You’ll Do Bad Things #6 // Review
There’s a killer. there’s. man tied to a chair wearing a ball gag. It’s an interior. The place is decaying. It looks like it hasn’t been out of regular use for years. Then the writer comes-in. A series of crimes have been committed based on what he’s been writing. He’s there at the scene of the crime. And that’s when the police show-up. It’s going to be difficult for him to explain himself in You’ll Do Bad Things #6. Writer Tyler Boss wraps-up his series with artist Adriano Turtulici and colorist Andrea Sanna.
Things get a littlebit confussed once the police show-up. Horror author Seth Holms is caught-up in it all. Naturally he’s going to have to defend himself in some way when the blood starts flying. When things settle, he’s going to be captured and in a kind of potential danger. There are crazy people who are acting out his murders he’s writing about. Fiction becomes something else and they want to know how to end it. There’s a kind of insanity in it all, but it’s very methocial. And it’s only a matter of time before everything is going to have to be resolved.
It’s been a cute idea for a series. Boss has managed a few clever moments in and around the edges of it all, but it has lacked a whole lot of distinct persoality that would hae given it any kind of a sense. of power. The idea isn’t enough to bring the story across and Boss doesn’t exactly execute it in a way that feels neatly as inspired as the idea that he’s delivered to the page. The idea is kind of fun, but Boss’ execution lacks the kind of elegant sophistication or sick craziness that would make an idea like thisfeel like something more than a casual stroll through a few crime-filled issues.
Turtulicihas a very fluid sense of execution with respect to the big climactic action sequence The problem is that it all kind of blurs together with the coloring. The heavy shades of red that coat the page have a tendency to wash-out the details. This could be an interesting way to tell a story if it involved the need to scan the page for specific details awash in red, but this is an action sequence...the type of thing that thrives on highly kinetic visual impact. It would be a lot more impresssive if it didn’t involve wading through a hell of a lot of reds to get to the heart of the action.
And then there’s the end. Which is...the end. It’s kind of difficult to tell a story involving a horror author writing about murders and then being exposed to them in person. It’s such an obvious format for a murder drama. There would need to be more of a clever twist on the idea to make it feel like something that worth diving into on more than casually glancing read.
