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by Arcee on 07.21.10

Top Cow comic fans, the event that has been 15 years in the making is about to release next week, July 28th, and it looks to be a good one. After more than a year of preparations and hinting in many of the company’s series, the 13 part Artifacts storyline is set to begin. Drawing together the Witchblade, the Darkness, the Angelus, and ten other powerful artifacts from the Top Cow universe, the characters that survive will never be the same after this storyline is all said and done.

Issue number one kicks off with Det. Sara Pezzini, the current Witchblade bearer, and her NYPD partner, Det. Gleason, discovering the brutal slaying of priest around New York City is being caused be some sort of demon. The demon is searching for someone but never discloses who. At the same time, fallen priest Tom Judge has returned to Earth and is mysteriously drawn to the Curator, a man who knows more about the 13 artifacts than he lets on. Meanwhile, Sara’s young daughter is at the center of something big, but what that means for the child of the Darkness and Witchblade still remains unclear.

With excellent writing by Ron Marz, and art chores handled by Michael Broussard, Rick Basaldua, Sal Regla, and Sonny Gho, Artifacts brings together some of the best talent Top Cow has to offer to bring their fans an exciting and entertaining ride. Issue one delivers just enough intrigue to make you need to pick up the second part of the event but delivers the right amount of action and answers that make reading this book fulfilling. And if you doubt just how exciting this storyline can be, let me just say that the casualties have all ready started as one character doesn’t make it out of issue one alive.

I will personally admit that I have been waiting for this storyline for the better part of a year now and I am glad that the first issue didn’t disappoint. Top Cow fans, this one is a must have. Comic fans in general, if you have never read a Top Cow boo, pick this up and you will be a fan in an instant. In any case, I give this issue my highest recommendation.