Review: Conspiracy #3

Gwen Dylan Stacy

6 years ago

There’s an eerie sort of vibe that I get from the opening of Zenescope’s Conspiracy. The story itself by Joe Brusha, Ralph Tedesco, and Dave Frenchini is written by Hans Rodinoff opens to panels with art by J.G. Miranda that wholeheartedly sort of unnerve me. The strange colors that splash are chosen by Leonardo Paciarotti are meant to do explicitly that and they are effective. Something about the whole first few pages feels slightly off kilter. Not so much imbalanced as strange. A dread sets in from the beginning and it only settles its needly little fingers deeper under our skin as we read on.

The Denver Airport, for all its lack of other-wordliness appearance-wise, seems to be slightly..Langolier-ish to me. Senator Muransky arrives with her son from a blanket of stars to the Denver Airport which is, surprisingly quiet. The isolative nature of their conversation is apparent from the lack of interaction with anyone else who might be in frame. Strangely enough, we barely even see any other faces other than the ones front and center and I believe there’s a reason for this. Especially once the mention of Illuminati comes to the center of the otherwise candid conversation.

While one character is ushered off to take something akin to a standarized test version of an initiation, another’s not-so-chance encounter with mysterious woman causes his anger to bubble inside of him and send him off in his own direction in the Airport’s unexplored corridors that eventually lead him to a realization of sorts that confirm that this, indeed, is not our typical sort of place. The dark depths of the airport’s under belly shows us glimpses into a world that holds far darker secrets that anyone would have guessed.

As one would assume, it’s quite dangerous to go traipsing about in the darkness of mystery with little to no idea as to what is really happening. I won’t mention much but I will say that there were a few panels that managed to coax a shocked little gasp from me when I was reading this issue. In my opinion, there is a enough wonderfully written tension to warrant delving further into any upcoming issues. There’s enough trauma to perhaps sway someone from one side of something the other. Couple that with the fact that one of things that occurs is such a high-profile event that outsiders from the family itself might get involved and the tension built there gnaws on you enough to check out this 3.5 out of 5 little Zenescope gem.

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(W) Hans Rodionoff (CA) Leonardo Colapietro