10-Page Preview! From the ashes of Steve Dowling’s “Garth” comes?”FREEMAN of the Armed Services,” Huw-J-‘s critically acclaimed web comic that originally re-launched the adventures of the Daily Mirror syndicate’s action and adventure hero. Incorporating the story arcs “Gold of Ragnarock” and “King of New York,” both which hearken back to the good old days where the spirit of adventure and good old-fashioned action reigned supreme. A true British hero!

Let me start this review by saying that this one is just a preview for the entire comic book. And I read it because I wanted to see if the full comic book was worth the money and time I would spend on it. And I’m gonna give you the answer for that at the end of this review.

This preview has is a sharp, human-centered military drama which has a lot of aspects of duty, identity, and fallout which in my opinion has given this preview more depth and interest at least for me.

As a preview, it’s lean but evocative like establishing tone, stakes, and a compelling lead. But at the same time this preview is hinting at deeper institutional and personal conflicts to come.

This preview focuses mostly on Freeman’s inner and outer battles, grounding the military backdrop in lived-in detail rather than jargon dumps. Which in a way makes this preview easily too follow because it doesn’t overwhelm us as readers on giving us as many details and information within the 10 pages span of this preview. 

This preview has pretty clean and purposeful pacing. The scenes in this preview with intent because they offer us interaction to the full comic book and this preview also gives us hooks which at least got me personally interested in reading the full version of this comic book.

The plot of this preview ask questions on service, loyalty, and reintegration which gives this preview more depth and personality to it which I really liked. 

All the small details in this preview like procedures, dialogue cadence, and small cultural makes this preview feel credible, lending the world a steady realism.

This preview gives us a pretty good restrained palette and unfussy layouts support the grounded mood. Action beats read crisply; quieter panels use negative space effectively.

So will buy and read the full version of this comic book ? Yes I will. It might take some time for me to actually read the full version of this comic book because I have been way too optimistic when creating my TBR list for this year and I don’t know if I get the time to read the full version of this comic book this year. But I will read the full version of this comic book at some point in time.

I Give This Book 4 / 5