Vampirella: Armageddon #7 // Review
There’s a gentleman who is discussing matters with an associate. He’s asking how it is that Vampirella ended up in Hell. It’s not entirely clear. There’s some question about the nature of it all. The gentleman in question might be one of the damned. The associate he’s talking to is a bird with black feathers ad six crimson eyes. Hell is at war. Two powerful forces are fighting for supremacy over the world of damnation. Things get tense in Vampirella: Armageddon #7. Writer Tom Sniegoski continues an adventure fantasy descent into hell with artist Edu Menna and colorist Adriano Augusto.
Vampirella has been dealing with rather a lot lately. It's understandable. Things don't really slow down where she is. She is, after all, in Hell. Of things have gotten to be a little bit out of hand when the dragon shows up, though. Thankfully, she's not alone and having to deal with this thing. And there are a lot of different ways that they could just attempt to deal with a dragon in Hell. It's really just a matter of time. And there's no questioning that her instincts will kick-in. Those instants might not actually be the best, though. She has been suppressing them for quite some time. And there's a reason for that.
Sniegoski works his way through a narrative that fits together from a few different directions. The fact that no one narrative crowds out the other is a active really decent narrative balance. And all the perspectives on him aren't necessarily being seen from drastically, different angles, it's still a lot of fun to see different people, arriving in different ways and dealing with a war in the fiery underworld from different directions. So it's not like there is a whole lot going into the issue. And that's a lot of fun.
Menna and Augusto I'm working with a reheat, traditional perspective on Hell. There's nothing really terribly novel about the world that they're bringing to the page. But they're not really called to do anything. That's a radical reimagining of this particular version of the afterlife. That being said, be immensely of Hell isn't quite given the opportunity to boot brought to the page a way that feels as massive and endless it probably could. There are dimensions in the text about how big a place this is. And it's just too bad that the art isn't able to embrace the immensely of it.
Through it all, there's a wet and crisp to the dialogue that rests at the heart of the work that's being presented. Everything feels well placed on the page. And given the right momentum, it could turn into something really interesting as the series continues. There have been a number of really notably, memorable moments in the course of the series thus far. It will be interesting to see where things move from here. It feels as though this particular version of Vampirella is embracing a kind of complexity that could be interesting further down the line.
