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And I really like the low-key look of that method.

It also feels like Ravielli's process means he's had to construct the ravages of violence and evil on his protagonist's bod as an effect laid over his reference material-the same way it's done in movies or Photoshop. That anonymous cabin in the woods, its wonky-ass window, the strange way the characters pretend to interact with the setting-it all reminds me of cardboard mise-en-scène of a high school play. I especially dig the weird little scene with the girlfriend outside the lab at the top of page two. But I have to admit there's something to the effect it has on today's story, some Lovecraftian madness in the untrued angles and mismatched fabrics that make the story more anxious and subversive. Honestly, slavish photo realism and belabored shading (sometimes I think of it as 'panel hair') are never really my cup of tea. The prisoner's hands are even lit differently than the rest of his arms! Panel one on page three is particularly at odds with itself. I mean, the way the lighting and perspectives never quite align, the way frame parts rarely overlap or interact-unless absolutely necessary-and then don't really ever seem to sync up, all makes this feel like it's cobbled together from unrelated stuff. Yeah, I can't really see this as anything but a collage of photo reference elements. I wonder what he thinks about at night in his coffin.

Then Death explained that Reed could never see himself as he actually was because his eyes were dead. I didn't notice it at first, and wondered how he deteriorated so quickly once he reached Alice.

Somebody was having way too much fun playing chicken with death at this point.Īlso, I love how on the first panel of page 5, we actually see the toll this has physically had on Reed's body. Then, instead of using his newfound powers for good, he goes off on a crime spree. Man this guy's a jerk though! He ditches his girlfriend for months, and kills a bunch of bums he's gotten off the street in the name of science. I don't know why but I love the last panel of page 3 where Reed is gleefully shooting himself in the head with a gun because he cannot die.Īlso, 'Alice, Alice darling, I've come for you!' may not have been the best choice of words when greeting her. I agree with Bill the Butcher, thousands of years didn't really go by, it just felt like it to him-after all, his name was still known in these parts for paying for funerals for the unmourned and unwanted-it couldn't have been that far in the future.

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