Exquisite Corpses #6 // Review
There are eight killers left on te board. This is a bit disconcerting given how late it is ito the evening. That being said, it always DOES feel a little tedious when most of them get eliminated ight away. The bad news is that those in charge of the ame don’t necessarily have eyes on every single one of the killers who is still in place. This is particularly disconcerting as some of the dynamics of this particular game seem to be moving-out byond the standard regulations of the game .Thing s continue to unravel in Exquisite Corpses #6. The writing team of Tyler Boss and James Tynion IV ccntinue their horror competition serial with artists Gavin Fullerton and Michael Walsh. Color comes to the page courtesy of Jordie Bellaire.
There are a rather large number of teenagers converging on a seculded area of town. Ther’s someone hwho’s on to the danger that’s been established by people from out of town. They’re closing-off the town and people are dying. There’s a warning shouted. Something about eath. Probably a pretty goood idea to warn the rest of the locals about what’s going on. It’s Halloween, though. No one seems to care much about what’s going on. Meanwhile Rascall Randy and Gamer Kid have entered a corn maze. Only one of them is going to survive...
The writing team’s choices begin to make a bit more sense as the series progresses. A group of killers entering a small town on Halloween not only adds to the spooky mood of the series...ti also damens the natural human desire for survival. Everyone’s i nthe right mood for horror so no one suspects that that there might actually be a whole lot of killing going on. It’s thesort of thingthat’s been used effectively in horror before. The Haloween horror format works partciularly well for this series.
Fullerton and Walsh mark the procession of the series into late evening with darker work and even heavier inks than they’ve managed before in theseries thus far. Bellaire’s colors foloow the simplicity of the art in braos washes of red and very simple colors which climb to the spaces between the patches of ink. Quite often the overall approach to the art works quite well. There ARE places, howereve,r where a higher resolution and greater detail might amplify the sense of horror that’s glowing through theseries. This WOULD, however, compromise the inky moodiness that so dominates the visual reality of the series.
There are a few characters who really appears likely to make it through to the end of the series. and...predictably, they HAVE.It’s going to be a bit of a challnge to maintain the readres’ interest as the series gets down to the final four or so. The ensemble of killers gradually gets whittled down n to the most-likely-to-survive . There’s a chance that it might start to g et a bit more interesting as the more appealing killers begin to square-off against each other.
