Roller Derby Comics SLAM #1 Hits Stores This Week

    SLAM #1

Television Without Pity’s Pamela Ribon (Rick and Morty) and artist Veronica Fish (Archie) dive into the fast-paced, hard-hitting world of roller derby! ‘ Jennifer Chu and Maise Huff (aka Knockout and Ithinka Can on the track) have been best friends since their first day of Fresh Meat Orientation for the Eastside Roller Girls, but when they get drafted for two different teams they’ll have to figure out if the bond between them is stronger than the pull of a team when a win is on the line. ‘ You get slammed on the track and slammed in life, and in both cases, you have to take your hits and get back up again!

    A lot of little, intimate moments and details make the characters in SLAM jump off the page. Writer Pamela Ribon (Moana) does an awesome job of jumping between the past, present, and directly addressing the reader to give context to not only who the characters are, but why they are the way they are. Interjecting at a few points to give character breakdowns feels somewhat heavy-handed, but the information it provides on the leads, Jennifer and Maise, isn’t extremely pertinent, only given to help us understand them better.

       Veronica Fish, who recently worked on the Archie relaunch with Mark Waid, brings a terrific energy to the roller derby scenes. However, similar to Archie, Fish shines on the more human moments. Small moments between friends is the foundation of SLAM #1, and Fish totally owns the emotions in the air. If you put two characters in a room together, you’re going to be able to perfectly understand how they are feeling, based solely on how well Fish depicts body language and facial expressions. It is a skill that not every comic book artist has, but Fish makes it seem like a piece of cake.    

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