White Sky #3 // Review
Violet and Walter are on the run from the ghosts. She’s well armed, but that’s probably not going to necessarily mean anything to the ghosts. Getting an awful situation, but it’s that much worse for Walter. He’s a spirit medium. Violet and Walter are going to have to work in order to survive in White Sky #3. Writer William Harms and artist J.P. Mavinfa continue a strikingly haunting, post, apocalyptic, horror, drama with colorist Lee Loughridge. It’s a slow moving serial that continue to intriguingly crawl its way across the page. Harms and company continue to develop an appealing horror saga.
Later on in the back of a semi truck. She’s been working after him. He became a responsibility once she freed him from the bed that he was tied to. He has agreed to help her find her father. So she’s getting something out of it too. They have a little bit of food. Baby food to be precise they can’t afford to have too much of it. Way so much available when they have to stretch it out. They should be in good shape when I get to San Francisco. He has friends in San Francisco, who can help.
Harms does a little more world building around the edges of the central drama. There’s a heavy fatigue about the narration. Whatever it is, these people have lived through has a really number on that, and they are struggling to survive in the world seems to have completely slipped at the bars of civilization. People make connections by sheer happenstance. There are no guarantees Tragedy. Can strike at any moment. There’s a beautiful stillness about it all that feels quite impressive. Harms he is taking his time with the story which seems to be shooting it quite well.
Mavinta allows, the drama to restlessly twitch on the page. Overall stillness of the physical action drives home for intensity of the script as vast expenses stretched their way across the pages. There is the occasional closer. The occasional genuine moment of emotional connection between characters. There may not be a whole lot of action hitting the page, but there certainly is a very high gravity about it. The stillness of the page and the haunting simplicity of the images create a very immersive mood that lingers long after the last panel. Violet and Walter make for a very appealing pair of people to follow into the wasteland.
Deeper things begin to become more and more apparent as the series continues. It’s only a matter of time before a more complete understanding of the world balloons interview. There remains a powerful mystery around the edges of everything that feels very compelling. Everything seems to be progressing Towards some kind of a larger realization larger elements, impacting a world of White Sky. Harms’ slow and steady approach to lot development with the serial seems to be serving the overall stillness of the series quite well. Violet seems like a really interesting person. It’s been fascinating following her around at the end of the world.
