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Details

• Writer/artist: Daniel Warren Johnson (DWJ)
• Colorist: Mike Spicer
• Letterer: Rus Wooton
• Publisher: Image Comics
• No. Of issues: 7
• Year of publishing: 2022

Premise

Lona Steelrose wants to be a pro wrestler, but she’s living under the shadow of her mother. Everything changes when a wrestling-obsessed necromancer asks her to join the grandest pro wrestling tournament of all time, which is also the most dangerous!

So, let me start by saying I have nothing with wrestling. I have never watched a match, let alone a tournament. But if it is made by the King of comics, DWJ (Daniel Warren Johnson), I had no other choice but to read it, and while I have nothing with it, this comic book run made me care for it! And if that is something you can do, you must have Godly powers or something. So please, enjoy my review and have a pleasant stay!

The narrative

DWJ gave again his trademark storytelling here: an action-packed, fast paced comic with a powerful emotional shell underneath. There are many twists and turns you don’t see coming and it makes the comic unpredictable, which I highly appreciate.

Lona is a typical ISFP (The Adventurer). She is the heart of the story and isn’t driven by desire for fame and glory, but driven by her introverted feeling (Fi). She struggles to express her grief through words, instead choosing the physical, sensory medium that is wrestling (her Extraverted Sensing; Se). She is impulsive and lives in the moment, reacting to the physical demands of the ring with natural grace, but her ultimate goal is a deeply emotional, singular vision of reunion.

Cobrasun, on the other hand, resembles more an ISTP (the virtuoso) – he is the pragmatic foil to Lona’s idealism. A master of the mechanics of wrestling, he operates with introverted thinking (Ti) constantly calculating risks and maintaining a detached, cool exterior. Moreover, his Extraverted Sensing (Se) is highly developed; he is a technician who excels in the heat of combat.

And lastly, Yua Steelrose is an ENFJ (The protagonist). She was the glue to the Steelrose family and the wrestling community. Her primarily mode was connection through Extraverted Feeling (Fe) – she wasn’t just wrestling for herself but for her family and fans as well. And she is the reason her daughter Lona went to the Deathlyfe match.

Lastly, the plot was tight, the ending just right though a bit sudden, and the pacing was fast, but not too fast – like many Daniel Warren Johnson comic books.

The art

The art is typical DWJ: the exaggerated linework and poses to convey speed and power, the onomatopoeia – sounds effects as physical objects within the scene, and the mechanical preciseness of his drawings – every minute detail is drawn. I also enjoy that sometimes Lona and Cobrasun where drawn pop-art-style. Lastly,  here are some pictures of his style and the coloring by Mike Spicer:

Final verdict

Do a Powerbomb! is once again DWJ on his best! But I believe he almost is every time, to be honest. It’s not my favorite work of his, those honors probably go to Extremity (which I still find suprising, because I thought beforehand that I would enjoy his Murder Falcon and Transformers more.) But without further a do, I give DAP (abbreviation) a 4.5/5 stars ⭐️ , which proves once again that Daniel Warren Johnson is one of the leaders in the field in this current age of comics.

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Thanks for reading and see you in the next one!

Yours,

Rain