still finding things that pop out at me. Salvador Sanz works his craft to pull the reader’s eye over the page, whether it’s a series of panels, pretty standard but rarely a simple grid layout, or full-page spreads. Diving into the first issue, I was pretty happy to see that much of the style on that cover is upheld throughout the book. That image, with its low angled perspective and monochromatic color scheme, wasting no time at all to reveal the title attraction… it all came together and I had to see more. Like I said, the cover on Mega was the first hook to reel me in. Granted, it doesn’t always work, but when it does it’s something just shy of sorcery. So on top of my previously stated interest in stories about giant monsters rampaging through tiny human cities- a thing born of many Sunday mornings as a kid, lounging on the living room floor & watching Godzilla and Gamera movies with my Dad- I’m also kind of a sucker for comic creators who can handle both the writing and the illustration on a book. Getting me from there to issue 2 was a matter of some interesting myth-building and some really gorgeous art.Īll of this is compliments of Argentinian creator Salvador Sanz, the talent behind titles Legion& Angela Della Morte. See, if you’re anything at all like me you’re already looking at the headline of this review and thinking, “Dude, you had me at kaiju.” The cover of the first issue was all it took, and I knew I was going to be diving into this title from Red 5 & Stonebot Comics. Okay, we the readers know, but that’s only because we’re savvy, smart, and there’s a gnarly giant kaiju right there on the cover of the book. When Tina and her father get a look at some of the items left behind by her grandfather, it becomes apparent that no one is prepared for what’s fast-approaching the South American continent. At around that same time, a massive fissure splits the face of Antarctica to reveal something alien… and gigantic. An explorer and archeologist (I think… more on that in a bit), his boat went missing in the middle of the ocean.

While visiting with her Dad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, young Tina finds out that her grandfather has gone missing. English Translation by Leandro Paolini Somers.

Legion by Salvador Sanz