Kaiju Score #2

Kaiju Score #2

Aftershock Comics 2020

Written by James Patrick

Illustrated by Rem Broo

Lettered by Dave Sharpe

MORE STORY! MORE ART! MORE KAIJU!

Every detail is planned. The players are set. And the craziest and most dangerous heist ever conceived of is a go. But to get here, Marco has had to agree to let another person on the team, and the new guy isn't exactly fitting in. To make matters worse, the truth about another member of the group comes to light. Oh, and there are giant monsters. Is Marco prepared to juggle it all or will the Kaiju Score fail before it starts?

I am loving this series! I will admit I am not the biggest Kaiju fan there is but how we see this incorporated into the story is pretty much damn genius. While the idea of Kaiju are never going out of style and they continue to intrude into popular American culture it is nice to see them embraced and utilised in ways that don’t alway fit into any expectations is superb. Plus this is unlike anything else you will read and while technically it’s a heist story which just happens to have Kaiju in it it’s also one heck of a great comedy of errors.

I am a fan of the way that this is being told. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented impeccably well. How we see this through the characters interactions with one another and how they act and react to one another makes the character development that much stronger. The pacing here is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing the twists & turns along the way we are treated to one heck of an interesting experience.

How we see this being structured and how the layers within the story continue to grow and become more prominent the story within the story really starts to take better shape. The way that we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow is utterly marvellous. I am enjoying seeing just how well this is being told and how much talent that I see being brought to life through the words. The eclectic mix of characters and our understanding of them and how they behave and work within this dynamic has created one of those casts that defy explanation as to why they work so well together.

I am not the biggest fan of the interiors, however, the linework is laid down beautifully and the creativity and imagination in the Kaiju is beautiful to see. That backgrounds are being utilised as they are is a refreshing thing to see as they provide some wonderful depth perception, sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story. The detail work we see is nice and there are a number of moments that are real standouts. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a really solid eye for storytelling. The colour work we see is really nicely rendered. The different techniques we see and how the various hues and tones within the colours are being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work shows a sensational eye for how colour works.

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One of things that Aftershock does better than anyone else is bring us the unexpected on a regular basis. Doesn’t matter the genre or the subject matter the talent they find and showcase, like this book right here, continues to bring us the best of the best storytelling available today.