Night Hunters #2

Night Hunters #2

Floating World Comics 2021

Created & Written by Dave Baker

Created & Illustrated by Alexis Ziritt

Lettered by Robert Negrete

How far would you go for your family? Would you enlist in a corrupt police department and slowly sell your body-parts for cyborg replacements so that your aging father can have a roof over his head?

So last issue intrigued me and I really rather enjoyed this even if it isn’t something I would normally gravitate towards. The creators have won me over that’s for darn sure. There is something about this that has this charm, originality and uniqueness to it that captures the readers’ mind and imagination beautifully. There is also this very 80’s underground comix kind of vibe happening here and to see it is absolutely delightful as it pay homage to the past and shows us that there is room for all types of styles of books on stands today. Sometimes I get excited over the weirdest things but I am excited over this one that’s for sure. There is so much going on in this issue that you have to see and experience to understand but the complexity to the storytelling is there and its rather glorious to behold.

I am a huge 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 does a spectacular job in constantly moving everything forward. The character development that we see is magnificent and while Julian, Sombra, cannot speak the clicks he makes are like the language of Groot, only a few can truly understand and yet through his actions we are able to know him much better than I thought we’d be able to. The pacing is superb and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story and the world they live in the more we are outraged, curious and intrigued by what we see.

I very much like the way that we see this being structured so that the layers within the story can continue to grow, evolve and take on a life of their own. There’s something to be said for the way the story weaves around so that we get a bigger picture than by simply focusing on the brothers. Of course how we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow is exceptionally well rendered.

The artwork is interesting to me. I guess I would almost classify it as pop art inspired and how we see the linework being utilised to create the detail in the work we see is pretty sweet stuff. I mean everything we see has this kind expressionism feel to it and we see what we partly see what is intended and partly what we want to see and against all odds it really works out spectacularly well. The composition within the panels with and without backgrounds do a marvellous job in showing depth perception, a sense of scale and that overall sense of size and scope of the story. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show this remarkably talented eye for storytelling. The colour work that we see here is interesting as well. The colours are all solid there are no variations of hues and tones and it relies heavily upon the linework to trick the eye into thinking there is. It is highly impressive to see it being done this way and to see it done to near perfection.

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The concept of the story and how we see it’s execution through the writing and interior artwork is done so beautifully well. This makes me excited because I know i’m not about to see anything close to this anywhere else. This may not be a classic masterpiece but it is a masterful piece of storytelling.