Blue in Green, by Ram V and Anand RK
2020
Image has a house style now, which is tonally very close to the MCU: slick genre work with doses of humor, but usually some sex, swearing, and gore because of Watchmen. This book isn't that.
It's a dour character piece about a depressed jazz musician looking into his family history. It really had me at the first issue, it was a real change of pace for the publisher, and then they put in a tentacle monster. Not every book needs monsters, Image!
That said, Anand RK channels 1980's Bill Sienkiewicz quite well, and it's hard to see where the analogue art ends and the digital art starts. It's a solid package. It's a good book in the moment, but the story makes me think of something in a 1990's music video: in the moment, it makes emotional sense and is interesting, but afterward, it can't hold up to any scrutiny.
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