VSS: Nemesis Rising #1
	Writers: Terrance Griep & Darren G. Davis Penciller: Nadir Balan Inkers: Sven Dyson, Terry Staats, Mostafa Moussa Colorist: Kenneth Choi Letterer: Patrick Foster & Payton Gauldin Cover by: Nadir Balan Published by: Bluewater Comics 'VSS: Nemesis Rising' Created by Darren G. Davis
	Reviewed by: Bruce Logan

Danger Girl Lite, Brit-Edition. As easy a way I have of describing not only this new series but also the characters appearing in it. A roughly five member team, consisting of four beauties and one dick, and out of the four beauties one is the new outsider…stop me if you’ve heard this before. I for one have, in the aforementioned Danger Girl series from Wildstorm Productions.

Set across the pond (that’s the Atlantic Ocean for the uninitiated), in the UofK i.e. Great Britain, this first issue of this series introduces us to the characters, both good and bad. However, even after two reads I couldn’t care less about any one of them and don’t even remember their names, except for that of the big-bad, Lord Mann. The action scenes are tacky and although executed acceptably come across as rather forced. That goes double for the overly teenage-y behavior from the four main female protagonists and twice that (i.e. quadrupled) for the unfunny attempts at humor. Forget them being secret agents, these bunch of giggle-bags couldn’t save a damned cat from a tree, not even if their lives depended on it.

The artwork is the best thing about VSS: Nemesis Rising #1, which isn’t saying a lot. Nevertheless, even though on quite a few occasions things tended to get out of hand, both with the pencils and the colors, on the whole the artwork here is clearly deserving of a much better story.

Conclusion: As much as I want to like and give a positive mark to the Indies (after all, I personally don’t have the balls to make such a venture), I can’t help but give VSS: Nemesis Rising #1 a resounding thumbs down.

RATING: 1.5/5