Dan McDaid – arter
Rachelle Rosenberg – colorer
Rus Wooton – letterer
Dan McDaid & Rico Renzi – TPB coverer
Jonathan Chan – book designer & producer
Image Comics - publisher
Is Jersey Gods super popular? I feel like Jersey Gods should be super popular. It’s totally awesome. The TPB back cover sports gushing blurbs from Chris Sims, Mark Waid, and Kurt Busiek, and they all say it’s awesome, too. Maybe I just missed all the fanfare.
McDaid’s art is pretty stupendous. Beyond the exaggerated Kirbyism, his style seems inspired by the very people who contribute alternate covers to this volume: Darwyn Cooke, Paul Pope, Mike Allred, and Erik Larsen. (Thank you Jesus for back cover promotional text, I don’t have to think for myself!) That there is a righteous orgy of influence. McDaid’s panels are chaotic and frenzied and packed with action. Many panels do feature some cool background details, but the majority are awash with explosive coloring by Rosenberg.
The overall effect of the art is so overwhelmingly vibrant and kinetic, you might just gloss over the words, but don’t do that, the script is equally fucking great. Brunswick’s writing a good old fashioned cosmic love story & his characterization is unabashedly sensitive and sweet. Zoe is quirky and fun and bad at relationships and a (falsely) suspected lesbian. Barock and Helius are like Ted and Barney from How I Met Your Mother. Only, you know, gods and stuff.
So yeah, I’d give this a w with five es and an exclamation point – weeeee!
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