Gehenna: Naked Aggression #4 // Review
She’s taken the kid to a really awful place. It’s a bar filled with the kind of guys that you don’t want to be in a bar with. Toguh guys who look like they could hurt people and not mind doing it. She could leave, but she doesn't really have much of a choice. She's on the bottom and this is her place for the people who are after her probably wouldn't think to find her. So maybe it's not any safer. It's just a different kind of danger occupying page and panel in Gehenna: Naked Aggression #4. Writer Patrick Kindlon and artist Maurizio Rosenzweig wrap-up the opening series of a promising new serial.
She's going to claim to bean addict. It's not going to be real believable. She may look a little bit rough, but that goes with the territory. Doesn't look like someone who's frail and dying. She doesn’t look like the sort of chemical dependency that’s rolling through her. She seems perfectly fine. And that's why it seems suspicious. It's only a matter of time before suspicion to aggression and when that happens the gentleman taking action against her is going to be some serious danger. She might be forced to hurt him, but at least she won't have to do anything she doesn't want to do.
Kindlon takes the story in a direction an interesting direction against the grain of expectation. It was totally expected that nothing would be completely resolved by the end of the series. With the pacing of the script being what it was, it seemed very unlikely that everything would be and tidy at the end of this particular set of four issues. The exact resolution of this particular series of issues, however, turns out to me development for the title character companion. The plot twist and issues delivers a intriguing set of possibilities for the future of any potential single series. They already got one planned. There are a lot of directions that they could take it. That could be really interesting.
Rosenzweig carves a lot of grit and darkness into the pages. There's a real sense of danger and malice that seems to be rolling across the page. Every now and again it explodes out the page with the right kind of impact. It's remarkably brutal new places. It has a sort of grace about it, and keeps it tumbling from page to page with a profound sense of impact throughout the final issue of a really remarkably powerful series of encounters.
The whole totality of what's going on of course is kind of weird. There hasn't been enough of a breather for one moment to get back to really be able to get a strong sense of the background for what's going on. The plot twist at the end really feels like it makes a hell of a lot of sense to give us this situation. There have been lots of indicators throughout the series of things might be moving in a direction that couldn't end up being a little bit more outside around the traditional crime action series.
