SEVERED #7 (OF 7)

Review by: TheNextChampion

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Story by SCOTT SNYDER & SCOTT TUFT
Art & Cover by ATTILA FUTAKI

Size: 0 pages
Price: 2.99

Well this is it! The most horrifying and disturbing comic book to come out in a long time is ending. It’s a bit of both bad and good for me. Bad because this has been a great horror mini and it continues to cement Scott Snyder as one great horror writer. What’s the good news? Well I no long have to peak through my fingers to read a comic. (Okay that is kind weak, so I guess in general this series ending or taking a hiatus perhaps is not good. I want more!)

If you remember what Jack looks like in the first issue, missing an important limb, then you can kinda guess where this issue goes. Snyder and Scott Tuft certainly don’t hold anything back as ‘The Salesman’ goes to town on torturing Jack. We get some insight into why he likes doing what he does, but it’s left ambiguous for (hopefully) the next volume. There are some curve balls to get us to the present and while it makes it feel like a generic horror movie at times, it still works for me. It would have been nice if the character that comes from no where got some time (maybe a page or two) so it doesn’t feel so dues ex machina. But again I’m being lenient because Snyder and Tuft had to get this story finished somehow. Still, nitpick aside, this is a nail biting final chapter that gets quite gory and disturbingly fun to read.

The only thing that bothered me about this issue was the art. Attila Futaki is a great artist and Image got a great find by letting him work on this title. But I’d be lying if I didn’t say that some of the pages are a little wonky. Not the pages where someone is getting drugged and his/her point of view is distorted. That’s a nice touch. But sometimes Jack and ‘The Salesman’ looks off so much that they look like different people at times. That and I think the colorist, Greg Guilhaumond, uses too much of a brown palette. It’s not ‘Ultimates 3’ brownish tone but sometimes it would be nice if the coloring was a bit more vibrant then it is.

While there are some hitches along the way, this is a pretty damn good finale for such a disturbing comic book. Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft have a great hit on their hands and I really hope a proposed sequel happens down the line. Attila Futaki’s art and the coloring does drop a bit but it’s nothing to serious. In the end, it’s a testament to prove that you can write and draw a damn good horror comic which is so rare in today’s comic world.

Story: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good

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