Abattoir #1 & Hotwire: Deep Cut #2 - Comic Review
Illusions of identity continue to placate the ideas presented in two of the latest releases by Radical using the structures of both supernatural old school and neo-modern advances to balance tales of morality and the id.
Abattoir (#1 of 6) approaches the structure of the macabre with a backhanded morality that seems to placate a sense of the unconscious. The prologue of the comic precludes itself viciously with a bloodbath during a children's birthday party. The lingering art of a clown almost blowing smoke like a wolf predestines a sense of metaphor in the narrative which turns to follow a family man working as a realtor trying to make ends meet. Placed in charge of flipping the house where the murders occurred, he comes upon a decrepit old man who offers to buy the property off him. After waiting to clear it with his supervisor, he finds the same man waiting for him at his house speaking to his family with a sense of knowing. Like implementations of "Pet Semetary" or "Phantasm" the structure of this plot plays to a certain haunted house metaphor but the luridness and attention of the faces gives this outlay a bit more reality.
Hotwire: Deep Cut (#2 of 3) functions more within a "Blade Runner" connotation but uses the essence of the undead with an almost "Ghost In The Shell" quality. Hotwire herself is a detective who searches out the souls in repose much to the detriment of her own team. For someone whose emotions rule her professional life, she tries to a fault to contain their possibilities, The imagery, specifically as time slows after a girl in an accident wanders into a field, shows a separation of the ego hiding on a ethereal plane that the robots who are trying to satiate her cannot find. The aspect of what is not being said is actually very intense and manipulates what the reader is seeing through Hotwire's eyes. The journey is important here but not as much as the state of being of the characters exist in which provides reflection of a more novel-based interior life which is hard to translate into the comic universe. "Deep Cut" seems to have found the balance which will make it an interesting progression to witness.
Abattoir (#1 of 6) approaches the structure of the macabre with a backhanded morality that seems to placate a sense of the unconscious. The prologue of the comic precludes itself viciously with a bloodbath during a children's birthday party. The lingering art of a clown almost blowing smoke like a wolf predestines a sense of metaphor in the narrative which turns to follow a family man working as a realtor trying to make ends meet. Placed in charge of flipping the house where the murders occurred, he comes upon a decrepit old man who offers to buy the property off him. After waiting to clear it with his supervisor, he finds the same man waiting for him at his house speaking to his family with a sense of knowing. Like implementations of "Pet Semetary" or "Phantasm" the structure of this plot plays to a certain haunted house metaphor but the luridness and attention of the faces gives this outlay a bit more reality.Hotwire: Deep Cut (#2 of 3) functions more within a "Blade Runner" connotation but uses the essence of the undead with an almost "Ghost In The Shell" quality. Hotwire herself is a detective who searches out the souls in repose much to the detriment of her own team. For someone whose emotions rule her professional life, she tries to a fault to contain their possibilities, The imagery, specifically as time slows after a girl in an accident wanders into a field, shows a separation of the ego hiding on a ethereal plane that the robots who are trying to satiate her cannot find. The aspect of what is not being said is actually very intense and manipulates what the reader is seeing through Hotwire's eyes. The journey is important here but not as much as the state of being of the characters exist in which provides reflection of a more novel-based interior life which is hard to translate into the comic universe. "Deep Cut" seems to have found the balance which will make it an interesting progression to witness.