M1: Monster Racing League #4 // Review
Dev is used to winning the races. Or at least she had been. Before other people were juicing. And because this is a particularly dark horror science fiction world that she's a part of, the juicing in question involves fellow racers, ingesting things that turn them into real life monsters on the racetrack. Dev doesn't like to lose, though. She's got a choice to make in. M1: Monster Racing League #4. The writing team of Lily Windom and Robert Windom continue a fun sci-fi horror, adventure with artist Jae Lee. Color comes to the page courtesy of.June Chung.
Dev is upset. She's looking at a vile of the juice in question when her father walks in. He can tell that there's something going on with her. She's lost and thought. And he wants to talk to her about it. So naturally, she's going to ask him. She's going to ask him if it's worth pursuing success if you lose yourself in the process. He might not know exactly what it is that she's talking about. But he knows that he sees that drive for success in her that he saw in her mother. And he knows better than to try to surprise it.
There's kind of a major turning point in the plot at this stage. And there is a major revelation at the end of the issue. There's a lot going on. And it's a lot of fun to see it play out. Above all,Dev continues to serve as a very appealing central character. It's a coming-of-age story that feels very relatable on a whole bunch of different levels. It is a ridiculous amplification of the sorts of things that so many people have to deal with on their way into the larger world from childhood. But it's fun.
Lee's artwork cuts and slashes across the page in some of the more vivid racing scenes to grace this racing-based series. So much of the story has been off the track. In his particular instance, there's a major scene that's taking place during a race. It doesn't necessarily look as dynamic on the page as it could. There are a lot of close-ups that are necessary in order to deliver the story that's being told. However, it's hard to get a larger view of the actual race in a script that requires so many close-ups. The layout does actually a great deal of the job of giving the overall impression of the speed. Lots of angular panels and sound effects and things of that nature. However, key moments aren't necessarily translated to the page quite as well as they could be.
Nevertheless, Lee's artwork is as stylish as ever. And.Dev’s emotional state is very vividly captured for the page. So the important emotional center is still there. And the stylishness of the artwork continues to conjure its own gravity and momentum in another strange release satisfying adventure with an American teenager in Tokyo.
