Charles Soule and Rafael Albuquerque, both of whom became mainstays at Marvel produced this series in their spare time earlier on in their careers - what is essentially a science fiction political mystery drama! The outgoing President hands over a letter to the incoming President to explain why he got America involved with two ongoing wars and massively increased military spending... it was because he had evidence of aliens building something in the Asteroid belt!!!The book then goes on to portr...

Three and a half stars.WARNING! BIG TIME SPOILERS ABOUND!How scary can an alien be if you can figure out the cubic space he takes up with a math formula?Take the formula for figuring out the volume of a cone – then take the formula for figuring out a sphere – take half the volume for the sphere and add it to your solution for the cone and you have your big scary alien. Oooh, Geometry gone wild, run for your lives. It's a polygon! Hah!Then: Laser beams! Ouch! Exploding stuff! Ouch! Death ray! Ouc...

Space! Aliens! Government conspiracy! Political allegory! Letter 44 is a legitimately expert written, multi-level political thriller and space adventure. Charles Soule is on point here with his fantastic dialog, plotting, characterization, and visual details. Even the way the story literally unfolds as you turn the page is precisely written, with that Chief of Staff shocker! I've read a good number of space/sci-fi/mindfuck books and this is among the best. Newly inaugurated black President Steph...

Letter 44 is equal parts space adventure and politics, an odd mix that somehow works perfectly. Roughly half of the story is with the intrepid crew of the Clarke, on a mission to discover what mysterious thing a mysterious intelligence is building, pointed at Earth. The other half of the story is with new president Stephen Blades, stepping into office after a very Bush-like president. And believe it or not, the political part is just as interesting and just as much fun to read as the space adven...

A comic about alien invasion with political turns and twists! A great combo that always interests me! Captivating Story Blades is a newly elected president. The last president not only left the country into poor state of economy, health care and engaged in unnecessary wars with two countries. He also left Blades a letter telling him the reason behind all the mess he created. The reason he mentioned was hard to digest.He didn't believe that their planet is under threat of an alien invasion

YO THIS IS SO FREAKING GOOD!

Letter 44 was a breath of fresh air. It is a solid sci-fi opera. I'd call it a space opera, but there are a lot of events on Earth as well.The 44th President has just been elected. As he sits down in the Oval Office he finds, as per tradition, the previous President's letter to him. Inside is a bombshell- the Earth has been dealing with an alien object that has appeared in our solar system. The previous administration had been using foreign wars as a cover to develop new technology under the cov...

Read all my reviews on http://urlphantomhive.booklikes.com When newly elected President Blades entered office, he didn't think life would be easy. He didn't expect to learn about aliens, possibly/probably planning some kind of invasion, and a secret space mission to study the aliens. This was surprisingly good. I was a bit skeptical, because lately I wasn't having to much luck with my comics, but this story really good capture my attention. It's part political intrigue and part space mission, a

Lots of interesting elements in this story, therefore very curious to the rest2nd read:Still like it and very curious which direction this series is gonna take. I hope not a full-out war between aliens and humans because not in the mood for war.

This is the first work of Charles Soule's where I went, "Now I get why Marvel hired this guy." This is fantastic stuff. I can't wait to read the next volume.What if Barack Obama showed up on his first day in the Oval Office and George Bush had left him a note that aliens are real and building something in our solar system? Our story is two-fold. On one side we have the President trying to prepare America for a potential invasion from aliens and on the other a team of astronauts who've been sent

Please allow me to rave about Letter 44!Sometimes comics have an awesome premise- in this case, what if after winning a presidential campaign on the platform that he will undo the previous president's mistakes, President Obama (I mean President Stephen Blades) must continue two unnecessary wars, unchecked military spending and policies that will destroy the American economy. There is nothing he can do, because secretly there are aliens near Jupiter, watching Earth.And there you have me. That is

President Obama vs. the Gigantic Alien Gun[Though the book does not officially feature Barack Obama and George W. Bush, there can be no doubt that two of its main characters are thinly veiled versions of the two, and in this review I will thus for simplicity's sake refer to them as Obama and Bush.]On the eve of his inauguration, Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, receives from his predecessor, George W. Bush, the so-called Letter 44:“Welcome to the job, son… I know you don’t

What if…Aliens are real and are much closer to us than we thought. NASA have discovered what looks like a massive alien mining operation in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter but we don’t know whether the aliens are hostile or friendly - or even whether they’re mining or preparing to invade! A team of nine volunteers made up of scientists and special forces left Earth three years ago on a one-way mission to make first contact. No-one but the highest ranking officials in the US government...

3.5 StarsThis comic has been on my tbr for a while so when Netgalley had it available as part of a re-release I grabbed the chance to read it. The plot revolves around the inauguration and new term of Pres. Blake (44th US pres.) and a group of astronauts who’ve been sent to see what they can find about an alien structure. It pulls heavily from 2008 US politics but puts a spin on it. I really enjoyed this one and am excited to see where it leads.

Maybe this will get better. I was hopeful because it is clearly a commentary on the Bush years from the perspective of the Obama administration, with some new information, that Bush had a secret, that there was this little alien problem they encountered in outer space… I don't (yet) like it much, it feels sort of canned and not particularly well written but sometimes when I keep reading things they get better. We'll see. Other reviewers I admire seem to like it a lot, so I'll keep on...

Decent story with somewhat cartoonist art. 3 stars.

Liked the first comic book collection (6 issues) more than I expected (story not complete yet). Kind of science fiction and politics combined. Brian K. Vaughan's Ex Machina would be a good comparison. Or even Arthur C. Clarke, who is referenced in the book. The art didn't immediately wow me, but it grew on me. Lawyer Charles Soule is becoming a comic book author for me to look for. I also liked his Strange Attractors (my review). You can still read the whole first issue of Letter 44 for free on

Short review: great book. Don't let this linger on your shelf like I did, you'll regret it.The longer this story unfolds, the more tense and dramatic it becomes. I'm finding myself genuinely surprised at this - I've read a couple of other Soule joints and this level of control, of depth of research, wasn't hinted at in his previous works. While interesting stories, the only surprises I felt during Strongman were at his adherence to old school Latin self-sacrificing hero dialogue. Whereas here I

2 stars You know, this comic would probably have got a much better rating for me if it hadn't been for the casual misogyny peppered throughout it. Women are treated like trash in this comic. They're all massively oversexualised, I mean, the two women on the space ship basically end up f*cking every dude on the ship, but not in like an empowered 'I sleep with who I choose' kind of way, kind of in a 'whoops, this dude needs a lay, ASAP, better be me who does it' kind of way...Just, no...And the

Summary: On his first day of his new job, president Stephen Blades finds a letter of his predecessor. In this letter, he learns about an alien construction hidden in space, and about the space mission on its way to discover what the construction is, and why it's there.What I liked:- I've been binging on science-fiction reads lately, and I liked this take on the "intelligent beings in space" theme. More mystery, and less big-headed green guys- President Blades is put in a difficult position - wil...