Golden Rage #1 // Review
It’s a dystopia, but it’s a totally badass sort of a dystopia. It’s a cold, unforgiving island populated by women who society has deemed useless. Old women serve their purpose and they’re sent off to an island where they must f ight to the death...make friends and dessert. It’s a harsh life, but it’s a respectable one. And it’s about to change in Golden Rage #1. Writer Chrissy Williams opens a story with artist Laura Knight and colorist Sofie Dodgson. It’s a very cleverly-rendered concept in an appealingly novel milieu, It’ll be interesting to see where WIlliams and company take the narrative.
Sometimes the silence is intense. She likes it, though. It’s an island off in the middle of nowhere. She’s watching the sunrise amidst the quiet desolation and the snow and the cold. It’s all quite a relaxing sort of a situation, but she’s about to find something that’s going to make things quite a bit more interesting. Meanwhile a couple of the island’s inhabitants are staring each other down with axes. They’re trash talking each other before they engage in the competition. It’s not some kind of battle. They aren’t maniacs. They’re chopping firewood. It’s hard work ,but it beats sitting around in the cold.
All too often dystopia is a coming-of-age sort of a genre. Williams is doing a really good job of finding a fresh perspective on it. If anyone's going to have to live through dystopia, it's going to be old people. And it really is pretty interesting if it happens to be old women. The author has developed quite a bit of backstory that will come into place as things progress. The map at the island at issue’s end give a perspective to the isolated events going on in the course of the issue. It’s a well-thought-out introduction to a whole new series that looks like a great deal of fun.
Knight is given the enable opportunity to completely defined the visuals of an island all her own. However, it has to be firmly rooted in reality. There's no superhuman thing going on here. It's just people trying to survive in a cold and snowy wilderness. There could have been incredibly. However, Knight manages to find the right. Intensity to make it work on the page.
It’s a fun idea for a series that feels firmly rooted in a very believable sort of a world. the overall premise doesn't necessarily feel all that believable. People are going to keep track of people, right? There are definitely aspects of society that would revere the mothers and grandmothers. There definitely be those who would want them protected. Those would want them included in society. The world beyond the island isn't really given a chance to explain itself just yet. It'll be interesting to see how a comprehensive backsstory would explain the basic premise, but there’s more than enough going on in the foreground to keep the bigger questions about the world of Golden Rage at bay for now.
