Cosmic Detective Review

Cosmic Detective Review

Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and David Rubín. Separately, amazing on their own. Together? Don’t get me started. Cosmic Detective is another banger from Image Comics that I cannot highly recommend enough. Murder, the paranormal, family (and not like Fast and the Furious family, like a legit family though there is a sweet car involved), some spattered full frontal nudity, and a rough and ready detective on the case. 

Here is the description of Cosmic Detective:

COSMIC DETECTIVE, an epic science fiction mystery that asks: When a God is murdered, who solves the crime?

Enter our detective. The murder of a god threatens to tear apart the very fabric of our reality, and only he stands in the way of utter destruction. Will the mystery he uncovers be worse than the disaster he’s trying to avert? And will his mind crack under the revelations he’s about to uncover before he can do anything about it?

The story by Lemire and Kindt has more twists and turns than you can keep track of but the story never feels like you’re without a compass. The art is unique, clunky in some parts but beautiful in others. The use of dingy colors and bright corporal tones gives you a wonderful divide between life and the beyond. 

In the 194 pages, you ride shotgun but never feel like a side character. You’re in the action, you’re in the fray, you’re in the thick of it all and while 194 pages seems like a lot I never felt myself stopping before the next page. I wanted to see where the story would go, I wanted to see where I was going. Our detective isn’t Constantine, but if you’re looking for a cosmic adventure based more on reality than on the divine I cannot recommend this enough.