Exquisite Corpses #7 //
She says he’s sepeeding-up the game. He says that he doen’t know what she’s talking about, but he does. The circle shouldn't post for another few hours. Already in the burn is spreading. What's more, it is spreading towards some mass gathering there are a lot of people there shooting things are going to get very ugly very quickly in Exquisite Corpses #7. The writing team of Michael Walsh and James Tynon IV continue to navigate their cereal over in the direction of the big climax with the art team of CLaire Roe and Michael Walsh. Color comes to the page courtest of Jordie Bellaire.
The locals know that something is going on in Oak Valley. They don't know what it is, but they know it's dangerous. Killers are on the loose. It seems organized. But it's not. A woman wearing a fox mask, holding a katana attacking a guy with a gold mask as possible. Somebody saw it through somebody local. They know something so. But they don't know what it is. All they know is that survival is not exactly guaranteed kind of strength extremely little town that really shouldn't have anything like this going on. Bad things are coming.
Walsh and Tynion ramp--up the pacing of the series as the plot intensifies. The drama between the families engaging in the game parallel the drama of the families of potential victims as the killers are on the loose mercilessly hunting weach other and other potential victims. The decision to move things on in the direction where the game is breaking down seems like a logical choice. After all, it was either that or just completely follow it down to the wire with the brackets and everything. And that might've been a little bit more satisfying the direction that the series is heading in now. Theoretically, though, allowing the order to take an unexpected improve the stories chances of ultimately being satisfied.
As the intensity begins to break down, there’s a definite sense of the visuals beoming less and less distinct. There’s a chase involving a couple of killers. A van explodes. There’s fear in the shadows of Oka Valley at night. Amidst it all, there’s a wash of color being borought to the page by Bellaire that feels suitably intense. It’s stylish without being realistic or northboundrichly detailed. Everything seems to be splashed across the page at odd angles as the series begin s to reach its climax.
THe hope is that there’s some sense of conclusion about it all that might feel justified. THe series had been set-up as a simplehorror competition with brackets and everything. As the story begins to break down, it begins to feel a bit like a post-aocalytpic competition drama where some sort of hero is going to emerge to challenge the whole thing and destroy thesystem, which would be nice and everything but it would lack the kind of intensity that it might have otherwise held if they’d folowed-through to the end of it with the rhythm they established at the beginning of the series.
