Witchblade #6 // Review
Sara Pezzini has a visitor at her apartment. He’s an old friend of her father’s. He was his partner on the police force. Sara Ian’s exactly feeling good about the guy who is listening her. He’s quoting the Yeats and Shakespeare and doing an awful job of it. So it is on the opening pages.Of Witchblade #6.Writer Margueritte Bennett continues an enjoyable walk with an old favorite super heroine in another issue brought to page and panel by Giuseppe Cafaro with cooor by Arif Prianto. Not every character in the ensemble is necessarily as interesting as the title character. The issue does drag a bit around the edges. But it’s still a lot of fun.
The guy is suffering from a kind of darkness. Literally. It’s spewing out of his eyes and long hair like streams. Sarah is told you just let him go home. Let him leave. However, that would probably be an exceedingly bad idea. Sarah‘s instincts may be right about that. But they may also be bringing her closer into a danger that she couldn’t possibly fathom, it’s so hard to tell with these things. The supernatural does have a tendency to reflect into the natural and do a street level police detectives. Instincts fit into a deeper understanding of the occult?
Bennet mixes the supernatural with the criminal in a way that feels refreshingly engaging. There’s also a little bit of family drama and quite a lot of peripheral horror. That seems to be animating everything. A lot of the issue with the cheesiness militia around the edges is most likely a problem with aspects of the series which go back to its origins back in the 1990s. Bennett’s writing is very solid and it’s remarkably well articulated missed the unique shadowy corners of darkness. The beloved character seems to have it.
Cafaro’s art embraces the darkness with a Death Towne. The fine lines change my name to style, which has been popular in and around comic books for decades now. The color as considerable them things to some, particularly deft work under Prianto’s hands. Action is the page and just the right way. There is some very clever work with framing and layout that keeps the issue feeling white visually appealing. The drama might lack a little bit of subtlety here and there, but that probably has more to do with the intensity of what’s going on on the page than it does any lack of ability by the art team.
There are major things are good here. And it would be interesting to see them settle down for long enough to establish more of a connection between Sarah and the vet which she now is suffering from. Domestic devices that station interlock is always been something that’s been a lot more interesting than a lot of the rest of series. However, no one seems to be able to focus on it well enough to really do it justice. The relationship between the magical artifact and the woman in question. It’s so difficult to get that framed in just the right way. But it is still a lot of fun.
