Chachu #3 // Review
She feels like a sausage and a silk casing that's been put on display for the rich and desperate. She might be desperate as well. But in a completely different way. There's a gentleman whose wife just vanished. And there's a lot of danger going around. Her way of helping out it happens to involve wearing a very tight dress. It's just how things have to work right now. But they're about to turn around in.Chachu #3. Writer Iman Vellani and artist Marianna Ignazzi continue and enjoyable hard boiled mystery with colorist Joedie Bellaire. There's quite a bit of complexity in a dramatic story that's so engaging with earthbound.
They're in Vegas. They are investigating the disappearance of his wife. A Hollywood actress. And so they find themselves in Las Vegas. In a slimy bar. Things seem relatively safe. However, there's no telling how close they're going to be able to get to actually finding the woman that they're looking for. It all seems quite distant. I'm as hard to tell exactly how serious the situation is. Meanwhile, she's tied up in bed. There might be a sense of futility about things for her. There might be some sense of danger.
Leila is on an adventure. She's learning a lot. It's sort of a coming-of-age suspense thriller. That's a particular mashup of genres that doesn't necessarily show up all that often. And so that much is actually quite a bit of fun. As is.Vellani’s pros. The dialogue comes across very crisp. The narration from the perspective of Leila. Does a clever job of revealing story while also revealing more about the psyche of the main character. There's a lot going on in and around the edges of the action that feels very engaging. The atmosphere feels very thick. And the extended ensemble of characters all seem to be interesting in their own ways.
It's in 1977. The art style actually feels a lot like something that would've shown up on a comic book in 1977. There's a delicate interplay between the heavily rendered Inc. that the artist is working with and the color palette that the colorist is working with. Iris might be able to do something that feels a little bit more contemporary with the art, but it would lose something. The specific personalities of the characters as they move through the story have quite a range of subtlety and intricately, which goes a long way towards adding immersive to the overall story.
Vellani is a really fun writer to hang out with on the page. There are interesting things being things being juxtaposed conceptually between crime, desire, fame, and a whole bunch of other things that mingle on the page. There may not be a whole lot of deeper insights that are coming to the page just yet. However, a hard boiled detective mystery that also serves as a coming-of-age story for the main character really feels like it breaking new ground in some sense. It's a lot of fun.
