Review: Venus Rises - “Ikarus - Part 1″
By Richard Leis, Jr. on September 2nd, 2008
Credit: Hermit of the Mountain, LLC - Venus Rises promotional wallpaper: “Mars Warship Wallpaper“
[REVIEW] [SPOILERS] — A new surge in independently-produced online content is almost upon us even as existing media giants like NBC Universal begin to dabble in higher production value content intended for the web. Venus Rises, created by writer/director and Executive Producer J. G. Birdsall is especially noteworthy because this is not fan fiction. Based on an original idea, Venus Rises will be an ongoing series available online and on Illusion, a video-on-demand science fiction cable network. In development since the idea was conceived in 2002, a prequel to Venus Rises has finally been released, leading up to the series’ first episode.