Poison Ivy #36 // Review
Somehow, despite her own best efforts, Ivy has found herself surrounded by people. They’re all people who care about her. the problem is that they don’t particularly like each other. She tells herself that if they all love the Earth that should be good enough. It’s not, of course. And she knows it. Complexity for Ivy continues to enhance in Poison Ivy #36. Writer G. Willow Wilson continues a thoroughly engaging serial with another satisfying chapter that is brought to page and panel by artist Marcio Takara and colorist Arif Prianto.
A couple of Ivy’s closest friends are really concerned about her, She hasn’t gotten out in a long time and she’s been kind of quiet. Doesn’t seem to want to talk to anybody. This isn’t what she wanted and they know it. She’s got a group of followers who are very, very serious about ecoterrorism. And she has so r arely had an army of people to work with, so naturally she’s going to want to take advantage of the situation...while leaning-into becoming precisely the kind of villain the heroes seem to think that she is.
Wilson marks a major turning point for Ivy as she moves along through the delicate intricacies of a very large group of people.Wilson embraces the intricacies and complexities of Ivy’s life with a very coherent and articulate in her monologue from the title character. It all hits the page in a way that feels substantially impressive. Emotions are engaged. Deeper philosophy of world change our also explored. Above all the central theme of the issue is that of trust. And it's very difficult to define the complexities of that from within a ongoing fictional narrative. Things tend to get tripped over each other. Wilson does a really good job of making and maintaining a complexity that hits on every level, including deep emotional ones and more nuanced political ones.
Takara it's a variety of different impressive, moods and forms with the art. So much of it is just.Ivy returning to her former stature as a super villain. And so she starts to hold herself and her appearance, the way she had in the past as more of a super villain. That being said, there is an intelligence behind what she's doing that seems to express all of the characters development that's going on over the course of the past three years in the series. It's really hard to maintain that kind of subtle nuance. But the fact.Takara has managed to maintain work on this series for three straight years now there really is a dramatic complexity that's drawn into the subtlety of Ivy in everything from the way she glances around the page to the way that she postures as she talks to her followrs. It’s all brilliantly-rendered stuff.
Ivy’s life has come along way in the three years her title has been around for. WIlson has been with her the whole way and it’s been delicious. It’s so reqarding to see a single writer connect this strongly with a single character in a series that works on multiple levels from the surface-level action to the abstract emotional to the even more abstract intellectual levels. There’s so much going on deep within the story that feels so very, very captivating on so many levels. Beyond that, the reliably impressive art by a very well-articulated art team has made Poison Ivy one of the most consistently impressive titles to come about in the past few years.
