Deep State #1. It Came from Russia with Love

Deep State #1 review

Man, I’m still chuckling at my title I gave this Deep State #1 review, “It Came from Russia with Love”, brilliant. So why the James Bond pun? How about nothing about James Bond is related to Deep State, but the horror title moniker “It Came From” is where we’ll rest most of the emphasis.

Conspiracy theories are real, while some hold more water than others, let’s all just agree that some of them aren’t too far fetched. So while X-Files has closed up shop and Men in Black are more interested in time travel than aliens, those shady russkies from back in 1964 may have just damned us all to an alien infested hell unlike anything we’ve ever seen…or been reported.

You can’t help but compare Deep State #1 to the X-Files. You have a guy who has no work title and officially doesn’t work for any government who tracks down and asks for assistance from a super smart female tech-head. If you put them part of the FBI and make the female lead a doctor you literally have the X-Files, but I digress because Justin Jordan and this Deep State book would have made one hell of an X-Files episode.

I wanted to comment on how Deep State #1 could be dubbed cliche in certain areas, but I just like the fact that it plays out like a classic sci-fi film. Jordan’s script with Ariela Kristantina’s art style just screams “thrilling screen play”. Most of you who’ve read many of my reviews before know I love when pages flow well and pop from the pages, like something begging to becoming life in film. Deep State #1 does just that, albeit depending heavily on sci-fi/horror stories before it, it’s still very entertaining nonetheless.