When a comic doesn’t just have good art but celebrates the power of good art, readers ought to take notice.
SAI: Dimensional Rivals isn’t some throwaway comic built around the SEO of its name designed to pull normies off their PS5s for a few minutes (though it may also be that). It’s a showcase; a vehicle through which Peach Momoko can gather some of her talented colleagues from across the industry and watch them try to one-up each other in their respective inimitable styles.
For example, I didn’t know I needed to see Esad Ribic draw Psylocke and the Silver Surfer. Ribic doing interiors is an event – think Secret Wars (2015), Eternals and Aliens vs. Avengers – so the fact that we’re blessed with a few more pages of it is a true gift.
What we’re witnessing is iron sharpening iron. Marvel doesn’t always give its artists their fair shake – the No. 3 comics publisher started as a direct result of that – but Momoko is using the capital she’s built as an artist who moves units to help put her peers front and center, which is reason enough to support this series.
Check out our exclusive preview of SAI: Dimensional Rivals #2, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
SAI: Dimensional Rivals #2
Storytellers: Peach Momoko, Esad Ribic, Natacha Bustos
INTO THE DEPTHS! PEACH MOMOKO continues the epic creator-driven masterpiece of SAI traversing new worlds in search of the magical stones! MARVEL superstars ESAD RIBIC & NATACHA BUSTOS bring their own unique flavors to the world of SAI! You won’t want to miss the masterful art of comics envisioned by some of the industry’s most skilled creators!
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