A’ight, so let’s give ya’ll a synopsis 8th grade book report style:Roche Limit is a book about space. People fly far away to a different galaxy. A billionaire pays for this. He builds a death-star type colony next to a black hole.Ugh, this is dreck. Quick aside, why do schools make writing book reports (or writing in general) a painfully horrific exercise in futility? Seriously, writing is fun, but thinking back on my middle and high school years and the writing exercises inflicted upon our poor...

You could tell the author had put a lot of thought into the worldbuilding of this one, because the whole thing is one giant exposition-dump. There are literally pages of tiny print prose scattered throughout the volume explaining various things about the colony, its founders, the drug made there, and the anomaly it was built next to. Even outside of those sections, I feel like there is a lot of heavy-handed narration and characters explaining things to each other. Not that the information wasn't...

I don't know why this comic has as low a rating as it does.

One part detective story, one part sci-fi space adventure, one part uncanny, vaguely Lovecraftian horror.Needless to say, it's an interesting concept for a book, and solid execution in the storytelling.This first trade paperback has its own tight arc. It's a little similar to a detective story - A woman is looking for her lost sister on a space station where things are... odd. There's a rift, dark energy, signs and portents. You learn about the world as you go, and the world is interesting.It wa...

3.5 starsGreat artwork - very detailed and gave a gritty atmosphere. Although sometimes hard to differentiate some of the faces ('hardened white men' characters can look really similar, okay).The writing was strong and the plot was well developed (complex without being difficult to comprehend... unless you start reading it when you're extra tired, which was the case for me...). I really liked the mystery element and think there's a lot of room to grow this world/premise in the sequel. Also the i...

strong concept, but didn't quite pull it off... I'm still going to give the next volume a chance because I think it has some potential

Image sure does have a lot of these types of sci-fi books, but this one stands out. Roche Limit was built as a waypoint for further space exploration that never happened. It orbits a space anomaly that some people suggest is one end of a wormhole. A woman shows up on the colony looking for her sister who has gone missing. Things spiral out of control from there. Fans of shows like The Expanse will enjoy this.Vic Malhotra provides solid art, reminiscent of Michael Lark or Charles Adlard.

A scifi noir where the sci is questionable, the fi is uninspired, and the noir just plain falls flat. I found very little to like about this except the concept's potential that I felt could have been executed so much better. Apparently it's a trilogy, but I have no desire to continue.

The world is interesting, but everyone spouts their very similar philosophy to each other and empty space constantly. No one has hope. No one believes in a higher being. Souls exist, but ah who cares? The main duo, Alex and Sonya, seemed like the most interesting since they were trying to find Sonya's sister Bekkah. The founder of the colony spouting about how life doesn't matter before his suicide didn't add anything to the book. Everyone seems to be fine with the world going to shit, yet they

At first I had this down as yet another slice of SF noir; just like Southern Cross , it follows an investigator tracking her sister, who went missing on a run-down space colony, while something vaguely Lovecraftian festers in the background. Unlike that series, it doesn't have quite such pretty art (more a sub-Criminal feel). The writing, too, is littered with niggling errors, from grammatical mistakes to style glitches in the non-fiction inserts. There are even problems with the physics (bot...

Bullet Review:What small, minuscule text! I mean, I wish I had a magnifying glass to read it - if I could muster up the interest.Woman...blah blah...looking for sister...blah blah...guy with secrets...blah blah...You've read this story before. It's the same "Girl's looking for X, Y helps her, bad things happen, the world is in crisis."Excuse me, I have a nap to get back to.

Ill give it credit for trying something kinda new. The scifi-noir-zombie angle isn't a road oft traveled but probably for a reason. Just something missing.

This one felt a bit fanboyish, I'd say. I could sense the creators' passion for the material, but the story's sci-fi-noir angle is far from original, the characters barely come to life, and the dialogue is too wordy considering how little it contributes to plot and characterization. It's a shame, because the world building is quite complex and ambitious - it just lacks spark, feels labored: I need more reason to care.

Roche Limit was another Image Comics graphic novel I picked up while attending Wondercon. I was looking for space horror oriented stories and this book looked promising, but as I got into reading it, it fell into the sci-fi/noir realm of storytelling. It had some unique visual layouts; ultimately, I disappointed by the verbose narrative that was too slow, disjointed subplots, and an art style that did not appeal to my tastes. In addition, I felt the characters lacked the depth required for the s...

Good concept, poor execution. Way too much lecturing and telling and talking. Poor usage of the comic book medium.

Roche Limit (Volume 1): Anomalous is an excellent science fiction comic book and the first of a projected three volumes, though this first volume really does stand alone as a fully completed storyline: There is no cliffhanger, though future volumes will apparently take us back to the world of Roche Limit. The second volume is already available in trade, and the first issue of the third story arc has already been published. The story takes place in the future in a small colony on a small planet.

Not bad, but not great either. It had its moments, & i like the idea that each volume in this series is kind of a stand alone story about Roche Limit so I'm probably gonna read Vol. 2 at least.

An incredible story about ambition and failure, sprinkled with a bit of hopelessness. There is some really good dialogue in here, some of which may be quotable for the readers who live very depressing lives (show of hands, please). The story is well paced and features a lot of insight into the milieu of Roche Limit.The artwork seemed a little off after the first issue. The characters seem very stiff and some of the mechinical designs are flat and boring. I would have liked some more expression a...

It's rare that I don't finish a book, but I just couldn't keep interested enough to bother with Roche Limit. The design work is very attractive and the art is solid, but noir sci-fi's been done so many times in comics that doing it again requires a unique angle. Instead, we get bland characters, stilted dialogue, hoary old noir cliches and uninteresting infodumps leaving the overused juxtaposition to carry all the weight on its own. Beautiful visuals wasted on an empty, faceless story which come...

This is the biggest, most ambitious comic book I've read in a long time. It feels, to me, to be an ambitious attempt to do far more than tell a good story, self-consciously striving for huge questions with a mix of cynicism and romanticism, belief in humanity and reflection of its worst qualities that often train wrecks in the hands of weak creators. Moreci and Charles are not weak creators. I'm not entirely certain where they're headed, but this is the kind of reach-past-what-we-know writing th...