“Reflections Pass Over Me”
Creative Staff:
Story: Ram V
Art: Anand Rk
Colors: Mike Spicer
Letterer: Aditya Bidikar
What They Say:
Life after life, Mitch Shelley, the Resurrection Man, struggles with the cycle he’s found himself caught in and his seemingly endless quest to save the universe. Will he be able to cope with his immortality while holding onto his humanity? Meanwhile, Gashadokuro lurks in the shadows, growing hungrier and hungrier.
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Having enjoyed the previous Resurrection Man series that came out, what, over a decade or so ago, I was glad to see a new incarnation rise and what might be done with it. The series has Ram V handling the story and I’ve enjoyed a number of their works over the years as the characters and concepts they work with scratch a certain itch for me in a great way. He’s joined by anand Rk for the artwork, with Jackson “Butch” Juice doing a small peice of artwork within as well, and Rk puts in a really strong work here. The layouts for this are really great in how the story flows and blends so that it stands out well and the artwork across it hits such a great sweet spot as it moves between different periods of time, looks for the main character, and just some of the more unusual concepts that have to be realized within it. Spicer’s color elevates a lot of it, and the whole thing just delivers the goods.
The opening installment was a pretty good way to introduce the character to more people while also highlighting just how weird and large it’s going to go. It took me back to past works easily enough while being curious about what’s next for the character while knowing it’s going to dip into parts of his past in engaging ways. Part of the fun of the character is getting to tell all kinds of stories of very different people. While we get the framing of what was going on in the past with Gashadokuro and now in the present, most of its time is focused on the Mitch who survived World War II in New Guinea and was trying to figure out what’s next for him. The death wasn’t easy nor was coming back from it, especially as the other survivors mostly viewed him as a kind of god now. But he knows how this routine goes and essentially leaves as soon as he can so that we get to where he is no, dying of old age and gaining the long-view ability with time as the cause of his death.
There are interesting aspects to the story being told in this other space with the gears and just how Mitch needs to rethink how he views and understands things on a larger scale. It’s not something that goes anywhere in particular in the grand scheme of things, but it allows him to go back to after he had initially left in New Guinea and to check on the people he left. That has him delivering a letter for the one guy he connected with a bit and in turn results in that person’s granddaughter being someone he’s protecting in 1982. It’s another facet of trying to get him to realize that even though he’s not changing things on the grand scale, he has such impact across time – which can even circle back to him – that he has to look at what his place in time really means through a very different light.
In Summary:
It’s easy enough to say that I have no idea where Resurrection Man intends to go with its larger story and I’m fine with that. Right now, we’re being educated on what Mitch has been going through in the past, and a nod to his future from our perspective, as we see stories ranging from the 1940s to the 2040s and how it changes everything for him. It’s got a really neat feeling to it with the artwork and design, but I’m just enjoying the kind of character stories that you rarely get in comics at this point, since it’s mostly not about capes and cowls and the like. Definitely looking forward to more, but also very aware that this is going to read so much better in collected form.
Grade: B+
Age Rating: 13+
Released By: DC Comics
Release Date: May 7th, 2025
MSRP: $4.99
