The Visitor #2
Valiant Entertainment 2019
Written by Paul Levitz
Illustrated by MJ Kim
Coloured by Ulises Arreola
Lettered by Simon Bowland
Chaos strikes the Big Apple as The Visitor targets a group of revolutionary international scientists!
I was loving the idea behind this last issue and with this one I am over the moon for it. Paul has gone above and beyond what I was expecting of him here and has created something intriguing, mysterious and incredibly intelligent. There are a number of things going on here and they all tie together and yet we are still largely unaware of what roles they play and why things are actually happening. So this is one those times when Ms. Dauber is a character you can relate to as she's the voice of how we all feel reading this. That she is this integral character in the story and she's an integral voice for the reader at the same time is something I really don't think I have seen before. She voices her concerns and her desires to do her job better by trying to get the information that keeps us glued to the story.
I really do believe that with such amazing character development we see here that keeping us all in the dark about what's going on is a feature that really is the hook for the reader. The way that we see the characters act and react to the situations and circumstances they find themselves in is how we see them grow and evolve as people. This allows us to gauge the characters and either trust them or think they are hiding something and that's kind of ominous. The story & plot development here through how the sequence of events and how the reader learns information is done in a very different and unique way. The pacing is great and as it takes you through the pages and reveals the twists and turns along the way it really creates a strong ebb & flow for the book.
A part of me feels like this would make a great procedural show on like Netflix as it has all these elements to it that thrills the reader and frustrates them in equal parts. These are necessary qualities to possess if you are going to engage your audience and boy is the audience, in this case the reader, engaged. Paul is doing something I haven't seen before and I am completely digging it.
The interiors here are quite spectacular. The linework we see is superb and and how the varying weights are being utilised to bring out the attention to detail that w see is utterly marvellous. The style to is this more streamlined, Americanised, manga and that is mixed with the way we see the city and all the modern elements of buildings. The utilisation of the backgrounds and how we see them in the composition in the panels help to bring this depth perception, scale and an overall sense of size and scope to the book. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective inside the panels show this marvellous eye for storytelling. The colour work that we see here is beautifully rendered. I like the way we see the various hues and tones within any given colour utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work.
There really is this array of unique personalities in play here and they all seem to work against one another keeping you guessing at who's doing what or who's behind the shenanigans. We are right beside Dauber with what know and learn so yeah this is one of the best crafted stories I have read of late.
Valiant Entertainment 2019
Written by Paul Levitz
Illustrated by MJ Kim
Coloured by Ulises Arreola
Lettered by Simon Bowland
Chaos strikes the Big Apple as The Visitor targets a group of revolutionary international scientists!
I was loving the idea behind this last issue and with this one I am over the moon for it. Paul has gone above and beyond what I was expecting of him here and has created something intriguing, mysterious and incredibly intelligent. There are a number of things going on here and they all tie together and yet we are still largely unaware of what roles they play and why things are actually happening. So this is one those times when Ms. Dauber is a character you can relate to as she's the voice of how we all feel reading this. That she is this integral character in the story and she's an integral voice for the reader at the same time is something I really don't think I have seen before. She voices her concerns and her desires to do her job better by trying to get the information that keeps us glued to the story.
I really do believe that with such amazing character development we see here that keeping us all in the dark about what's going on is a feature that really is the hook for the reader. The way that we see the characters act and react to the situations and circumstances they find themselves in is how we see them grow and evolve as people. This allows us to gauge the characters and either trust them or think they are hiding something and that's kind of ominous. The story & plot development here through how the sequence of events and how the reader learns information is done in a very different and unique way. The pacing is great and as it takes you through the pages and reveals the twists and turns along the way it really creates a strong ebb & flow for the book.
A part of me feels like this would make a great procedural show on like Netflix as it has all these elements to it that thrills the reader and frustrates them in equal parts. These are necessary qualities to possess if you are going to engage your audience and boy is the audience, in this case the reader, engaged. Paul is doing something I haven't seen before and I am completely digging it.
The interiors here are quite spectacular. The linework we see is superb and and how the varying weights are being utilised to bring out the attention to detail that w see is utterly marvellous. The style to is this more streamlined, Americanised, manga and that is mixed with the way we see the city and all the modern elements of buildings. The utilisation of the backgrounds and how we see them in the composition in the panels help to bring this depth perception, scale and an overall sense of size and scope to the book. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective inside the panels show this marvellous eye for storytelling. The colour work that we see here is beautifully rendered. I like the way we see the various hues and tones within any given colour utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work.
There really is this array of unique personalities in play here and they all seem to work against one another keeping you guessing at who's doing what or who's behind the shenanigans. We are right beside Dauber with what know and learn so yeah this is one of the best crafted stories I have read of late.
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