Out of Body #4
Aftershock Comics 2021
Written by Peter Milligan
Illustrated by Inaki Miranda
Coloured by Eva De La Cruz
Lettered by Sal Cipriano
Do we really know what others think of us? Psychologist Dan Collins is finding out the hard way. While his body is kept alive by machines, he continues to search for who attacked him and left him hovering between life and death. Problem is, there seems to be a lot of possible culprits! Meanwhile Dan tries to help the restless spirit of suicide Adam Konrad — with potentially lethal results. Astral projections, homunculi, and gardening tips — all this and more in the penultimate issue: OUT OF BODY #4!
What an insanely interesting book this is. If the first page alone doesn’t grab you and make you ask “what the hell” then I’m not sure what that says about you but it stunned me and made me wonder if I was reading the right book. That got me super intrigued actually because it just meant that Peter was taking this in a direction I wasn’t expecting to see thus keeping me on toes with never knowing what to expect next. That’s half the fun of stories like this is not being able to predict what’s coming next and those curveballs are what keeps things fresh and exciting.
I am very much enjoying 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 narration, the dialogue, the character interaction as well as how we see them act and react to the situations and circumstances which they encounter and this really does wonders in fleshing their personalities out. The pacing is excellent and as it takes us through the pages revealing more and more of the story the more involved and intriguing things become.
I like the way that we see this being structured and how the layers within the story continue to emerge, grow, evolve and strengthen. How the layers open up new avenues to be explored while those that are open and explored is extremely well done, think of this like those Russian dolls that are one inside another. This adds some crazy amount of depth, dimension and complexity to the story. How we see everything working together to create the story’s ebb & flow as well as how it moves the story forward is impeccably achieved.
Absolutely adore the interiors here. The linework is phenomenal and how we see the varying weights and techniques being utilised to create the detail work we see throughout the book is exceptional. I am thoroughly and utterly impressed with the way we see the astral projections and how they aren’t using black linework and instead are all rendered in blue and it’s freaking amazing to see how this is being done. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a remarkably talented eye for storytelling. The creativity and imagination that we see throughout the book is sensational and just the overall way we see all the effects of his astral plane stuff is rendered so perfectly.
There are many different aspects of this that we see keep emerging that not only keeps me on my toes but takes multiple read throughs to really absorb it all. Even then it is still possible to miss something until a new issue comes out and you feel compelled to reread the issues before this one just to see if you missed a clue or something. It is a very cerebral story as it is just pure enjoyment and to be able to have it encompass so much is exceptionally well done. This is so well written and has such stellar characterisation and these absolutely dynamic interiors are what makes this so darn enjoyable to read.
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