Scout has crashed on Earth, a returning human from the great migration to other planets that had taken place long before. She is taking a careful scientific approach to the exploration and has survived an encounter with the local humans. She does suffer an injury and has an extended encounter with one of the locals and the deep miscommunication between the two is wonderfully set up as the reader get to be the only one with a complete understanding of what is going on.
Miles Greb has sidestepped a problem by making the encounter peaceful and rather baffling for both parties rather than a violent confrontation. This allows the encounter to be more extended and gives a chance for the context of the story to emerge naturally. Scout is entirely in scientific explorer mode and the local human is immersed in his mystical understanding of life and living. There is a genuine attempt to communicate, the starting point for each is just to far apart for it be be successful. It is not wasted either.
Isaac La Russa is lovely, the rough lines are inviting and friendly, the cast are engaging and move comfortably in their context. The body language and expressions are expressive and the conversation is engaging and given a nice slightly humour tilt by the pacing and the layout.
The colours by Adrian Geller are muted and give depth to the details of the art, they bring out the energy of the cast and the natural context of the planet.
The lettering and sound effects are great, the lettering is easy and natural to read, pacing the conversation very well, the sound effects give a depth to the action which is nice.
An intriguing problem is being established and a carefully set up hint of, perhaps, more dangerous forces is given at the end. After The Gold Rush is striking a very agreeable pace and an engaging cast. I am very happy to be along for the ride.
