Welcome to the first Woman Warrior Wednesdays blog. Every Wednesday the world is flooded with new comic books. On Wednesdays, I will try to review a new comic that is either about a woman or written by a woman or illustrated by a woman in order to bring you a drop from the flood. My first comic book review is on Namora. Hope you like it.
Namora #1-Marvel Comics-$3.99
Stars: 3 out of 5.
Summary (Spoiler Alert):
Namora with the help of a whale saves sailors in a submarine that is running low on oxygen. The whale leads her to an old Atlantean settlement. There she runs into a kraken. She soon finds out that it guards the settlement, when some settlers stop her from fighting the kraken. Namora tries to convince the settlers to move to Oceanus, but they say they cannot go because they grow weak whenever they get to far away from their mineral well.
Inside the well, Namora sees her daughter, Namorita, who she thought was dead. She cannot leave the well or she’ll permanently go away. Namora lost track of her daughter, when Lyrrah trapped her in a tomb for 50 years. Namora was freed by a robot who thought that she must be alive. When Namora was free, she went to look for her daughter and learned that she had been in a town where an explosion had taken place during the civil war and thought she must be dead. Namora leaves Namorita, because she believes that she is just an illusion.
At the bottom of the well, Namora finds a giant kraken. She swims up to tell the Atlanteans what she has discovered. She was able to feel the kraken’s memories. It is what is keeping the Atlanteans from leaving the area. It is trying to recreate a world in which it used to be worshipped.
The smaller kraken that lives above the surface grabs Namora. The Atlanteans can get it to drop her. It has grown too strong. Its power is connected to the larger kraken and its influence. Namora, however, is strong and can breathe air, because of her mother’s side of the family. She carries the kraken up into the air and kills it. The Atlanteans no longer feel controlled by the well. Namora tells them to get ready immediately to leave for Oceanus.
Writer: Jeff Parker
Parker brings the whole world of Namora to life and gives the reader enough information to understand Namora, but the need to know more about her.
Cover Artist: Stephanie Hans
Hans magically encases Namora in water that seems to swim with her body and through her hair.
Pencils: Sara Pichelli
Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg
Pichelli and Rosenberg depict an amazing fighting woman, especially when Namora bursts through the floor of the submarine and when she kills the kraken. Underwater life is seen in their work on the Atlanteans and their settlement. The blue Atlanteans seem a little too Avatarish, but are still interesting characters. The giant kraken’s appearance automatically horrifies the reader in its great, scary detail, but not Namora.
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