Okay. Picture it. You come to with a detonator in your paw, a bomb already ticking, and no memory of arming it. That is the first thing Kitt Frost #1 does to you, and it does not let go.

Kitt is a time slipping rabbit hero who "slips" into moments across his own timeline, and this one drops him aboard an enemy vessel in the middle of a job he never agreed to. The Slip completes, the alarm screams, and a shipful of angry Vaar want his head. Cue one of the best sustained chase sequences I have read in an all ages book this year.

What works

The cartooning. Every panel is confident black and white with real weight to the blacks, and it owes a clear debt to the great retro robot era of comics without ever feeling like a copy. There is a two page stretch where Kitt blows out a viewport and rides the decompression into open space that is pure kinetic joy, and the full page of the enemy ship going up is a proper crowd pleaser.

And the timing! This book is funny when it wants to be. "Bombs? Why am I planting bombs?" is a perfect panic beat, and Kitt's running commentary keeps a life or death chase light on its feet.

But here is the part that got me. Under the funny animal surface is a genuinely sharp story about a false flag. Kitt does not just escape. He starts asking who pointed him at that ship, and the answer, delivered through a slick little archive flowchart, is that he was the trigger for a manufactured war. That is ambition, and it lands.

What does not

A few nicks, nothing fatal. The opening "Who is Kitt Frost?" primer front loads a lot of concept before you have met the guy. The enemy name wobbles between two spellings. And there are a couple of small dialogue typos that a quick pass would catch. None of it dents the ride, but a polish lap would take this from very good to sharp as a tack.

Who it is for

Anyone who grew up on Saturday morning sci fi, anyone handing a comic to a kid who likes rockets and rabbits, and anyone who thinks all ages cannot also mean smart. It is issue one, so it ends on a hook, but it earns the "to be continued."

The verdict is CRISP. Kitt Frost #1 is alive, it is drawn with real chops, and it smuggles a real idea into a rip roaring chase. Give me issue two.

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Kitt Frost #1 - Issue 1

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