The Silencer #1 Review

Writer: Dan Abnett / Artist: John Romita, Jr. / DC Comics “Chopper full of rust, but it still bust Bust good as fuck, every bullet struck…” – Lil’ Wayne You know a book is good when you lock the door and put a song on in order to fully digest what you’re reading. Listen, I stopped twice while reading The Silencer to let out a “god Bast damn”. Abnett and Romita, Jr. let us know from jump this is a book about Soccer Mom SUVs and body bags. The premise of the series is simple. Imagine John Wick with a grocery list. We are introduced to Honor Guest (fake alias alert) as a typical mom shopping with her son. Once Honor starts talking about how everyone sees an “ordinary life” as boring or some kinda curse, we know what’s up. Anytime the main character of a series rides hard for mundane day to day things like taxes, coupons, and satellite TV, you know they’re hiding some kind of shady past. That past comes back to collect Honor’s fade in the parking lot in the form of Killbox.

The Myth of The Silencer Killbox is an “associate” of Honor’s that’s trying to bring her back into a clandestine organization called The Underlife. Yeah, she ain’t with that shit in the least. What happens next is poetry in motion as Honor systematically takes apart Killbox. The fight scene is something gloriously vicious to behold and gives us a lot of information about Honor. Honor’s return home brings this issue full circle as a special guest appearance from a certain character informs us of how connecte…