This Ends Tonight #3 // Review
It’s 1:28 a.m. in Las Vegas. Rachel is calling her dad. She tells him that she and her friends are okay for now. Someone let a sword. She can do this just like he trained her to do. And she CAN do this. She just needs to step over a few corpses and find the guy with the briefcase in This Ends Tonight #3. Writer Gerry Duggan wraps-up his three-issue min-series with a fun bit of action horror that is once again brought to page and panel by artist Jae Lee. Things are going to get a lot more messy before the final panel...
The sword in question had been unceremoniously dropped. Impaled a mohawked gentleman tight. through the forehead. Perfect aim, really. She couldn’t have hit him better if she’d tried...and if she HAD tried, she would have had a great deal of difficulty doing so as she happened to be flying through the air on a motorcycle at the time. So it was rather unfortunate for the mowhaked gentleman, but it was luck for Rachel as she DID mange toget a weapon out of it and it WAS something that she kinda knows how to use, so she’s in a good place...so long as she can find the guy with the briefcase...
Duggan packs the page with action and dark wit that keep everything moving from cover to cover. It's not always all that clear as to exactly what's going on. But that's part of the fun of it. It's all moving across the page so quickly. You can hardly tell what's going on. Like a wild night in Las Vegas or whateve it may not be terribly compelling at the end of the last panel. But it's a lot of fun getting through the night with Rachel and company.
Lee it does a really good job of capturing everything for the page. The actual setting doesn't really seem to make much of a difference. It could be taking place anywhere really. Visually anyway. The spirit of it is very Vegas. And maybe it only needs to really land in the script. The setting. The location. Maybe that only really needs to exist in the script. Because the rest of it is actually very beautiful. And it's all weird and twisted way. It's very gorgeous to see how everything comes together on the page.
