There’s a lot to cover on Wednesdays. We should know, as collectively, we read an insane amount of comics. Even with a large review staff, it’s hard to get to everything. With that in mind, we’re back with Wrapping Wednesday, where we look at some of the books we missed in what was another great week of comics.
Let’s get this party started.

Underheist #1
Written by Maria and David Lapham
Illustrated and Lettered by David Lapham
Colored by Hilary Jenkins
Reviewed by Gregory Ellner
Writing a heist story can be tricky, especially from the perspective of the criminals. It takes time to make them sympathetic or unsympathetic, to go into their reasons and who they are. Usually, it can also demand that the world at large get at least a bit of explanation. Unfortunately, with “Underheist” #1, Maria and David Lapham provide… none of the above. The characters of “Underheist” #1 feel barely fleshed out at all, even with what appears to be far too much dialogue to say next to nothing. What there is there is enough to show they are criminals who want money, but not enough for us to care about them getting said money. Instead, it just feels like a bunch of awful people talking and hurting each other, leading readers to just… not care about anything that is happening, be it for good or ill.
David Lapham’s illustrations are okay, serviceable to the story, but nothing to really write home about. The most interesting thing shown is probably the two shots in one page that gradually reveal someone sitting in a wheelchair to show a potential sympathetic trait (which is later done away with in some dialogue). Beyond that and some interesting designs of scars or brands (the distinction is not inherently made, nor their actual purpose), there isn’t enough variety to really make readers pay much attention, even with adequate attention to facial expressions of anger or fear.
Similarly, Hilary Jenkins does a decent job of the coloring on this book. The cool colors of the night and warm of the day are enough to show when each takes place, and the different color scheme of a flashback is enough to show more distress as well as difference from the norm, but nothing really sticks out otherwise.
Final Verdict: 5.0– “Underheist” #1 is… okay. It is not intriguing enough to encourage reading it, nor is it inadequately composed enough to discourage the same. In a sense, this lack of much to speak about may be worse than it being deliberately bad or good, as it seems just forgettable altogether.