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Myriad #2

By Hervé St-Louis
June 18, 2005 - 18:44

This is the second issue of Approbation Comics’ anthology. There are four stories and as in the first issue, each ends in a cliffhanger, except Discount Stories, where they tell another tale about an employee working in a discount store. The other stories picked up where they left last issue.

In Chi Sai, readers and villains find out more about the mysterious female vigilante. In Lineage, the conquest of Earth by magical being continues. In The Molly be Damned, two old friends duel to death. In Frail, the young man who witnessed the death of his new girlfriend confronts her murderer.

Each tale benefits from no longer having to establish their premises. In Chi Sai, the story becomes personal for some protagonists, making us care far more about this vigilante. I’d like to know what grudge she holds against her enemies. In Lineage, the story doesn’t go anywhere as there is but fighting. In Molly be Damned, there is a hint that the characters live in a world with much treachery. Great stuff.

Discount stories is establishing itself as the pace setter for all the other installments. Its stories are usually better and stronger in effect. Finally, Frail is the most unsettling of all stories. One never knows where it’s going next. It’s as if a new writer picked up a thread from the past issue and ran with it. I’m not complaining.

In don’t like the pencil artwork in Chi Sai. The linework is good but black and white pencils just look washed up. I’ve noticed that inker Brian Laframboise, whose worked on Molly be Damned and Frail is an overpowering inker. His style, although very solid and clean, subdues the work of his pencillers.

Lineage’s artist, Chris Tsuda tries some complex in panels in sequence tricks that may be too much for him to handle. The characters' animated-like sequence was too stiff. Yet he shows promises with his page layouts. Discount Stories continues to be drawn by the series’ weakest artist. I really wish that artist Steve Doty would improve as he is a big part of the stories he works on. The Discount Stories are great jems to read but fall short visually. He must learn how to draw hands and to approximate fingers’ proportions.

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