In Review: Starfinder: Angels Of The Drift #1

Synopsis: Starfinder: Angels Of The Drift, five down-on-their-luck mercenaries sign on to help a robotic avatar of the hyperspace dimension bring starship technology to a previously uncontacted planet. But with sinister forces bent on exploiting the new world, it’ll take all the heroes’ guns, wits, and magic to make it off their space station alive… 

The Story

Set inside the Tabletop RPG Universe of the Starfinder Roleplaying Game. This story focuses on Captain Navasi and her crew of mercenaries who get approached by Rute’bahja a Spectre and a Native of the Drift. He is on a mission to inform a previously uncontacted world about faster-than-light travel. The problem is. Navasi is not the first person that Rute’bahja has approached about this mission, which fast becomes a problem for Navasi and her crew as they battle to get off the space station in order to follow through on their mission.

The story includes a colorful group of characters and has a fun blend of futuristic technology with magic. One of Navasi’s crew mates is an elf that can see the future but is unfortunately never around when Navasi has a bet at the races.

The Artwork

 Edu Menna does a great job of setting up the world of Starfinder. Much of this first issue is set in a busy bar where we meet Navasi and her crew. The character drawings are brilliant. Navasi is a humanoid female and her companions are all different and include: Obozaya a big lizard who is the team’s muscle, Kescodai, a bug-like being who is the ships medic, Ceravel who is an elf and precog and works as the ship Xenobotanist. And Quig, a rodent life being who works as the ship’s engineer. All of these characters are really well drawn and have their own unique looks. 

The art throughout this book works really well. So well that it almost felt like I was reading an expensive animated movie.

Overall

Having absolutely no knowledge of the Starfinder RPG Game. I can’t wait to see where this story goes and learn more about these characters.

This first issue is very much set up. But I am hoping that it is set up for a regular comic book adaptation of the game’s universe. So hopefully this is a success for the folks at Dynamite.