Grimlock ♥ Ultra Magnus

Top Cow gave one of its top artists license to play in the Top Cow universe.   He was allowed to go alternate on its ass.  

And he did.   In a really good way.   Yes, teen iterations of the Darkness and the Witchblade, although this is a new Witchblade bearer.   She's awkward, she doesn't consider herself gorgeous (although I hate the focus on looks, and I have the awful, sinking suspicion that she'll do the thing where she turns gorgeous suddenly), and she's into UFOs.   She's quirky, and honest about her own faults, and while teen versions of characters can go wrong, I think this will go right, mostly because it's not teen Sara.   It's someone new, so the author/artist has free reign with her, and he used that to create a full character here. 

There's a new Estacado as the bearer of the Darkness and while you don't see as much of him as Mary, the bearer of The Witchblade, I think I could like him very much.   All in all, my favorite graphic novel today.   Worth the two dollars on Comixology.   Had I known how awesome this was, I would have been willing to pay more in fact. 

I'm eagerly waiting for issue number two!

ETA: my bad.  I jumped around with the family names, so revised review.