When I first heard about Orchid (blurb and facts are down below), the brain child of Rage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello, I had low expectations. Admittedly, I thought he was already skilled in one area, music, what we’re the chances he would be skilled in another completely unrelated one, comics.

I’d read interviews and press releases that made me think Orchid would be a heavy-handed political and social diatribe vilifying politicians and the rich and babying the rest of us barely held together with pictures– pretty much a Chick Tract for social reveloution.

When I finally got my hands and eyes on Orchid Volume 1¹ I found myself wrapped up in a fast paced action-adventure staring the quirky and blindly optimistic nerd, Simon, and the surly whore, Orchid, with nothing and everything to lose.

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When I first heard aboutOrchid (blurb and facts are down below), the brain child ofRage Against The Machine‘s Tom Morello, I had low expectations. Admittedly, I thought he was already skilled in one area, music, what we’re the chances he would be skilled in another completely unrelated one, comics.

I’d read interviews and press releases that made me thinkOrchid would be a heavy-handed political and social diatribe vilifying politicians and the rich and babying the rest of us barely held together with pictures– pretty much aChick Tractfor social reveloution.

When I finally got my hands and eyes on Orchid Volume 1¹ I found myself wrapped up in a fast paced action-adventure staring the quirky and blindly optimistic nerd, Simon, and the surly whore, Orchid, with nothing and everything to lose.

READ ON.

Unlike most of the post-apocalyptic stories we see in entertainment, there was an unsettling realism to Contagion. The fear that was so easily fueled and exploited just made sense. There are enough people in the world with enough mistrust to easily create chaos unrelated to the  direct source of danger.