Chachu #2 // Review
Leila and her uncle are driving through the desert. They’re on the road to Las Vegas. There’s a whole lot that they don’t know about each other, but they’re going to have to learn if they’re going to be able to trust each other. They might just be going into some dangerous territory as the two of them are on the trail of his missing wife in Chachu #2. Writer Iman Vellani and artist Marianna Ignazzi approach the midway point of their appealing mystery thriller with colorist Jordie Bellaire. The second issue delves a bit further into family history in an appealing way.
Meanwhile, Cleo is in bed. She’s waking-up a bit disoriented, but that’s to be understood. She’s in kind of a strange space. The good news is that she’s being fed breakfast in bed. The bad news is that her ankles appear to be tied together with some very thick rope. It’s Neil. Neil has kidnapped her. And she’s not exactly in the mood for breakfast given the current state of things. Meanwhile, Leila and her chachu visit an old relative looking for some kind of information that would lead them in the right direction. It’s not going to be easy: they hardly know the woman in question.
The patient of the story seems well executed. There's quite a lot of how leaning into the relationship between two simple characters. It doesn't quite hit the potential it has. However, it's really fascinating and developed. It's really fascinating seeing Vellani’s patience where they're storytelling. Comic book medium is an exact number for patients. The tendency to explode quickly. The title character gets through a few pages of exposition about history and it's only written at the end that Leila knows it’s the plot of an old movie that he delivered to her. Not likely to be family history at all...and so the mystery remains as the story continues into its midpoint half with Issue #3.
Thick lines and heavy ink allow plenty of space for Bellaire to work on the colors around the edges of the rendering. Ignazzi draws-in the drama with subtle movements and motions across a page that contains just enough details to firmly deliver style and setting. Bellaire’s colors land and earthy warmth to the visual reality of the story quite a few interesting highlights managed to care setting a very textured look.
It don't feel like it's hitting a page just the right way. There's a kind of calm sophistication about the way Tyrone package is being presented on the page. Advanced motion and motion, poison posture fill the page in the way that feels very distinct. And very much unlike just about anything else on the comic rack today. No fantasy. No science fiction. Even the crime seems to be somewhere in the background it gets deeply into a very easy earthbound look at the way people interact who are our families who might be strangers. A very sharp, look at the way people connect.
