X Isle #2
Written by Andrew Cosby and Michael Alan Nelson

Drawn by Greg Scott, Cover by Ray of Imaginary Friends Studios
$2.99

"From the creator of Sci-Fi Network series Eureka! The expedition to a mysterious island gets more desperate now. With options rapidly narrowing, our team begins to fall victim to the creatures on the island. What is their secret? What's the truth behind Island X and the mysteries that it holds? The second exciting chapter in a new Jurassic Park-styled adventure with a dark, mysterious, horrific core!"

And that is just the press release from Boom! Studios second issue of X Isle. With a title like that, I almost expect the bad guys to be a mind controlled Wolverin…. What? I can't say that because of copyright law? Crap.
Anyway, what we have here is a mix of Jurassic Park and King Kong, and done in a way to make a movie seem needed. The cast as drawn already reminds me of certain characters, Samuel Jackson as Marcus, the Rock as Benga, Jessica Alba as Sarah. Not sure about the other characters yet.
But along with that is the writing. Now, while I am a fan of the show Eureka the writing sometimes has let me down. It seems now and then that the 'grabber' or the bad guy is always easy to figure out way in the start of the episode. Sure, I know the same writers are not on every episode, and Cosby probably has not written anymore episodes since the pilot, but you get the idea.
However with X Isle, that problem is gone. Maybe it is because they are two different styles of medium or maybe it would be better if Eureka was shot more like '24' but in X Isle, Andy Cosby and Michael Alan Nelson have crafted a beautiful story with family problems, a cocksure captain, and a comedy sidekick and made them not what you might have anticipated.
Sure, the premise is one we are used to. But the story tends to make one overlook the familiar and dwell on the fantastic. Which is what a good Comic story is supposed to do.
The art by Greg Scott is nothing short of great. Moody, mysterious even scary at time.
He seems to be able quite accurately to capture the mood on the facial expressions of each person involved.
X Isle is a first class story and if you are not reading it, the question you should be asking is 'Why not?'