Marjorie Finnegan Temporal Criminal #3

Marjorie Finnegan Temporal Criminal #3

AWA Upshot Studios 2021

Written by Garth Ennis

Illustrated by Goran Sudžuka

Coloured by Miroslav MRVA

She's Marjorie Finnegan. She's a temporal criminal. What more do you need to know?

Oh, all right then: all Marj wants to do is race up and down the time-lanes, stealing every shiny-gleamy-pretty-sparkly she can lay her hands on. But her larcenous trail from the Big Bang to the Ninety-fifth Reich has drawn the beady eye of the Temporal PD, whose number one Deputy Marshall is now hard on our heroine's tail-- and taking things extremely personally. Worse still, Marj's worthless creep of an ex and his even scummier partner have seen an angle of their own in all this, and now intend to use her time-tech to change history for their own benefit. Marj's only ally? A guy called Tim. And he's just a head.

I mean come on, what use is just a head...?

I am thoroughly enjoying this series. The more we see the more we learn about Marjorie and what kind of woman she is. There is so much going on with Marjorie this issue and we see her with her sister and it’s rather obvious there is no such thing as sisterly love with these two. Or more accurately Marjorie has no filter, she does what she wants and doesn’t think of or consider there to be consequences and there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that she’s wired all of which conspires to make her one of the most interesting folks to read about.

I am loving 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 exceptionally well. The character development that we see through the dialogue, the character interaction as well as how they act and react to the situations and circumstances which they encounter continually fleshes them out beautifully. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story we’re caught up in this like we’re at a New Orleans Hurricane party.

I like the way that we see this being structured and how the layers within the story continue to grow, evolve and strengthen while new ones emerge. The layers whether they work with the main arc or swirl around it add great depth, dimension and complexity to the story. The way everything works together to create the story’s ebb & flow as well as how it movies he story forward is achieved exceedingly well.

The interiors here are absolutely delightful. The linework that we see is great and how the varying weights are being utilised to create the detail work is extremely nice to see. How we see the backgrounds providing us with depth perception, a sense of scale and the overall sense of size and scope to the story is well done. I do wish we’d seen some man on man action during that scene since it’s well known they did that then. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a very talented eye for storytelling. The colour work is fantastic! How we see the various hues and tones within the colours being utilised to create the shading, highlights and shadow work is really great stuff.

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I like how we see things playing out this issue with the revelations and the twists & turns in the plot. From Harri knowing how to find Marj and then seeing what her ex is up to, we’ve already known that but learning more about who he’s working with that’s a new one on me and I gotta say it’s pretty inspired. As is the dialogue throughout this book, the mouths on these sisters is both shocking and hilarious at the same time. This has some seriously wonderful writing and good solid interiors that will crack you up time and time again.