![]() I like the team so I lean to liking it, but it could go south quickly, or come together beautifully. The story? No idea what is happening, really, it's all fragments and innuendo so far, those transmissions, the gun, the 911 call, but it's a mystery, first of three volumes, so take a breath, but the three women we expect will connect in ways I hope will be interesting. I'm not a huge fan of the cursive lettering, which I had trouble making out in places, but I get the purpose: Intimacy, kind of a journal feel, we are there. Matt Hollingsworth's oddly off-kilter coloring contributes to the unease, as do the sketchy, cramped stylings of Elsa Charretier, with a bit of Darwyn Cooke sixties retro feel to the art. Random violence seems to happen everywhere, unsettling us as it will. Very "spare," and short first (of three) volumes focused on three separate stories of women in a nameless urban landscape: Dee, an addict, approached by a guy to do some job involving being a go-between involving electronic transmissions, in exchange for a lot of money a woman coming home to her apartment who finds a gun and Kowalski, an overworked night-shift 911 dispatcher at a busy police precinct. Very "spare," and short first (of three) volumes focused on three separate stories of women in a nameless urban landscape: Dee, an addict, approached by a guy to do some job involving being a go-between involving electronic transmissions, in exchange for a lot of money a woman coming home to her apartment who finds a gun a A very elliptical and noirish comics turn for the usually cleverly humorous Matt Fraction, trying his best to channel Frank Miller, with a dash of pomo Matt Kindt thrown in. A very elliptical and noirish comics turn for the usually cleverly humorous Matt Fraction, trying his best to channel Frank Miller, with a dash of pomo Matt Kindt thrown in.
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