VEIL #1

Review by: akamuu

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Size: pages
Price: 3.99

Ok, I only picked this up because it had an Ashley Wood cover.   IDW has been more miss than hit for me, lately.  Apart from Locke & Key, and the David Lapham 30 Days Of Night, nothing’s really grabbed me.  A quick flip through sucked me in with Gabriel Hernandez’s deceptively simple looking art.  Some of the backgrounds look very sketchy, but detailed.  A very purposefully basic look.

The plot has been done in a ton of films, comics, books, short stories, board games, RPGs, computer games, etc.   A police officer who can talk to the *yawn* dead.  Many of her fellow officers don’t believe her, and those that do, aren’t sure she’s trustworthy.  But we, the reader, can see that she’s telling the truth, and that it haunts her.

The main character, Chris Luna, has a noirish or horror movie name.  She looks like the actress who would play the weird girl who talks to dead things in a movie.  Everything about this comic is cliche.  And, yet, El Torres writes it in such a way, I couldn’t help but love it.  He seems to really care about his character, and wants you to understand her.  I get the idea he might be from Maine, himself.  If not, good on him for giving me the impression that he knows what he’s talking about.

All in all, this book was a very pleasant surprise from an artist and a writer I’ve never heard of before.  I’m probably choosing this as my pick, as there wasn’t a stand-out awesome book that out-awesomed everything else, and I think people should check this book out.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent

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