Ofiusa #1 // Review
He is looking at a piece of art that’s being sold. It’s a tiny thing on a tiny island. One might forgive him for being perhaps a bit more interested in the artist than the. art. She’s gorgeous. “I wish someone would look at me the way you look at that painting,” she says. He says that he likes it. Asks her how much it costs. “Fifty Euros,” she says. He’s interested in bartering with her, though. Things are about to get interesting in Ofiusa. Writer/artist Guillem March opens a six-part series featuring a romantic triangle across two different timelines.
He doesn’t want to pay 50. He wants to pay 100. Naturally, she's a bit suspicious. After all, who in their right mind barter to pay more than the requested price? Clearly, he's after something. But she doesn't know what it is. That's on an island in the Mediterranean. Some other place and some other time he is in Madrid Spain. There’s another woman who calls herself Mar. she's there to help with his father's finances. He's a young entrepreneur. She's there to help. And there's a connection that seems to be growing between the two of them.
March set up an interesting parallel between the two different stories featuring the same character. The gentleman question has two distinctly different sets of temperament. But they might as well be the same person. Because, in fact, they are. Just in different circumstances. One on an island of paradise. The other in a big city. The characters are appealing enough and idiosyncratic enough. The personalities are drawn to the page in a way that feels charming and enjoyable. And variably there's going to be some kind of a collision between the two stories. The strength of this story could come down to how those two stories mesh in future issues.
March has a very warm social approach to the storytelling here. There's a strong difference between the fashion in both worlds. There's a strong difference in the way people carry themselves. Overall, however, emotion comes to the page with a beautifully vivid sense of style and form. March Methodist to catch his heroines from just the right angles that make them appear to be effortlessly beautiful. It's a fun place to visit for something like 30 pages a month. And it will be interesting to see where things go as the series progresses.
It's a very down-to-earth, sort of a romantic drama. (At least as witnessed by the first issue.) the fact that.March manages to make it visually appealing without doing anything terribly fantastic with this site setting or the themes or anything like that is pretty impressive. That I'll just a matter of reflecting things is just right on the page to create something that feels essentially enjoyable, even when it gets a little weird. Mark really has something in the first issue. Given the way he's bringing it to the page, the charm might not be able to survive too far into the series. But there's no reason to think that it isn't going to be fun.
