Have you seen the movie “The Village”? I was just wondering. This book is better than that movie due to much more convincing line-delivery and a newer, fresher cast. It is also more replete with a winning and understandable history which lacks the gimmicky nature of the most recent film from a director who was most recently one of my favorites.

Majestic is looking to be an awesome series. Though it is only issue three, you can’t help but to love and want more and more of these books. Writers Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning know exactly how to tell an interstellar story; and what’s more, they are able to take a complicated concept and relate it through excellent and simple dialogue, brief to-the-point history lessons, and the exceptional artwork of Neil Googe. I only wish the same were so for Majestros’ doppelganger from our universe, whose current storyline is bewilderingly difficult to grasp despite the talents of Brian Azzarello and Jim Lee.

The fight scene in this book, spotted with humor and misunderstanding, was extremely entertaining. It was also an excellent tool for the lead into the world of the ship's interior. Here we see a society developed from the ancestors of those creatures who escaped the ships decaying stasis-chambers. These people then gathered in an area designed to fool them into believing they were on a planet with suns and moons, etc.

Think “The Matrix” and “The Time Machine” and “The Village” meets “The Truman Show” minus the proverbial Ed Harris.

In other words, there is a created reality with an outside visitor who finds the leaders of the society to be the creators of the peoples’ greatest fears, while the creators of the ship and the false reality (the Ed Harris, if you will) are dead or gone, leaving the world to go on as the ship slowly decays. So, really, it is not necessarily a novel idea that we’re seeing played out, but it is an exciting spin on a popular theme. And extremely simple and easy to grasp.

To Googe I owe an apology for mocking the art of the first issue. Never has someone’s art grown on me like yours. It is excellent. And to Abnett and Lanning I also should say that, indeed, this little book with potential has become one of the most fun books to read.

The cover is also excellent, especially in light of the many less than grand, or else false-advertising covers of the day. This is good stuff, and I recommend this book to everyone.

-Peblee