Motor Crush, Vol. 1 - Review

Creators: Brenden Fletcher, Cameron Stewart, Babs Tarr

Publisher: Image Comics, Inc.

Released: June 2017

Woo! Time to revive an old blog. And what better way to do it than with a review of an awesome comic.

Motor Crush takes us to the city of Nova Honda, where motorcycle racing's the only game in town. Apart from the related gambling, of course. Be it legal, like the World Grand Prix, or not quite, like the gangs racing in the night, it's all controlled by the enigmatic Producers.

The story follows Domino Swift, or Dom for short, as she works to compete in the World Grand Prix (WGP). During the day, she trains and tweaks her bike with her dad, a WGP champion from years gone by. During the night, she competes against the plentiful biker gangs of Nova Honda for a price of Crush, an illegal accelerant that causes bikes to get addicted to it and if overdosed, causes them to twist out of shape. But Dom never uses Crush on her bike. Why does she need it so badly?

Motor Crush originally came onto my radar through Tumblr. Sure was a good thing to go back to that site, because this comic is rad. The comic is filled with action, speed and beautiful art, and its main character is a lesbian woman of colour, something I don't mind seeing more on my comics shelf.

As said before, this comic looks gorgeous, as one should expect from Babs Tarr (link to her Tumblr), who has previously worked on DC's Batgirl (2014-2016). The art is delightfully detailed without cluttering itself. And the colours. The colours have a glow to them. And I don't just mean the neon pink especially prominent in the night scenes. Honestly, if I had just seen the art and not even heard that it includes lesbian characters, I might have bought it anyhow.

The story did leave me wondering about somethings. Is the race related slang (for example, "gotta streak" = "gotta run/go") just used in Nova Honda or in the world at large as well? What makes machines "addicted"? These are probably questions that will be answered in the coming chapters, which I will get to read in June of this year once Volume 2 comes out. If you don't want to wait even that long, single issues are available through Amazon at least.

Motor Crush Vol. 1 is available on Amazon for £6.74 for the physical copy or £5.54 for the Kindle edition at the time of writing this review.

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