Comics Review: "NEMESIS FOREVER #1" Offers a Cap for the Entire World's Ass

NEMESIS FOREVER #1 (OF 5)

DARK HORSE COMICS

STORY: Mark Millar

ART: Mateo Scalera

COLORS: Giovanna Niro with Laura Ciondolini

LETTERS: Clem Robins

EDITOR: Sarah Unwin

COVER: Matteo Scalera with Giovanna Niro

VARIANT COVER ARTISTS: Jae Lee with June Chung

32pp, Color, $4.99 U.S. (August 2025)

Age range: 18+

Nemesis created by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven

Nemesis Forever is a new five-issue comic book miniseries from writer Mark Millar and publisher Dark Horse Comics.  It is a sequel to the miniseries, Nemesis Reloaded (2023) and Nemesis Rogues' Gallery (2024).  Besides Millar, the rest of the creative team is comprised of Matteo Scalera (artist); Giovanna Niro (colors); and Clem Robins (letters).

Nemesis Forever #1 opens in an apartment building on the Lower East Side of New York City.  Nemesis, the world's greatest assassin, is a billionaire, and he is tired of terrorizing the hapless forces of law and order.  His new plan is to wreak havoc on his enemies and seize control of the world itself, enslaving humanity with super-technology.

Now, a CIA undercover agent, Kitty Tepper, may be the only hope in leading the cause to stop Nemesis' mission hammer the world into submission.  But the world's greatest assassin did not become the world's greatest assassin by not knowing real from fake...

THE LOWDOWN:  This is the second time that I have been on any kind of list that provides PDF copies of titles published by Dark Horse Comics.  Nemesis Forever #1 is the latest PDF that I have received.

I would not be surprised to learn that Nemesis is among Mark Millar's favorite creations, if not the favorite.  It is obvious in the absolute glee with which Millar fashions a suite of unrelenting cruelty on the part of his anti-hero slash villain.  In a way, Nemesis Forever recalls the opening of Millar and Steve McNiven's original Nemesis (2010) miniseries.

The always excellent Matteo Scalera creates the perfect graphical storytelling for the first issue.  He brings Millar's script to life as a symphony of inhuman cruelty, and the art is just plain beautiful, also.  Scalera's hypnotic art makes you feel the meanness and evil, and I'm not sure Millar's story would be as effective without Scalera's brilliance.

The coloring by Giovanna Niro heightens the sense of evil and immorality.  Niro's colors truly convey the absolute sinister and depraved nature of Nemesis himself.  As always, Clem Robins' elevates this comic book with a raging story of imagined sound and vision.

I didn't expect Nemesis Forever to be so good from the opening gun.  This first issue draws first and last blood.

I READS YOU RECOMMENDS:  Fans of Mark Millar's comic books of his Nemesis series will desire Nemesis Forever.

A+

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"

A Kindle edition of NEMESIS FOREVER #1 is available at Amazon.

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