American Ronin takes place in a corporate world.

[thanekos]

It's about the parts that make up those wholes.

It's written by Peter Milligan and drawn by ACO.

The story they're telling, of the titular character and the vengeance he's pursuing against the people he once worked for, doesn't waste a single panel.

There's a sequence in issue #1 that's a great example of that - it's after the Ronin's acquired what he needs.





He had Cornell's fear..



.. and Cornell's ear.



(You look at ACO's work on other books, like Midnighter with Steve Orlando and Astonishing X-Men with Charles Soule, and you can really see that he likes the tight close-ups.)



(ACO's use of close-ups, which are sometimes borderline jarring, work excellently in a scene like this.)



The Ronin watched Cornell die..



.. and then escaped to stay alive.



(Pagecount's 8 of 25. Issue #3 came out this week.

Inks're David Lorenzo, colors're Dean White, and letters're Sal Cipriano.

Publisher's AWA.)

Comments

[tcampbell1000]

It's a minor ding, but... "KKKLLMMMPPPPP?" Apparently the sound of someone hitting the pavement starts out like radio static, then turns into somebody swallowing and blowing me a raspberry. (Some letters just can't be stretched out.)

[panthyr]

90 seconds? Really?

[erikred]

A quick web search for free fall calculators with air resistance says that's a fall of 4674 m. The current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, is 828 m (including the antenna).

Also, US FAA regulations say that "No person may operate a civil aircraft of U.S. registry at cabin pressure altitudes above 12,500 feet (MSL) up to and including 14,000 feet (MSL) unless the required minimum flight crew is provided with and uses supplemental oxygen for that part of the flight at those altitudes that is of more than 30 minutes duration." So while you *could* open a window at that altitude (for a short amount of time), it's highly likely that you really, really wouldn't want to.