R.R.H. aka Red Riding Hood comes blazing to life in the
all-new comic book from 1First Comics, written by Orlando Harding. Sydney Woodman, waking up on her
seventeenth birthday, is soon to have her world turned upside down and things
will never be the same.
Sydney upon awaking is surprised, by nothing. Wow, her
parents are not making a big deal about her seventh birthday, oh well just
another typical birthday…until she leaves for school and finds she is now the
proud owner of the bug she has been wanting.
Her parents surprise her with the new car and Sydney realizes it is not just another typical birthday as she happily drives to school, but little does
she know this is not the end of birthday surprises for Sydney, she is about to
find out who she truly is.
Sydney returns after school and a day of celebrating her
seventh with friends. Across the street from her home, as Sydney is exiting her
car she has feeling that someone is watching her and then she hears him “Blood
Moon Hoods Doom.” Freaked out Sydney rushes into her house and awakens her
mother, who has been sleeping on the sofa. This is where her parents explain to
her that she is a descendant of Red Riding Hood. She is given a protective
hood, a katana and a special gun. In a great bit, her mother explains to her
that this is what they had her train as a hunter and as an expert shooter for
her whole life. She remarks, “I thought we were just rednecks!” I absolutely
love that line!
Yes, there are such things as big bad wolves…werewolves to
be exact, and they are looking for a little ancestral payback to Red’s
bloodline for centuries of annihilation. As she learns more about her heritage
and the legacy that she is destined to inherit, a hidden set of powers are
awakened in her and prove to be a skill set she will need to survive the
horrors that sinister forces have in store for her. She is a slayer with a
sword and she is not afraid to use it.
R.R.H. #1 is a great read; Harding has created an intriguing
world for Sydney and the destroyers. I especially liked the little bit about how
the big bad wolves really love to eat cats, so the Woodman’s keep buying cats
to work sort of as decoys/canary in a coalmine. It is morbid but pragmatic and
I love it.
You can find R.R.H. #1 at White Dragon Comics, the best comic
book shop on the internet for comic book buyers!
- Barbie66
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