Ex-Con #5
Written by: Duane Swierzynski
Art by: Keith Burns
Jim Morrison from the 60s rock group The Doors famously coined "This is the end, beautiful friend, the end." His words would fall on the ears of millions and set the backdrop for the famous opening (ironic) of Apocalypse Now. That was the song that was playing through my head the entire time I was reading this issue, because of course, this is the last one. I'm bummed, yes. But better to have read and loved than never read at all. This issue features our main glow reading character finally figuring everything out and leaving a few bodies in his wake while doing so. It's so quick and action packed that you really get through every issue really effortlessly, but you're drained by the end of it. The ending was my only gripe, but only because it felt rushed and because I didn't want it to end.
Mr. Swierzynski deserves an award for this comic, it's literally one of the greatest I've read in the last few years. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that's wrong with it. Everything is tight, the dialogue, the story, the characters, the setting. This comic is a master class in comic book creation. One of the greatest things about his writing is that in a setting like this with a backstory like this and with the characters like this, it seemed like you had to be on the top of your game in order to make all the twists work and all the pieces to fall into place. No problem with him, he did it with ease. And I'm gonna miss it.
Now Burns on the other hand is Frank Miller 2.0 as I've been saying since the beginning of this run. The art fits the piece so well and makes the brighters bright and lows even lower than you can imagine. His control of the setting and the era is just as masterful as Swierzynski's with the added skill of having to draw it. I'm a writer myself and even I can appreciate that a comic book artist deserves most of the credit because it's a visual medium. Because of that I'm gonna say that Burns should be given any and every bit of comic book work for the foreseeable future. It's just too good.
Welp, that's it! One of my favorites! Pick up all 5 issues OR wait until a Paperback comes out (if it does/it should)!
Art by: Keith Burns
Jim Morrison from the 60s rock group The Doors famously coined "This is the end, beautiful friend, the end." His words would fall on the ears of millions and set the backdrop for the famous opening (ironic) of Apocalypse Now. That was the song that was playing through my head the entire time I was reading this issue, because of course, this is the last one. I'm bummed, yes. But better to have read and loved than never read at all. This issue features our main glow reading character finally figuring everything out and leaving a few bodies in his wake while doing so. It's so quick and action packed that you really get through every issue really effortlessly, but you're drained by the end of it. The ending was my only gripe, but only because it felt rushed and because I didn't want it to end.
Mr. Swierzynski deserves an award for this comic, it's literally one of the greatest I've read in the last few years. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that's wrong with it. Everything is tight, the dialogue, the story, the characters, the setting. This comic is a master class in comic book creation. One of the greatest things about his writing is that in a setting like this with a backstory like this and with the characters like this, it seemed like you had to be on the top of your game in order to make all the twists work and all the pieces to fall into place. No problem with him, he did it with ease. And I'm gonna miss it.
Now Burns on the other hand is Frank Miller 2.0 as I've been saying since the beginning of this run. The art fits the piece so well and makes the brighters bright and lows even lower than you can imagine. His control of the setting and the era is just as masterful as Swierzynski's with the added skill of having to draw it. I'm a writer myself and even I can appreciate that a comic book artist deserves most of the credit because it's a visual medium. Because of that I'm gonna say that Burns should be given any and every bit of comic book work for the foreseeable future. It's just too good.
Welp, that's it! One of my favorites! Pick up all 5 issues OR wait until a Paperback comes out (if it does/it should)!
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