Sleep #5 // Review
Jon is waking-up in the local high school. The place has been trashed. But he woke up in the high school. And that would suggest that what it was that they were trying to do actually kind of worked. He'll find out just how wrong he is in Sleep #5. Writer/artist Zander Cannon continues a stylish and moody, horror, drama inspired by the long tradition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. By the fifth issue, it begins to take on sort of a classic horror, drama sort of fulfill. The black-and-white is broken up by occasional punctuations of color, which you seemed to suggest that there might be more on the horizon.
It doesn’t take Jon and his friend long to find the next body. Evidently the thing that he becomes at night, had a left, done his damage and then returned to where he had been locked up. So it wasn't enough. The erratically, any amount of chains and the concrete and so on wood, be incapable of stopping the thing he becomes at night. But there has to be some way out, right? There has to be some way I would be beyond the horror of what it is that he's doing to this small town.
There is a clever progression that Cannon is working with. The gradual increases in intensity of horror continue to work around the edges of everything. The big, central mystery of what it is that he is continues to develop. It's kind of odd to think that the series has come this far and there hasn't been any direct rendering of the attacks when they happen. That adds to the mystery of the creepiness of the whole thing. If Cannon was simply show what was going on in the course of the horror it would definitely lose something.
In the absence of direct presentation of the attack attacks,Cannon isn't giving himself a whole lot of room coming around with respect to the horror. The aftermath of whatever it is, that happens, continues to haunt the page. But it doesn't have the kind of payoff quite yet and that it would have. The constant revelation of the new damage that's done every morning begins to feel a little bit repetitious. Thankfully, Cannon’s rendering of the damage, continues to find its own appeal on the page. And it continues to be quite fascinating in its own right.
There is a sinking feeling around the edges of each panel that there could be some major plot twist at the end of the mystery that somehow cheapens it. There could be a stinger at the end of this whole thing which would just totally destroyed the beauty of the mystery of what Cannon is bringing to the beach and it would just be awful. There's no reason to believe that Cannon would necessarily all victim to this sort of thing. As the mystery continues to lurk around the corners of the action, the possibility that the revelation at the end of the all could be disappointment, continues to haunt every page.
