REVIEW: The Collector- Unit 731 Chapter Three, Smitten and Frost Bitten.

Survivors of the plague, thrown to the cold, imprisoned and belittled, what more can you ask of the Axis powers?

Roll the credits—

Script- Will Conrad and Rod Monterio
Line Art- Will Conrad
Colors- Marco Lesko
Lettering- Richard Starkings and Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancourt
Cover art- Will Conrad

Cover-

Clever mixture of the iconic grim posturing of a menacing Axis figure, overlooking our protagonist lying on the cutting board. Implicating doom is soon.

Story Line-

Slow and steady. Carefully dropping breadcrumbs as the story progresses towards the inevitable. A lot of questions aroused, with a good portion answered. The tension building with each page, adding more to the suspense. James is in quite the situation, with very few openings remaining if he wishes to achieve his prison break.

Visuals-

Stunning and crisp. Great use of darker tones to maintain the atmosphere, as well as the feel of the period. Found the shading really placed you in the moment- when they were cold, you were cold; when they were alert, you were alert. Brilliant.

Writing-

Concise and informative. Very few wasted words. The characters visual representation was properly displayed in the writing, the one seeming arrogant, spoke arrogant.

Thoughts-

However, this chapter was more of the transitionary setting— with more of an emphasis on clearing out unfinished data, while adding new data —it wasn’t brimming with overly expressive prose, which is fine, just leaves me with less to say though. It was fun, and interesting. Dark and grim, brutal, and unrelenting, as was those of the Axis. It brought a lot of foundation of the oncoming event— a daring escape with stacked opposing odds, leaving the reader with despair. It may have a filler air about it, but it does bring the reader straight to an intersection with several directions, and each direction isn’t ideal, though a choice must be made. Easily lost in this experience is the looming results from the experiments James survived, and what aspect will it bring with the next chapters- will he be discovered?

All in all, 3.5 out of 5.

Good, and serving purpose.