Death Vigil #3 // Review
Bernadette is in her study when she is contacted by a robed figure. She is informed of a necromancer is there to see her. He claims that he is coming to see her in peace. This strikes her as a strange wage to surrender his life. But she's perfectly fine with it. After all it would cost her nothing to meet with the gentleman question. THings are going to get interesting for her in Death Vigil #3. Writer/artst iStjepan Seijic continues and enjoyably, interesting, mystical journey into short and sorcery fantasy. Though the overall areas is being explored by the narrative, aren't necessarily all that interesting, the characters are. And that makes all the difference.
The necromancer is on his knees before Bernadette. He claims that he comes in peace. She asks him why it is that he thinks that there can be peace between them. He tells her that he is described ofSeraphim Order of necormancers. That is easily one of the most dangerous of the necromantic cult. And so if he is willing to meet with her on a very unequal footing, clearly something has happened. And that's all the more reason to be very careful with one of them even if he seems to be completely at their mercy. After all, his religious order was a bunch of fanatics...
Seijic somewhat elegantly crafts, a story that involves a great many moving pieces. The pacing and composition of the story are very well executed. The author and artist does a very good job of choosing select scenes within a larger context that move along the plot while rendering the fundamental conflicts inherent in the story. A lot of time is covered in a single issue. And that can be kind of tricky to negotiate just right in the context of a comic book, which is inherently immediate. Generally the stories in sequential artwork better when they're all happening right there on the page. Seijic does a good job of picking and choosing the events and the items that are going to make the page and any interest of advancing a very emotional emotionally affect affecting story.
And as a writeR Seijic understands his strength as a visual storyteller as well. As an artist. And so he chooses those moments that are going to have the most emotional impact on the reader. Bernadette herself has a wide range of emotions that are being brought to the page. And they're being brought to the page in a way that is amplified without seeing ridiculously over the top. Everything seems to be very strikingly well modulated in another really satisfying issue.
Bernadette has quite a lot of texture to her. She's dominant and powerful and yet also vulnerable and submissive at the same time. She wants to be independent and yet she belongs for connection. There's a maternal thing going on this issue which is really appealing as well. Lots of different elements coming to play and it's a really, really nice focus on a single character. This doesn't often happen and sword and sorcery fantasy. So often it tends to focus on larger and ensembles that embrace Much bigger concepts. But here you just have really appealing focus on a single character at least for this issue.
