W0Rldtr33 #19 // Review
They've got the drones up and operational. They're on the phone to the guy on the inside. Everything seems to be more or less where it needs to be for the operation in question. However, these things are rarely go as expected. Especially with the parties that are involved in this particular operation. Things could get pretty ugly. And operations like this have a tendency to get a little bit out of control. They're going to find out what that means in W0Rldtr33 #19. Writer James Tynion IV reaches the penultimate chapter of his dystopian cyberpunk series with artist Fernando Blanco and colorist Jordie Bellaire.
Liam’s the one on the inside. He’s wearing a clean suit and carrying a gun. With any luck, he won't have to use the gun. He's just looking for information. And he's going to have to get it off the desk of one of the most powerful people in the world. Thankfully, once he's gotten by the initial security, he's going to be right where he needs to be. While he's downloading the information that he's downloading, he's going to notice something in the desk in question. The moment he notices it, he's going to have to run.
Tynion begins to bring a lot of elements together in the penultimate chapter of the series. The series has run through a lot of different elements of horror that theoretically could have been a lot more interesting if they've just been framed in the right way. As it is, he's not quite framing them in a way that is going to necessarily work the way it needs to work. However, that doesn't mean that this particular issue isn't still very captivating. It made out of worked on the more interesting abstract levels to this point, but this particular issue is very effective at being a compelling suspense thriller.
Tynion doesn't exactly make it easy to frame the action of this particular drama. There's a lot going on in a lot of different directions. There are couple of different places in downtown San Francisco in the middle of the night that are the main setting up the action. But there's also a possibly much more secure facility in Palo Alto. The art team is given the challenge of differentiating between the two well managing to ratchet up attention in a visual world that includes complex interiors and flying drones. Blanco keep it all remarkably vivid in a visual space that is given a breathtaking amount of depth and nuanced luminosity by Bellaire.
Given the nature of the story is still possible that the loft your ambitions of the script may still turn into something. A lot can happen in the last issue of a series like this. The narrative is so expensive that it's difficult to imagine where it would go in any kind of a sequel series. So whatever is going to happen in the final issue is going to have the opportunity to go almost anywhere in resolving the plot.
