Eureka

Issue 1

This begins a very serious storyline in the comic. Carter gets notified of a hostage situation at the school, and the hostage is Zoe. He gets there with Jo outside with a sniper scope. The guy inside is obviously insane. Joe has a chance to take a shot but she doesn't take it, but Carter shoots the guy in the head.

That normally should have settled it, but the guy gets back up later. Then the story goes in to the back history of Jo and the mad man.

Issue 2

The cover art is done really well on both the A and the B covers.

In the second issue the mad man keeps on the move. More of his back story is revealed. The thug ends up kidnapping Allison and she wrecks her car on purpose but it doesn't stop the guy as it has become obvious there is no ordinary way of killing him.

Issue 3

The third issue dealing with the guy that can't seem to be destroyed. A bazooka is used and makes a sizable hole in him, but the stuff in his body heals the hole and he keeps on moving. He kills a wolf, beats up Jo and Carter, and takes Allison prisoner.

Issue 4

More about the indestructible man's back story. He gets into GD and again reveals his intention to harm other people. His actual purpose is revealed and Jo, Carter and Allison agree to let him do what he has wanted to do all along.

More about the indestructible man's back story. He gets into GD and again reveals his Basically the arc has been about experimentation on soldiers which reflects things done in real life. The government has even done experiments on regular people and it's years if ever before those kind of things are finally revealed.

Dominant Gene #1

The specific one I'm reviewing is the one with Zoe on the cover. I think the artwork is really well done. The inside artwork as okay; most of the characters are recognizable.

Zoe and her father are having another argument, which is nothing unusual. Zoe feels out of place at the high school since she doesn't feel she's as smart as the other students there. Then Joe gets mad at Zoe telling her that she turned down Joe's cousin for a date, but Zoe says she was never asked.

Some of the classes are shown and there are incredibly advanced compared to the average high school class. Then she meets a guy that seems interesting to her, but he isn't very nice to her. Then there's the problem of the giant girl in the school who runs amok and the statue that just about squishes Zoe.

A rather interesting beginning.

Dominant Gene #2

The issue starts with one student talking to a counselor. He's obsessed with a girl he's seen- Zoe. The guy is not much in the looks department, though, so he decides to start experimenting and develops a material that can alter genes and give people whatever characteristics they want; be taller, change hair color, etc. He's also able to make a good deal of money selling the stuff.

He takes the stuff himself and changes his appearance, then takes Zoe somewhere private. It's also obvious that the guy is starting to go nutso.

Dominant Gene #3

This one has another well-drawn cover with Zoe on it. The kid from the drama class shows up to talk to Carter and he tells him some truth but usually exaggerates tremendously fitting various film plots into what he's saying. Meanwhile, the guy with Zoe is beginning to freak out as is the drama class guy in the sheriff's office.

A look outside shows a lot of kids beginning to resemble something like vampires.

Dominant Gene #4

Zoe as drawn on cover A has one eye that looks rather strange (the right one as you are looking at her.)

The students that have mutated are totally out of control and it seems that the only way to deal with them is to get them into one area and to expose them to a neutralizing chemical that can be carried in the rain. This involves the girl who was a giant becoming a giant again.

The student that started the entire mess is in school and is totally insane, but Zoe is able to put him in his place.

What is sort of odd is that there seems to be no form of discipline at the school. The guy who started the entire mess should, at the very least, have been suspended for a long time or better yet expelled. What he did endangered other students and the town at large.

Brain Box Blues

The story is based on what happened in an actual episode when people were supposed to put their favorite memory of Eureka into a sphere. In this case, though, the military has a box that can capture all of a person's memories, even if they just recently died. They have the memories from someone and they want Eureka to find a way to make those memories useful. Meanwhile, Fargo, Zoe and others are doing experiments involving remote viewing.

The find out Jo had taken part in a military project involving remote viewing and also trying to influence a person remotely. Meanwhile, an experiment with the brain box goes wrong and Lucas is hurt. Some kind of electrical surge also goes through Cafe Diem.

Zoe and her boyfriend are having problems. Suddenly Vincent is getting orders wrong and other people start behaving somewhat differently than they normally do. Something goes wrong with Lucas and he passes out.

One of the guys working on the project has major ethical and moral issues with being able to obtain the last memories of a person just before they died.

The situation gets worse when a certain woman shows up and the military and her order the arrest of the scientist who opposes what the military plans to use the brain box for. Then there's at attempt to kill Carter and others, Mansfield and other military people all around, Lucas dying and Fargo wanting to press a button.

This is a vast improvement over the first book in the series (Substitution Method) and is much more like the original series in pacing and character behavior.


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