The four opening panels are an unusual attempt at letting the art tell the whole story, and not too badly executed at that - but they didn't have the guts to sustain it for even a page, so we're back to word balloons by panel five. Still, feels a bit ahead of its time in terms of creativity.
Louie Wonder feels like he was wasted in his puny role here. Between his memorable name and how cool-headed he was throughout his one scene he deserved better (or worse), but no, not even an ironic death of some kind at the Shadow's hands. Pity, very rare to see a villain who deals with the prospect of being entombed in plaster with such aplomb, and hardly any of them ever think to mark Lamont with something to partially foil his invisibility. It didn't work, but credit for trying.
One might reasonably ask why plaster (or paint, or whatever) would be any harder to render unseen than the rest of the Shadow's costume, but that's a mere quibble.
Also unusual how much Margot was written out of this one. Her average page time has been trending downward for a while but this was token at best. Not sure if that's better or worse than the long stretch where she was absolutely going to show off some skin in every story no matter how convoluted the excuse for that happening. It's the old "is bad representation worse than no representation?" argument.
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Odd story in several ways.
ReplyDeleteThe four opening panels are an unusual attempt at letting the art tell the whole story, and not too badly executed at that - but they didn't have the guts to sustain it for even a page, so we're back to word balloons by panel five. Still, feels a bit ahead of its time in terms of creativity.
Louie Wonder feels like he was wasted in his puny role here. Between his memorable name and how cool-headed he was throughout his one scene he deserved better (or worse), but no, not even an ironic death of some kind at the Shadow's hands. Pity, very rare to see a villain who deals with the prospect of being entombed in plaster with such aplomb, and hardly any of them ever think to mark Lamont with something to partially foil his invisibility. It didn't work, but credit for trying.
One might reasonably ask why plaster (or paint, or whatever) would be any harder to render unseen than the rest of the Shadow's costume, but that's a mere quibble.
Also unusual how much Margot was written out of this one. Her average page time has been trending downward for a while but this was token at best. Not sure if that's better or worse than the long stretch where she was absolutely going to show off some skin in every story no matter how convoluted the excuse for that happening. It's the old "is bad representation worse than no representation?" argument.